Aswani Canela This is Me

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1. 1. ENN: Environmental News Network [[Affiliate News 385]]

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   Published on: 2/7/2005   Last Visited: 2/8/2005

   Through education and collaboration, Aswani Canela aims over the next three years to establish a network of Marine Protected Areas designed to preserve vital resources and vulnerable species such as coconut crabs, sea turtles, and dugongs (sea cows) in the Solomon Islands, which are located east of Papua New Guinea.
   
   One of only five international awardees this year, Aswani Canela is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born in Spain, Aswani Canela speaks six languages, including two languages native to the Solomon Islands, and he is an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland. Aswani Canela holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a B.A. in Marine Affairs and Anthropology from the University of Miami.