UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Michael Edward Huber, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography graduate student, conducts experiments in his lab. His 1983 Thesis (Ph.D.) was titled: Ethology and population biology of Trapezia, a xanthid crab symbiotic with reef corals : with special reference to territoriality and speciation. In 1988, Huber moved to the University of Papua New Guinea to study and dive on some of the world's most spectacular coral reefs. He served as Head of the University's marine research station on Motupore Island, and became increasingly interested in marine environmental science, especially with regard to reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, and other tropical systems. This interest continued to grow during four years as Director of a marine research station on the Great Barrier Reef. November 3, 1980

Gardening: vegetation is burned to prepare ground for garden near the Cooks' house, Kwiop

Fainjur: garden with taro plants and person carrying netbag

Gardening: woman with sugarcane and taro plants

Group of children

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: men make stylized aggressive charge in front of government rest house, near clan boundary

Large men's house on shore, with wood walkway, Gulf Province

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: man addresses ancestors before clubbing pig

European man with boys

Edwin Cook's first house in Kwiop: Nancy Cook with pet cockatoo, Marilyn

Tabibuga: aerial view

Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: stakes, bamboo, cordyline and aglaonema leaves for ritual