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Patrick D. Nunn holds a Personal Chair in Oceanic Geoscience at the international University of the South Pacific, where he has taught and researched for more than a quarter of a century. He is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University. Based in Fiji, his research interests include climate change and archaeology. He is one of the IPCC scientists who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. From 2003-2009, he directed seven phases of excavation at Bourewa, the earliest human settlement in Fiji. Patrick Nunn expects to join the University of New England (Australia) as a Head of School in September 2010.
He is the author of more than 190 peer-reviewed publications as well as several books including Oceanic Islands (Blackwell, 1994), Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin (Wiley, 1999), Climate, Environment and Society in the Pacific during the Last Millennium (Elsevier, 2007), and the popular Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific (University of Hawai’i Press, 2009). In March 2003, he was awarded the Gregory Medal of the Pacific Science Association for “outstanding service to science in the Pacific”. More at www.usp.ac.fj/nunn
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