scholarly journals Oblique map of the Solomon Islands, Southwest Pacific

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tau Rho Alpha ◽  
W.A. Austin ◽  
Jim M. Morley
Keyword(s):  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Southwest Pacific

scholarly journals Oscillatory and Propagating Modes of Temperature Variability at the 3–3.5- and 4–4.5-yr Time Scales in the Upper Southwest Pacific Ocean

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil J. Holbrook ◽  
Peter S-L. Chan ◽  
Silvia A. Venegas
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Grid Point ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Southwest Pacific ◽  
Temperature Anomalies ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Gyre Circulation

Abstract This paper investigates oscillatory and propagating patterns of normalized surface and subsurface temperature anomalies (from the seasonal cycle) in the southwest Pacific Ocean using an extended empirical orthogonal function (EEOF) analysis. The temperature data (and errors) are from the Digital Atlas of Southwest Pacific upper Ocean Temperatures (DASPOT). These data are 3 monthly in time (January, April, July, and October), 2° × 2° in space, and 5 m in the vertical to 450-m depths. The temperature anomalies in the EEOF analysis are normalized by the objective mapping temperature errors at each grid point. They are also Butterworth filtered in the 3–7-yr band to examine interannual variations in the temperature field. The oscillating and propagating patterns of the modes are examined across four vertical levels: the surface, and 100-, 250-, and 450-m depths. The dominant mode EEOF (70% of the total variance of the filtered data) oscillates in a 4–4.5-yr quasi-periodic manner that is consistent with El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Anomalies peak first at the surface in the subtropics between New Caledonia and Fiji (centered around 17°S, 177°E), then 6 months later in the tropical far west centered around the Solomon Islands (5°S, 153°–157°E), with a maximum at the base of the mixed layer (100 m) and upper thermocline (250 m), and then eastward in the northeast of the southwest Pacific region (0°–10°S, 160°E–180°). Mode 2 (25% variance of the filtered data) has a periodicity of 3–3.5 yr, with centers of action in all four vertical levels. The mode-2 patterns are consistent with variations in the subtropical gyre circulation, including the East Australian Current and its separation, and are continuous with the Tasman Front. Two spatial dipoles are apparent: (i) one in sea surface temperature (SST) at about 5°S, straddling west–east either side of the Solomon Islands, consistent with the classic Pacific-wide ENSO SST anomaly mode, and (ii) a subsurface dipole pattern, with centers in the Solomon Islands region at 100- and 250-m depths, and the western Tasman Sea (27°–33°S, 157°–161°E) at 250- and 450-m depths, consistent with dynamic changes in the gyre intensity.

Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1417 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Distribution Range ◽  
Southwest Pacific ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Deep Waters ◽  
Three New Species

Sixty-six species of the genus Munidopsis have been studied using specimens collected during numerous French expeditions carried out in the last decades in the deep-waters of the southwest Indian and southwest Pacific Oceans, between 140 and 4400 m. Twenty-five new species are described, and the diagnoses and illustrations of some relatively rare species (M. africana, M. debilis, M. lenzii, M. moresbyi, M. orcina, M. sinclairi, M. stylirostris and M. wardeni) are provided. The reestablishment of the genus Galacantha is proposed, including the descriptions/diagnoses and a key to all species. The genus contains nine species, including three new species (G. bellis, G. diomedeae, G. quiquei n. sp., G. rostrata, G. spinosa, G. subrostrata n. sp., G. subspinosa n. sp., G. trachynotus and G. valdiviae). The number of species collected by station is very small (usually one species), probably related to their low densities. However, in some samples, as many as five species have been found. The highest number of species have been observed in the Banda Sea (Indonesia) and Solomon Islands. The new records of some species greatly extend the previously known distribution range of the species.

A morphological study of the Anopheles punctulatus group (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Solomon Islands, with a description of Anopheles (Cellia) irenicus Schmidt, sp.n.

