Antoine De Ramon N'Yeurt

About

Lecturer & Researcher in Marine Biology, Climate Change, Ecosystems & Ocean Acidification / SST ,

The University of the South Pacific, Suva, FIJI

Summary

- PhD in Marine Biology from the University of the South Pacific (1998)
- 1998 to 2000: Research Fellow in Marine Botanist and Taxonomy at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
- 1999: Consultant for WWF on the Marine Plant Biodiversity of the Cook Islands (Raroronga and Aitutaki)
- 2001 to 2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of French Polynesia, Tahiti. Research on the marine plant biodiversity of the Society Islands, Tuamotu, Gambiers, Australs
- 2006 to 2009: Research Fellow, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Nouméa, New Caledonia. Research in taxonomy and the marine biodiversity of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Pitcairn, Clipperton, Fiji, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia.
- 2009-2011: Assistant Director, Alliance Française de Suva
- 2011-2015: Lecturer & Researcher in Climate Change, marine bio-fertilisers and food security, biofuels, Ocean Temperature and Ocean Acidification at PaCE-SD, USP, Fiji.

Qualifications and credentials

PhD, 1998, Completed, The University of the South Pacific

Ocean Acidification Monitoring, 2015, Completed, The University of Auckland

GIS Community Mapping, 2015, Completed, The University of the South Pacific

French Association of Scientific Divers, Diver, 2004-2015

English, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent

French, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent

Rotuman, Good, Good, Average, Excellent

Spanish, Good, Average, Average, Good

Italian, Good, Average, Average, Good

Work experience

Capacity building specialist

The University of the South Pacific, Pacific Center for Environment and Sustainable Development, Lecturer and Researcher in Climate Change, Suva, Fiji, Fiji Islands, Project leader, Precise and continuous Monitoring of Coastal Seawater Temperature in Fiji waters, Ten different sites in Fiji waters are monitored for seawater temperature using precise SBE-56 data loggers on a continuous basis. This project falls , Vanuatu, Fiji, Kiribati, Project leader, Biofuel and bio-fertiliser from anaerobic digestion of crown-of-thorn starfish, Excess marine biomass in the form of the pest species Acanthaster planci or COT is used in research to produce biogas and fertiliser for energy and fo, Fiji Islands, Project Leader, Paific Community Development through the production of biofuel & fertiliser from pest marine plants, Two postgraduate students are comleting research supervised by the project leader on converting excess seaweeds into liquid sustainable fertiliser and

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Research Fellow, Nouméa, New Caledonia, Nouméa, New Caledonia, Research Fellow, Biodiversity and taxonomy of Pacific and Indian Ocean Marine Floras, Identification of marine plants and compilation of biodiversity lists; taxonomic description and publication of new genera and species of marine algae

University of California at Berkeley, Research Scientist, Moorea BIOCODE Project, Gump Research Station, Moorea, French Polynesia, Gump Research Station, UC Berkeley, Moorea, French Polynesia, Research Scientist, Moorea BIOCODE, Collection taxonomic identification, documenting, databasing and sampling for DNA molecular analysis of marine algae from Moorea Island as part of th

Vulnerability and Adaptation Study of the Laucala Beach Foreshore Area, Nasinu Town Ciuncil, Project Leader, Nasinu, Laucala Beach, Fiji, V&A Report on coastal vulnerability to erosion from climate change impacts and anthropogenic activities.

Publications

The invasive brown alga Sargassum polycystum in Tuvalu, South Pacific: Assessment of the bloom and applications to local agriculture and sustainable e, Journal of Applied Phycology, DOI: 10.1007/s10811-014-0435-y

Marine plants as a sustainable source of agrifertilizers for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, ISBN: 978-1-4666-6501-9

Negative Carbon via Ocean Afforestation, Process Safety and Environmental Protection 90: 467-474.

New records of marine algae from Tonga, Central Polynesia, Marine Biodiversity Records 7: 1-8

Benthic algal and seagrass communities in Baa Atoll, Maldives, Atoll Research Bulletin 590: 31-66.

Coastal Protection: Best Practices from the Pacific, Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD), the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, ISBN 978-982-01-0936-0

The macroalgal flora of the Marquesas Islands, Government of French Polynesia

Marine benthic algal flora of French Polynesia. III. Rhodophyta, with additions to the Chlorophyta and Phaeophyceae, Cryptogamie, Algologie 31: 1-205