2010-05-08
- The mission of the Marine Studies Programme is to:
- Provide the necessary opportunities … to understand, conserve, develop, manage, and utilize living and non-living resources;
- Provide opportunities for research, education, training and employment in the marine sector;
- Provide for collaboration between USP, island nations, regional and international bodies.
Source: USP Marine Studies Programme
Professor Leon Zahn
- “We are developing community-based management; we should be developing techniques, empowering students.
- It is a long-term commitment, 1-2 years is not enough; sometimes 6 years, 20 years, …”
- Prof. Leon Zahn has extensive field survey experience in Samoa and Fiji.
- The Research Institute for Subtropics in Okinawa works with Prof. Leon Zahn in their fieldwork in Fiji.
Professor Leon Zahn is Professor of Marine Studies and Coordinator, Marine Studies Programme
Professor Joeli Veitayaki
- Joeli recommends Gau Island as fieldwork site which lies East of Viti Levu, the main island. The island is usually covered by thick cloud (our Landsat Picture proves it) which creates cooler and more moist environment, providiing habitat to creatures that are extinct elsewhere.
- Joeli himself is from Gau Island. The community is unspoiled because of relatively un-accessible location.
Prof. Joeli Veitayaki is Co-ordinator, Marine Affairs and Senior Lecturer at Marine Studies Program.
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- 2005 marks the starts of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, a WSSD action plan.
- UNU/IAS, working with UNESCO, designated several RCEs around the world, andFiji is the Pacific site.
- UNU and USP exchanged MOU for mutual collaboration.
Keio Univ. Uno Lab. has conducted field surveys in the South Pacific, including Fiji, Samoa, and Vanuatu starting in 2004.
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- “We are in a process of restructuring; we are creating 4 new faculties;
one is on Business and Economics;
one is in Arts and Law;
one on Science and Technology;
- Most interesting from our perspective is Islands and Oceans. We are bringing together all marine scientists, enviromentalists, land management people, people interested in sustainable development, geographers, …
- We are at USP devoting lot of attention in the further enhancement of distance learning capabilities, very significant ICT operation.”
Prof. Anthony Tarr is Vice Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific.
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DR.RANDY THAMAN
Professor,Pacific Islands Biogeography，University of South Pacific,Suva,Fiji Islands.
Source: University of Hawaii
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Flight Photos
Getting from Nadi to Suva
Flying over Fiji; Nadi side (West) tends to be dry while Suva side (East) is rainy due to Trade Wind
Landing at Suva
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2010-01-30
- University of the South (USP) is located in Suva, Fiji.
- “USP is the premier provider of tertiary education the Pacific Region. Established in 1968, the University serves 12 Member Countries
- Cook Islands,
- Fiji Islands *,
- Kiribati,
- Marshall Islands,
- Nauru,
- Niue,
- Samoa*,
- Solomon Islands,
- Tokelau,
- Tonga,
- Tuvalu, and
- Vanuatu*.”
(* marks the sites of campuses)
USP Campuses
USP Centres 
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- "Indigenous people look at education and learning in a different way from school system; they introduced schools in the Pacific. So there are a lot of gaps between the expectation of our traditional education and the school,and this is causing a lot of our students to fail.
- Part of that has to do with the language.
- It took us a long time for our teachers to understand ‘environment’ from the Pacific perspective. It is an inclusive concept; it includes people and culture,not only just different ecosystems."
Prof. Konai Helu Thaman is Professor of Pacific Education and Culture, UNESCO Chair in Teacher Education & Culture, Department of Education and Psychology.
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- The PRIDE Project seeks to improve the quality of basic education in the 15 Pacific nations. In addition to 12 that support USP, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Federal States of Micronesia are the members.
- The PRIDE Project defines basic education as all education provisions for children and youth except higher education, and covers both the formal and non-formal sectors.
- The PRIDE Project is jointly funded by the European Union and New Zealand AID.
Prof. Bob Teasdale is Project Director of the PRIDE: Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of Basic Education.
- PRIDE benchmarks:
Cultural and national identity;
Skills for life and works in a global world;
Alignment with National Development Plan and regional and international conventions;
Access and equity for students with special needs;
Partnership with communities and stakeholders;
A holistic approach to basic education;
Realistic financial costing;
Use of data in educational planning;
Effective capacity building for all educational personnel;
Framework for monitoring and evaluation
Source: USP PRIDE Project
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“PACE-SD was established in 2001 in recognition of the need for USP to develop a more focussed and collaborative approach to environmental education, research, consultancy and capacity building in the Pacific Region.” Prof. Kanayathu KOshy is the Director.
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- “Pacific people are oral; they talk, and we have to respond to cultural needs of the people.
- Our community level project work is to work with them to know their problems and needs.
- Information has to come at the right time, it has to be targeted.
- They want to know where to set up a Marine Protected Area; we go in, help them pick the best place.”
Prof. William (Bill) Aalbersberg is Director, Institute of Applied Sciences.
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- “Island-based and island-aware environmental managers need to be empowered with an understanding of the special attributes of island environments and the ability to manage them effectively.” “Island environments have been generally misunderstood, misinterpreted, and mismanaged. The main reason is that they have been interpreted for management purposes largely by continent-trained observers” (Nunn, “Through a Mist on the Ocean”.)
- Paddy’s focus is on climate change, particularly in the Pacific. He has a very long perspectives and the author of Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin (1994) and
Ocean Islands (1994).
Prof. Patrick (Paddy) Nunn belongs to Department of Geography, School of Social and Economic Development.
Books
18,000 years ago: sea level was some 120-150 meters lower than it is today. Islands were much larger.
The present situation: Sea-level rise has caused islands to disappear or become smaller.
Ocean surface circulation
Atmospheric circulation
Normal El Nino
Source: Nunn, Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin
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