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.R. Schmidt ◽  
D.H. Foley ◽  
H. Bugoro ◽  
J.H. Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Lymphatic Filariasis ◽  
Morphological Study ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Fourth Instar ◽  
Morphological Markers ◽  
Southwest Pacific ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
Anopheles Punctulatus

AbstractA description of Anopheles (Cellia) irenicus Schmidt, sp.n. (formerly A. farauti No. 7) is provided. This species is one of six recorded from the Solomon Islands within the A. punctulatus group, which contains the major vectors of the causative agents of malaria and lymphatic filariasis in the southwest Pacific. Morphological markers are described for adult females, fourth-instar larvae and pupae that identify most specimens of A. irenicus. Keys are presented to distinguish members of the A. punctulatus group in the Solomon Islands.

Forgotten Voices in the Forgotten Conflict

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Evans
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Southwest Pacific ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Pacific State ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Children’S Voices

In the late 1990s, the Southwest Pacific state of Solomon Islands experienced a prolonged civil conflict. This had a profound, although largely undocumented, impact on children. Children were key actors in the fighting that transpired, both as combatants and as victims. This article situates Solomon Islands’ children within the hostilities that took place, analysing the efforts that have been made to incorporate their views in post-conflict peacebuilding endeavours. Drawing on comparative literature, it is contended that there is an emerging international orthodoxy around children’s participation in peacebuilding efforts. A handful of relevant post-conflict, child-centred activities in Solomon Islands are analysed and critiqued – both from the perspective of incorporating children’s voices into programming efforts and from their position as beneficiaries.

scholarly journals Multimodal language use in Savosavo

Pragmatics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Bressem ◽  
Nicole Stein ◽  
Claudia Wegener
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Language Documentation ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Southwest Pacific ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Endangered Language ◽  
First Results ◽  
Multimodal Language ◽  
Manual Mode

Abstract Departing from a short overview on pragmatic gestures specialized for the expression of refusal and negation, the article presents first results of a study on those gestures in Savosavo, a Papuan language spoken in the Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. The paper focuses on two partly conventionalized gestures (sweeping and holding away) and shows that speakers of Savosavo use the gestures in a very similar way as speakers of German, English or French, for example. The article shows how a linguistic and semiotic analysis might serve to uncover proto-morpho-semantic structures in a manual mode of communication and contributes to a better understanding of the conventional nature and cross-linguistic distribution of gestures. Moreover, by examining partly conventionalized gestures in a small, little known and endangered language, it presents a particular approach to the analysis of multimodality in the field of language documentation.

scholarly journals Oligocene divergence of frogmouth birds (Podargidae) across Wallace's Line

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 20200040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Oliver ◽  
Holly Heiniger ◽  
Andrew F. Hugall ◽  
Leo Joseph ◽  
Kieren J. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Mitochondrial Genomes ◽  
Island Arcs ◽  
Vertebrate Lineage ◽  
Southwest Pacific ◽  
Biotic Differentiation ◽  
Wallace’S Line

Wallace's Line demarcates the transition between the differentiated regional faunas of Asia and Australia. However, while patterns of biotic differentiation across these two continental landmasses and the intervening island groups (Wallacea) have been extensively studied, patterns of long-term dispersal and diversification across this region are less well understood. Frogmouths (Aves: Podargidae) are a relictual family of large nocturnal birds represented by three extant genera occurring, respectively, in Asia, ‘Sahul’ (Australia and New Guinea) and the Solomon Islands, thus spanning Wallace's Line. We used new mitochondrial genomes from each of the extant frogmouth genera to estimate the timeline of frogmouth evolution and dispersal across Wallace's Line. Our results suggest that the three genera diverged and dispersed during the mid-Cenozoic between approximately 30 and 40 Mya. These divergences are among the oldest inferred for any trans-Wallacean vertebrate lineage. In addition, our results reveal that the monotypic Solomons frogmouth ( Rigidipenna inexpectata ) is one of the most phylogenetically divergent endemic bird lineages in the southwest Pacific. We suggest that the contemporary distribution of exceptionally deep divergences among extant frogmouth lineages may be explained by colonization of, and subsequent long-term persistence on, island arcs in the southwest Pacific during the Oligocene. These island arcs may have provided a pathway for biotic dispersal out of both Asia and Australia that preceded the formation of extensive emergent landmasses in Wallacea by at least 10 million years.

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