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James Peter TERRY (テリ
13th January 1967
40BritishMarried
2 sons (1 and 3 years old)ジェームス)

53B Catalina Drive, USP Campus, Suva, Fiji Islands
School of Geography, Faculty of Islands and Oceans,
The University of the South Pacific, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji Islands
Tel: +679 323-2549, Fax: +679 323-1509
terry_j@usp.ac.fj or james.terry@usp.ac.fj

Education
September 1978 – June 1985
September 1985 – June 1992

Southend-on-Sea High School for Boys, Essex, England, UK
University of Wales, Swansea, Wales, UK

Qualifications
School• June 1983
•June 1985

GCE O-Levels (age 16, high school graduating exams)
10 subjects; school prize for scoring best O-Level results in 1983
GCE A-Levels (age 18, for university entrance)
Geography, Physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics

University Degree Studies
BSc (First Class Honours) in Geography, Graduated in July 1988
Awarded the Sir Dudley Stamp prize for best Geography Honours Thesis in 1988
Minor subjects in Mathematics and Geology•••

Doctoral Thesis• PhD in Geography, Graduated in July 1992
• Thesis title and focus:“Rainsplash detachment and soil erosion in the Águeda Basin, Portugal: the effects of forest fires and land
management changes”
This research formed an integral component of a 3-year European Union funded programme, undertaken
jointly by scientists from Swansea University and the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. Located in forested
catchments of northern Portugal, the investigation focused on: (i) hillslope and stream hydrology, (ii) soil andgeomorphological processes and (iii) the effects of wildfires and changing forestry management practices onland degradation in a wet mediterranean environment.

Employment History (reverse chronological order)
Current

Associate Professor in Geography
The University of the South Pacific (USP), Fiji

2003 – 2006

Head of Geography Department (Head of School in 2006)
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The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
2003 – 2004

Associate Professor, Research Centre for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University,
Japan (鹿児島大学多島圏研究センター)

1996 – 2003

Senior Lecturer: 2001 – 2003
Lecturer:
1996 – 2001
Department of Geography, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji

1995

Environmental Officer and Consultant Hydrologist
Department of Agriculture, Western Australia

1994

Sabbatical, 1 year visiting Australian universities

1992 – 1993
UK

Tutor (full-time academic post), Department of Geography, University of Exeter,

Responsibilities as Head of School, School of Geography(3½ year term until July 2006)
My workload as HoS Geography comprised at least all of the following in no special order:• Leading and running the Geography Department (which then became the School of Geography) comprising

15 full-time staff in Fiji and elsewhere in the Pacific, 2 Graduate Assistants, many part-time tutors), 280+
students in first year, Geography GIS Unit and Map Library.
• Responsible for the department offering programmes in Geography, Geospatial Science, EnvironmentalStudies, Population Studies.
• Geography Education development at USP.
• Faculty Management Team for the Faculty of Islands and Oceans.
• Administration within USP.
• Securing outside funding for Geography school development.
• Class lecturing, fieldtrip and laboratory teaching, assignment marking.
• Undergraduate and postgraduate course writing.
• Conducting summer schools in the Pacific region.
• Student counselling and guidance.
• Orienting new Geography academic staff and assigning workloads to Geography staff.
• Leading Geography school development, through e.g. writing position papers on policy and planning
matters, e.g. restructuring, research.
• Scientific research and publication of scientific papers for international and local journals and conferences.
• Receiving visitors and guest lectures to visiting groups from universities worldwide.
• Raising the profile of USP through representation at international meetings, and member on internationalorganisations and working groups.
• Community involvement and outreach.
• Building academic exchanges between USP Geography and other universities within and outside thePacific region (Univ. of Sydney, Australia and Univ. of Laval, Canada).
• Team leader of environmental consulting projects.
• Editing and reviewing papers for international and regional journals.

Research Experience
Main areas of expertise• hydrology and geomorphology• climatic hazards - tropical cyclones, El Niño, floods, droughts, wildfires• physical geography of tropical Pacific islands; island karst• soil erosion and land degradation processes; environmental water quality2Current and recent research projects• Tropical cyclones − characteristics, behaviour and impacts on island environments.
• Pacific island river systems − hydrology, sediment transport processes and floodplain deposition in Fiji,Samoa, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands (with 1. the University of Guelph, Canada, 2. Dept. of Physics, USP
and 3. the Fiji Public Works Dept.).
• ENSO and climate variability – links with drought and surface water resources (with the Fiji
Meteorological Service).
• Karst landforms on Niue Island (South Pacific), and Yoron (Japan) (with the Research Center for the PacificIslands, Kagoshima University).
• Volcanic island drainage patterns and fluvial geomorphology (with the Australian National University,Canberra)• Cæsium-137 studies in soils and sediments (with the Dept. of Physics, USP)
• Volcanic, seismic and mass movement hazards on Kadavu Island, Fiji (with the Institute of NaturalResources, Massey University, N.Z.)• Soil erosion – assessing the economic costs of ginger cultivation in Fiji (with MAFF Fiji)

