Capacity building in the South Pacific and the role of the marine studies programme at the University of the South Pacific

This chapter discusses national literary histories in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific and summarises the book's main findings regarding the construction and revision of narratives of national identity since 1950. In colonial and postcolonial cultures, literary history is often based on a paradox that says much about their evolving sense of collective identity, but perhaps even more about the strains within it. The chapter considers the complications typical of postcolonial literary history by focusing on the conflict between collective celebration and its refutation. It examines three issues relating to the histories of English-language fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific: problems of chronology and beginnings, with a special emphasis on Indigenous peoples; the role of the cultural elite and the history wars in the Australian context; and the influence of postcolonial networks on historical methodology.

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Book Review of Teaching and Learning with Technology: Pushing boundaries and breaking down walls

Open Praxis ◽

10.5944/openpraxis.12.4.1184 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 569

Author(s):

Ramesh Chander Sharma

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

South Pacific ◽

The South ◽

The University ◽

Learning With Technology

Book review of Teaching and Learning with Technology: Pushing boundaries and breaking down walls, edited by Som Naidu and Sharishna Narayan and published in 2020 by The University of the South Pacific Press.

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EDITORIAL: Pacific media advocacy

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v23i2.343 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 6-10

Author(s):

David Robie

Keyword(s):

Solomon Islands ◽

South Pacific ◽

Journalism Education ◽

The South ◽

Educational Training ◽

Media Advocacy ◽

Regional University ◽

National University ◽

The Media ◽

The University

IN SAMOA during July 2015, a new Pacific journalism education and training advocacy era was born with the establishment of the Media Educators Pacific (MEP) after a talkfest had gone on for years about the need for such a body. A draft constitution had even been floated at a journalism education conference hosted at the University of the South Pacific in 2012. The initiative created unity of sorts between the Technical, Vocational and Educational Training (TVET) media institutes from Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and the regional University of the South Pacific journalism programme. Founding president Misa Vicky Lepou of the National University of Samoa pledged at the time to produce a vision with a difference:

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The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific. Edited byDoug Munro and Andrew Thornley. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Theological College and The Institute of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific, 1996. xii + 321 pp. $12.00 paper.

Church History ◽

10.2307/3171004 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 67 (3) ◽

pp. 627-629

Author(s):

Robert A. Schneider

Keyword(s):

South Pacific ◽

The South ◽

The Pacific ◽

Pacific Studies ◽

The University

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The role of air-sea coupling on the simulation of intraseasonal rainfall variability over the South Pacific in ECHAM5-SIT

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-12770 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sunil Kumar Pariyar ◽

Noel Keenlyside ◽

Wan-Ling Tseng

Keyword(s):

General Circulation ◽

Rainfall Variability ◽

Intraseasonal Variability ◽

Phase Relationship ◽

Coupled Model ◽

South Pacific ◽

South Pacific Convergence Zone ◽

The South ◽

The Impact

We investigate the impact of air-sea coupling on the simulation of the intraseasonal variability of rainfall over the South Pacific using the ECHAM5 atmospheric general circulation model coupled with Snow-Ice-Thermocline (SIT) ocean model. We compare the fully coupled simulation with two uncoupled simulations forced with sea surface temperature (SST) climatology and daily SST from the coupled model. The intraseasonal rainfall variability over the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) is reduced by 17% in the uncoupled model forced with SST climatology and increased by 8% in the uncoupled simulation forced with daily SST. The coupled model best simulates the key characteristics of the two intraseasonal rainfall modes of variability in the South Pacific, as identified by an Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis. The spatial structure of the two EOF modes in all three simulations is very similar, suggesting these modes are independent of air-sea coupling and primarily generated by the dynamics of the atmosphere. The southeastward propagation of rainfall anomalies associated with two leading rainfall modes in the South Pacific depends upon the eastward propagating Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) signals over the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. Air-sea interaction seems crucial for such propagation as both eastward and southeastward propagations substantially reduced in the uncoupled model forced with SST climatology. Prescribing daily SST from the coupled model improves the simulation of both eastward and southeastward propagations in the uncoupled model forced with daily SST, showing the role of SST variability on the propagation of the intraseasonal variability, but the periodicity differs from the coupled model. The change in the periodicity is attributed to a weaker SST-rainfall relationship that shifts from SST leading rainfall to a nearly in-phase relationship in the uncoupled model forced with daily SST.

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