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Establishing a Geo/ Earthcache Program for Global Environmental Change Education and Awareness in the South Pacific

Establishing a Geo/ Earthcache Program for Global Environmental Change Education and Awareness in the South Pacific. John Lowry, University of the South Pacific With funding from the United States Embassy Pacific Island Fund for Small Development Grants . What is Geocaching ?.

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Establishing a Geo/ Earthcache Program for Global Environmental Change Education and Awareness in the South Pacific

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  1. Establishing a Geo/EarthcacheProgram for Global Environmental Change Education and Awareness in the South Pacific John Lowry, University of the South Pacific With funding from the United States Embassy Pacific Island Fund for Small Development Grants

  2. What is Geocaching?

  3. What is Earthcaching?

  4. Environmental Change EarthCaches • Student proposalsfor Earthcache project • Global environmental change theme • Work on projects over school break • USP provides: • GPS receiver • Digital camera • Travel and accommodation funds • Advising/instruction • Students provide: • Ideas & enthusiasm • Leg-work

  5. 16 Students representing eight Pacific Island Countries

  6. Flooding on Cautata Coast, FijiUnaisiLogavatu • Interviewed village “Old Timers”: • Unpredictable weather/ more rain • More sediment from the river • Deep water seashells nearer to shore

  7. Rising Sea Level at Sapwuafik Atoll, FSMSantiago Joab Jr.

  8. Human Impacts on Environment Qoma Island, FijiMereseiniSeninuquanuqa • Rubbish disposal • Turtle fishing • Reef Gleaning

  9. Rising Sea Levels at Akhamb Island, VanuatuMatthew Kensen

  10. Flying Fox Tree Roosts in TongaSiuPouvalu • Population pressure? • Climate Change? • Ecological importance?

  11. Project Outcomes • Extend what they’ve learned at USP to their home countries/villages • Student research(data collection, knowledge generation, and dissemination/publication) • Extensive experience with GSP receivers • Documented local knowledgeabout environmental change in the South Pacific • Published on website: www.usp.ac.fj/geog_earth_env

  12. Vinaka! Acknowledgements: • Norman Barth, American Embassy Suva • Kevin McConell, Lukemine Enterprises • Conway Pene, USP • Eberhard Weber, USP Vinaka!

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