Lecturing Experience
A. Lecturer and course coordinator for the following courses:
Undergraduate courses
1. Introduction to Physical Geography (100-level, first year)
Structure of the Earth
Hydrology
Pedology

Climatology
Geomorphology
Biogeography

2. The Physical Environment: land, water and climate (200-level, second year)
Hillslope and stream hydrology
Climatic hazards

Tropical, volcanic and limestone geomorphology
Statistical methods and quantitative techniques

3. Pacific Geoscience (300-level, third year)
Definition, distribution andclassification of islands
Human impacts on islands
Coral reefs and atolls
Sea-level change

Island climates and climate change
Formation of islands − plate tectonics and volcanism
Island landscapes − volcanic, limestone and atoll islands
Island ecosystems and biodiversity

Postgraduate courses / Thesis supervision
1. Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (team taught)
Pacific climate change and variability
Water Resources on Islands
Mitigation and Adaptation techniques

2. Tropical Geomorphology (400-level postgraduate)
Landforms, Landscapes and Processes, Climatic geomorphology,Volcanic, Carbonate and Atoll Geomorphology

3. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) (team taught)
4. Geographical Research Methods (team taught)
Paradigms, Research Methods, Statistical Techniques

5. PhD, MSc and MA thesis supervision in geography, environmental science and physics.
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B. Experience with different delivery modes (Distance and Flexible Learning - DFL)
1. Face-to-Face courses (Fiji on-campus, summer cchools in Tonga and the Marshall Islands, tutorialvisits in Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tonga, Niue, Samoa, Nauru and Fiji)
2. Video and audio-broadcast lectures
3. Print-mode courses in the South Pacific region (written courses for DFL)
4. Field classes in Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati, Tonga and Vanuatu

Consulting Experience
Coastal erosion survey
Naitauba Island, northern Lau Islands, Fiji. Prepared for the Naitauba Trust, June 2002.

Estuary and near-shore sediment drift survey
Component of EIA for Nadi River Dredging Project. Prepared for the Fiji Government Public Works Dept.
Consultant on 2-person team, April - August 2001.

Lagoon sedimentation, marine ecosystem health and coastal erosion assessment
Shangri-La Fijian Resort, Yanuca Island, Sigatoka, Fiji. Project leader of 3 senior USP academic staff and 5
student assistants, February - August 2001.

Land and water impacts assessment for sustainable forestry
Nakavu, Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Prepared for German Pacific Forestry Programme, June 1999.

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for FijiFiji country team member for water resources evaluation. Prepared for Fiji Government Department ofEnvironment, 1999

National Pollutant Inventory of Australia
Report on the current water research programmes of government agencies, academic institutions and NGOsin the south west high rainfall region of Western Australia. Prepared for Western Australia State
Government and the Commonwealth Government. June - November 1995.

Environmental water quality in Western Australia
Report prepared for the Western Australian State Government, March - June 1995.

Advisor Experience
Advisor to the National Inception Meeting of the Fiji Ministry of Health, WHO, UNDP and Fiji
School of Medicine project “Piloting Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Human Health”, 13-14th
July 2006, Suva.
• Advisor to the Red Cross Regional Disaster Management Meeting, Climate Change Programme, 2930th May 2006, Nadi.
• Advisor to Ministry of Tourism Stakeholder Workshop on “Adaptation to Climate Change in theTourism Sector in the Fiji Islands”, 2nd-4th May 2006, with the United Nations World Tourism
Organisation and the United Nations Environment Programme, Suva.
•Interests and Activities
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President 2007, Parents and Teachers Association, USP Educare Centre (pre-school education)
Foreign languages (Japanese, French, German)
Boating, watersports, fishing, snorkelling, member of the Royal Suva Yacht Club
Travel and exploration,
Restoring classic British motorcars

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Journal Editorship
South Pacific Journal of Natural Science (Editor-in-Chief for 2004 and 2006, Editorial Board 2002 present)• Journal of Pacific Studies (Editorial Board 1999-2002)• South Pacific Studies (Editorial Board 2005 - present)•Professional Membership
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Japanese Geomorphological Union
International Association of Geomorphologists - Pacific Islands Representative
International Association of Hydrological Science
Asia Oceania Geoscience Society

Referees
Professor Randy Thaman
School of Geography
University of the South PacificPrivate Mail Bag
Suva
FIJI ISLANDSProfessor Ray Kostaschuk
Department of Geography
University of Guelph
GuelphOntario, N1G 2W1
CANADA

Professor Patrick Nunn
School of Geography
University of the South PacificPrivate Mail Bag
Suva
FIJI ISLANDS

tel: +679 323-2993
fax: +679 323-1509
email: thaman_r@usp.ac.fj

tel: +519 824-4120
fax: +519 837-2940
email: rkostasc@uoguelph.ca

tel: +679 323-2946
fax: +679 323-1509
email: nunn_p@usp.ac.fj

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