🌿 #WorldEnvironmentalHealthDay aims to raise awareness of the importance of a healthy environment for the well-being of societies and of the environmental challenges that affect our health. ℹ️ At #PacificPeopleForest, we explore this connection from a historical perspective.

🌊 #WorldMaritimeDay 👉 For the societies of the #Pacific, the #sea has been much more than a means of transport. It has connected territories, people and cultures, and has played a vital role in providing food, facilitating the exchange of resources and transforming landscapes. #PacificPeopleForest

📍At the southern tip of #Rota lies #Taipingot, a limestone formation rising approximately 143 metres above sea level. ℹ️For #PacificPeopleForest, Taipingot is a particularly significant site, very well preserved, that shows a different aspect of the #Chamorro life. 📸By @aberron.bsky.social for #PPF

ℹ️Between 2022 and 2025 continuous archaeological research have led to progress in the documentation and preservation of the heritage of #Rota. 🔎The results expanded our understanding of the distribution of Rota’s archaeological heritage. pacificpeopleforest.csic.es/background #PacificPeopleForest

✈️Conducting fieldwork on a remote island presents a significant logistical challenge. ℹ️ These logistical constraints are a daily reality of archaeological fieldwork. But they also raise another important question: the environmental cost of doing research in such remote places. #PacificPeopleForest

📸🌿 These images show Timothy Utteridge working in the field during the June 2026 campaign, observing, documenting and studying the #plants that later featured in his publications. ℹ️ A brief behind-the-scenes look at the fieldwork that forms part of our project. #PacificPeopleForest

💧 The work of #PacificPeopleForest: archaeobotanical flotation 🌱 In #archaeology, a significant proportion of the information is reconstructed from vegetal remains that are barely visible to the naked eye. 👌To recover them we use, amongst other techniques, archaeobotanical #flotation.

🌾 #WorldAgricultureDay 👉 At #PacificPeopleForest, we study how communities on the #Pacificislands have used and transformed their environments over time. Through #archaeology, #history and #botany, we investigate food production practices and their relationship with changes in the island. 📸 #Taro.

🗓️ 5 September: #InternationalDayofIndigenousWomen. ℹ️ At #PacificPeopleForest, this recognition prompts us to highlight the #Chamorro women, whose communities have inhabited the #MarianaIslands for millennia and form an essential part of the history of #Rota. 📸 A Chamorro woman in #Guam (1945)

🧪 The work of #PPF: #Pottery Analysis ℹ️ Eduy Urbina (in the first image taking measurements with the naked eye) is analysing pottery from #Rota to explore how it relates to existing pottery typologies. @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

🌿 #PacificPeopleForest is a research project exploring the impact of European colonisation on the Pacific islands during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on the island of #Rota. We invite you to visit the site and follow the progress of this exciting project. 🔗 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es

🐳 30 August: #InternationalWhaleSharkDay. ℹ️ Although #PacificPeopleForest focuses its research on the environmental and human history of #Rota, understanding island ecosystems means looking beyond the mainland. In the #PacificIslands, the forest and the ocean form part of the same system.

🌊 Video recorded in 2022 during a snorkeling visit to the coral reef in the northwestern area of #Rota. 🤿 Swimming through this underwater landscape is #AlexChevalier (@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social), whose work contributes to advancing our understanding of #marineecosystems. #PacificPeopleForest

🌿Nature reserves in Rota and the #CNMI 🏝️The island of #Rota is home to an extensive network of terrestrial and marine protected areas managed by the CNMI. @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands

💡How did the communities that inhabited the #MarianaIslands produce their food before the arrival of Europeans? This is one of the questions guiding #PacificPeopleForest’s research. pacificpeopleforest.csic.es @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

[PART 2] 🇲🇵 🌿 Three plants from the #MarianaIslands, by Timothy Utteridge. 🔗 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #Rota

