Team & partners
A collaboration between researchers in Australia and French Polynesia, built on more than a decade of shared fieldwork.
Project leadership
The team
Prof. Jodie Rummer
James Cook University
Project co-lead · scientific lead
Marine biologist specialising in fish physiology and conservation; leads the Physioshark program and RummerLab at JCU.
Dr Clémentine Séguigne
IREMP
Project co-lead · coordination
Marine scientist coordinating the project in French Polynesia, with deep experience in community science and shark monitoring.
Dr Serge Planes
CNRS
Long-term datasets · field infrastructure
Leads decades of reef research in French Polynesia, contributing long-term monitoring data and scientific leadership.
Fenua FINdex also stands on the work of the students, field teams and community observers who built and curated the photo-ID catalogue across many seasons in Mo'orea.
Institutions
Partners & supporters
James Cook University
Scientific lead institution — home of RummerLab and the Physioshark program.
IREMP
Institut de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer en Polynésie — project coordination in French Polynesia.
CNRS
French national research centre — long-term datasets and French Polynesian field infrastructure.
Physioshark Project
The parent research program: physiological and ecological research on Mo'orea's shark nurseries since 2013.
RummerLab
Prof. Jodie Rummer's research group at James Cook University.
Funding
Fenua FINdex is supported by the IUCN BESTLIFE2030 programme (project FP-8040), co-funded by the European Union. BESTLIFE2030 backs locally driven biodiversity conservation across Europe's Overseas Countries and Territories.