Staff Details:
Name: Dr. Antoine de Ramon N’Yeurt
Job Title: Associate Professor
Courses:: PC426 (Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Climate and Disaster Resilience) & PC420 (Research Projects in Climate Change)
Email: antoine.nyeurt@usp.ac.fj
Tel: (+679) 323 2023
Job responsibilities and teaching interests:
Dr. Antoine de Ramon N’Yeurt, a marine biologist, obtained his Ph.D. in marine botany from the University of the South Pacific (USP, Suva) in 1998, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) of the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. For the past 30 years he devoted his activities to the study of marine plants of the Pacific region (Fiji, Rotuma, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Wallis, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Clipperton) as well as the Seychelles and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. He is the author of numerous publications, books and floras on taxonomy and described several new genera and species of marine algae. He is the coordinator for PC426 (Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Climate and Disaster Resilience), as well as PC420 (Research Projects in Climate Change), which are fully-online postgraduate courses at the University of the South Pacific. More recently, he has been involved in the topics of Ocean Algal Afforestation (OAA) and renewable energy, bio-fertilisers and ocean acidification and its effects on coral reefs. He is also involved in population-level climate change adaptation in the South Pacific, and manages a network of coastal observation platforms for seawater temperature and ocean acidification in Fiji (ReefTEMPS Fiji). Also, Dr. N’Yeurt has supervised or co-supervised more than 20 postgraduate students.