[PART 1] 🇲🇵 🌿 Three plants from the Mariana Islands, by Timothy Utteridge. 🔗 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands #Rota

🗓️ 18 August: #InternationalArchaeologyDay. 📍 At #PacificPeopleForest, #archaeology is an essential tool for reconstructing the history of #Rota and understanding how #Chamorro communities interacted with their environment over the centuries. #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands #Rota

[PART 2]⚠️What is life like after a #naturaldisaster? Today we’re sharing the account of Adrián García Rojo, a member of our team, who tells us how Rota is recovering in the wake of two devastating #supertyphoons in the last 3 months. 📸 Adrián García Rojo / Jesús García Sánchez #PacificPeopleForest

[PART 1]⚠️What is life like after a #naturaldisaster? Today we’re sharing the account of Adrián García Rojo, a member of our team, who tells us how #Rota is recovering in the wake of two devastating #supertyphoons in the last 3 months. 📸Adrián García Rojo / Jesús García Sánchez #PacificPeopleForest

💡What can the remains of a galleon tell us about the environmental history of the #Pacific? ⚓At #PacificPeopleForest, we study precisely this complex web of relationships between societies, landscapes and ecosystems.  To know more👉 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands #Rota

🗺️ How did the indigenous peoples of the #PacificIslands chart the ocean? 🛶 For centuries, navigators from the #MarshallIslands developed what are known as ‘stick charts’, one of the most unique forms of cartography in history.  🔗 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es 📸 thenonist.com #PacificPeopleForest

🗓️9 August: International Day of the World’s #IndigenousPeoples. ℹ️At #PacificPeopleForest, this date holds special significance. Our project is based in #Rota (#NorthernMarianaIslands), home to the #Chamorro people, the indigenous people of the #MarianaIslands. 📸 Ryuzo Torii (1870-1953) (Wikipedia)

🆘The island of #Rota needs our help. ℹ️Our team at #PacificPeopleForest continues to work on the ground following the devastating passage of Super Typhoon #Bavi. 👉We invite you to support From Luta for Luta, an organisation that is coordinating aid to meet the most urgent needs. 🔗 lnkd.in/gUTt52bQ

🌀 Super #Typhoon #Bavi: the experience of Francesco Susca, one of the PhD students at #PacificPeopleForest. 📸 Day 1: the shelter. Day 2: the super typhoon comes. Day 3: the destruction. (Pictures by Francesco Susca) Day 3: the last day at the shelter. (Picture by Ethel Siriban's daughter). #Rota

ℹ️1 of the key steps in studying the impact of #colonization in the #MarianaIslands is understanding the long history of human occupation. 👉Analysing material culture from the sequence of human habitation is an important aspect, undertaken by Eduy Urbina's dissertation within #PacifidPeopleForest.

🌳 The Forest Inventory and Analysis (#FIA) team has launched a new decennial forest inventory assessment campaign on #Rota. ℹ️ This programme provides insights into how the #forests are changing. For more info: PNW-FIA Pacific Islands Database 🔗 https://acortar.link/FzbuMZ #PacificPeopleForest

🌏Meet the team! 📍Jesús García Sánchez has participated in several field campaigns within #NAOProject. He's a member of #PacificPeopleForest and has led the field survey in '26 with Adrian García Rojo and Project PI María Cruz Berrocal. More in the ‘Team’ section of our website👉 acortar.link/seCyr4

🎼 The history of the #MarianaIslands is not only preserved in #archaeological sites or #historical archives. It also lives on in their #language, #music and #traditions. 🇲🇵 One of the leading figures in this cultural preservation is Johnny Sablan, pioneer of contemporary #Chamorro music. 📸guampedia

🐋23 July: #WorldWhaleandDolphinDay 🐬These animals play a key role in the functioning of #marineecosystems and form part of the natural and cultural heritage of many #Pacific communities, where they have featured in stories, traditions and ways of understanding the environment. #PacificPeopleForest