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James Lewis

Coastal Engineer

Intercoastal Consulting

Meteorologist, M & E specialist, Knowledge management specialist, GIS specialist, Capacity building specialist, Civil engineering (hard and soft engineering solutions), Disaster Relief/Management specialist, Community trainer specialist, Proposal writing/Report writing, Other, Hydrographic Surveying, Project and Programme Design, Preparation, Implementation and Evaluation, Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environment management, Early Warning Systems, Programme Management, Project managment (planning, designing, implementation and monitoring), Technical Expert providing Environmental/Engineering services to Pacific Islands Countries and Territories for management of coastal and uplands natural resources and built environments., Vulnerability assessment and resilience-based management, Urban resilience, tsunami modelling, natural marine hazard, marine geology, Tsunami and coastal inundation hazards, Sustainable livelihoods & resilience building, Risk Assessment, DRR, and Resiliency Planning, Resilience, Development effectiveness, Community Consultation, Adaptation planning, vulnerability asses, Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment, National Adaptation Planning, Community-Based Adaptation, Coastal Oceanography, coastal inundation and erosion, Coastal Management, Coastal engineering, coastal processes, marine ecology, numerical modelling, Coastal Engineering, Climate change, climate science communication, Climate Resilient Infrastructure Design, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate change / adaptaion policy and strategy, Climate Risk Management

James Lewis, Director of Intercoastal Consulting, is a certified practicing civil engineer with over 15 years of experience specialising in coastal engineering throughout Australasia and across the Pacific. He has a broad knowledge of coastal protection design, integrated coastal management and surf amenity. James’s skills extend outside the office where he has led large-scale metocean deployments, analysing the data captured in the field to calibrate numerical models used to inform coastal design.

He has focussed the last 10 years of his career on working in Small Island Developing States (SIDs) in climate change adaptation, concerned primarily with developing climate-resilient coastal protection. James aspires to see the design phase through to implementation; having supported procurement, and contracting and undertaken construction supervision on large projects in remote locations. He aims to provide value and support through the complete project lifecycle including the social, financial and institutional aspects of these projects, endeavoring to understand the administrative, governmental and funding mechanisms specific to each country and community and their relation to the delivery of a successful project.

Using his knowledge of coastal engineering, the ocean and the environment, James’ primary endeavor is to assist coastal communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Shaun Williams

Hazard Analyst

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA)

Other, Tsunami and coastal inundation hazards

May 2015 to Present: Hazard Analyst, NIWA, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Mar-2015 to May-2015: Individual Consultant, UNDP Adaptation Fund Assignment – Status Review of the National Coastal Infrastructure Management Plans in Samoa.
Nov-2014 to Jan-2015: Samoa National Coordinator, ADB funded Strengthening Disaster and Climate Risk Resilience in Urban Development in the Pacific Project, Phase II – Samoa Case Study.
June 2014: Field Collaborator, Archaeo-Environmental Investigations along the mid-Holocene shoreline near Aitape, PNG.
Jan to Dec-2011: NZ MoRST-Fulbright Visiting Graduate Researcher, Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
Aug-2004 to Jan-2007: Senior Scientific Officer, Geophysics Section, Meteorology Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Government of Samoa.
Dec-2003 to Aug-2004: Scientific Officer, Climate Applications Section, Meteorology Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Government of Samoa.