The Gump Station is host to a variety of marine and terrestrial projects involving numerous institutions, researchers and interests. Browse a selected listing of these research projects below.
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| Agricultural Applications of CENS ESS Technology |
Understanding the relationship between ecological processes and environmental conditions requires parallel research in a variety of ecosystems and habitat types. With this goal in mind,... |
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| Baseline Study on Climate Change in French Polynesia |
Important documents:... |
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| Biological Control of Glassy-winged Sharpshooter - Lutte Biologique contre la Cicadelle Pisseuse |
The glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) Homalodisca vitripennis - a major insect pest of agricultural, ornamental, and native plants - invaded Tahiti in 1999 and spread rapidly to... |
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| Biotic Survey and Inventory of French Polynesian Terrestrial Arthropods |
This project surveys the arthropod fauna of the high islands of French Polynesia, with the goals to identify, database, and map, the diversity of species, both endemic and invasive.... |
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| Design for Sustainable Communities 2009 |
This course at UC Berkeley provides conceptual and hands-on experience in the design and implementation of innovative products or processes for improving the sustainability of resource-... |
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| Moorea Biocode Project |
Based at the UC Berkeley Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station and France's CNRS-EPHE Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement (CRIOBE), the Moorea... |
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| Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research site |
The science themes that form the nucleus of the Moorea Coral Reef LTER program include the: (1) biological bases for variation in ecological performance of stony corals (the foundational... |
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| National Geographic International Ecostations |
National Geographic's "International Ecostations" grant (PI: Neil Davies) provides support for all programs at the Gump Station by contributing to the station's operating fund. It... |
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| Population Regulation of Coral Reef Fishes |
Populations of reef fish are widely believed to be limited by availability of larvalrecruits, not by density dependent processes operating during and after settlement ofyoung stages in... |