1. 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

2. What is Geocaching?

3. What is Earthcaching?

5. Environmental Change EarthCaches Student proposals for 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

6. 16 Students representing eight Pacific Island Countries

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

8. Rising Sea Level at Sapwuafik Atoll, FSM Santiago Joab Jr.

9. Human Impacts on Environment Qoma Island, Fiji Mereseini Seninuquanuqa Rubbish disposal Turtle fishing Reef Gleaning

10. Rising Sea Levels at Akhamb Island, Vanuatu Matthew Kensen

11. Flying Fox Tree Roosts in Tonga Siu Pouvalu Population pressure? Climate Change? Ecological importance?

12. 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 knowledge about environmental change in the South Pacific Published on website: www.usp.ac.fj/geog_earth_env www.usp.ac.fj/geog_earth_env

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