Richard Chesher Ph.D. CV

February 04, 2018

Richard Chesher Ph.D. CV

Community Environmental Research in the Pacific Islands

Richard Chesher, Ph.D

Photographer, Publisher

Consultant on Sustainable Development for the Small Island States.

Dr. Chesher is an independent Marine Scientist specializing in the impact of humanity on the natural systems of our ocean world.

He has sailed the South Pacific aboard the Research Vessel Moira since 1976, seeking an understanding of how and why humans are systematically destroying their ocean and island environment. He has worked with island governments, regional organizations and the United Nations to identify possible ways of changing community behaviour patterns.

In the progress of his adventures, Dr. Chesher has sought the fascinating social and evolutionary forces that guide the behaviour of individuals and communities. These concepts are now emerging as a whole new aspect of modern biological science.

It is an idea that could never have emerged without the advances in bio-sensory technology over the past 50 years. Yet once realized, everyone can rapidly understand and identify with the concept on a personal level. Dr. Chesher introduces the concept in “The Thread of Awareness in Chaos”. It is a story that begins with the creatures of the sea and emerges into the world of Man and may, hopefully, one day, have a profound effect on our civilizations' environmental point of view.

Dr. Chesher’s Qualificatons

Bachelor of Science. Zoology and Chemistry, 1963. University of Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

Doctor of Philosophy, Marine Sciences, 1967. Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1967. The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

Management Training, 1970 Westinghouse Learning Corporation.

40 years of professional experience in island environments, including the Florida Keys, Bahamas, Barbados, Gulf of Guinea, Africa, Panama, Colombia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Yap, the Philippines, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Wallis, Vanuatu, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, and New Zealand.

Capabilities

Multimedia for sustainable development in small island developing states

Author and Publisher of Rocket Travel Guide to Vanuatu website, and the Rocket Guide to Vanuatu Windows and Mac training media for travel professionals.

Author and publisher of the Rocket Cruising Guide to Vanuatu website and the Nautical Rocket Guide to Vanuatu Windows and Mac guide for cruising sailors.

Author and publisher of Rocket travel Guide to New Caledonia website and the French version Ile de Nouvelle Caledonie and the Windows and Mac training media for travel professionals.

Author and publisher of the Rocket Cruising Guide to New Caledonia website and the French version Guide Nautique de Nouvelle-Caledonie and the Windows and Mac training media for cruising sailors.

Author and creator of the UNESCAP Virtual Conference on Best Practices for integrating environmental information into economic decision making in Asia and the Pacific

Author of the Tellus Consultants Community Environmental Research in the Pacific Islands web site.

Producer of educational videos for community based environmental improvement including :

the Giant Clams of Tonga
Return of the Giant Clam (both in Tongan with Tongan participants)
The House of the Fish (in Tongan and English on the problems of Pacific coral reefs)
The Triton, Protector of the Reef
Code of Anchoring in Coral Reef Environments
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
Dangerous Marine Animals
Community Forest Restoration in New Zealand, and others.
Producer of The Thread of Awareness in Chaos - A multimedia exploration of life in the sea.

Facilitating community environmental improvement

Working with volunteers for resource assessment and monitoring including:

1968 to 1969 Divers throughout the Pacific help map the distribution of the Crown of Thorns starfish.
1968 to 1969 Guam volunteer divers assist in community based Crown of Thorns control program.
1972 to 1975 Sixteen Earthwatch expeditions use volunteer divers to help document the impact of man on Bahamian and Florida coral reefs.
1980 to 1981 Eight Earthwatch expeditions use volunteer divers for coral reef resource assessments in Papua New Guinea.
1986 to 1987 Five Earthwatch expeditions use volunteers for resource mapping in Vava'u Tonga.
1988 to 1991 Twenty Five Earthwatch expeditions use volunteers to help establish and monitor community based giant clam sanctuaries in the Kingdom of Tonga and produce two videos.
1992 to 1993 Ten Earthwatch expeditions use volunteers to develop a community based coral reef management plan for the Kingdom of Tonga and produce three videos.
1995 to 1996 Director of the Sea Keepers for Schools Activity with 1250 participating schools in New Zealand (Telecom Education Foundation and Sea Keepers).

Fact-Finding and Reporting

Co-ordinator researcher and editor for the development of the Environmental Management Plan of the Kingdom of Tonga (Government of Tonga and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).

Researcher and Author of the State of the Environment of Oceania 1995. (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).

Researcher and Author of 1997 Case Studies on Resource Assessment and Monitoring in Pacific Islands. (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).

55 years of experience in scientific assessment and monitoring surveys on coral reefs, black corals, pearl oysters, giant clams, and crown-of-thorns starfish.

Pollution sources surveys, environmental impact assessments, and project evaluation for coastal zone management and sustainable development.

Author of more than 48 scientific papers, 67 popular articles and books, and 21 Audio-visual productions.

Training and teaching

1958 to 1968 Professional SCUBA instructor. Founder of the PADI Science Diver Classification.

1967 to 1968 College and graduate level teaching at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

1968 to 1969 College and graduate level teaching at the University of Guam, evolution and invertebrate zoology

1969 Trained 69 professional scientists in field survey techniques for U.S. Department of the Interior Pacific Crown of Thorns Assessment Survey

1972 to 1993 Trained 64 teams of Earthwatch volunteer divers in field survey techniques for remote sensing, land and underwater resource mapping, marine resource survey techniques, general marine ecology.

1984 Regional South Pacific Workshop on coastal processes (USGS, SPREP).

1985 Regional South Pacific Workshop on Environmental Project Evaluation (Saipan 1985 SPREP, IUCN, UNEP)

1986 Regional Pacific Island Remote Sensing Training Course on Resource Mapping, January 1986 (Suva, Fiji. ESCAP/UNDP/AIDAB).

1995 Prepared educational materials for Vision Hauraki (Auckland City Council).

1995 to 1996 Prepared educational materials for Sea Keepers for Schools, including 35 lesson plans on school participation in science projects.

1998 Prepared educational program for ESCAP Best Practices for integrating environmental information into economic decision making in Asia and the Pacific.

1998 to present - Creation and publication of the Rocket Cruising and Travel Guides including the Rocket Cruising Guide to New Caledonia, the Guide Nautique Nouvelle-Caledonie and the Rocket Cruising Guide to Vanuatu.

2003-2009 Creation of Windows and Mac training materials for tourism professionals on tourism features of Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

Professional Diving Qualifications

SCUBA Instructors Rating. 1959. Qualified to 140 feet. Divers Training Academy, Kendall, Florida.

Commercial Deep Sea Diving Certificate. 1959. Qualified to depth of 150 feet. Qualified SCUBA, Hard Hat, Mixed Gas, Rebreathers. Divers Training Academy, Kendall, Florida.

Instructor's Certificate. 1968. Professional Association of Diving Instructors.

Certificate of Aquanaut Training. 1970. Presented by R. Morton, United States Secretary of the Interior. Qualified on use and maintenance of the G.E. Mark 10 closed-cycle mixed gas unit and long term saturation diving for Tektite II saturation dive.

Research Diving Instructor. 1975. Professional Association of Diving Instructors.

Platinum 5000 1996. Presented with the SSI Platinum 5000 Award for distinguished contributions to the world of Scientific Diving.

Professional Diving Activities

1958. Commenced diving in Long Island Sound, New York.

1959. Employed as SCUBA Instructor and commercial diver by Carl Gage's Divers Training Academy in Kendall Florida.

1960-1963. Employed as commercial diver, testing camera and swimmer propulsion units by Dimitri Ribicoff (Chicago Bridge and Iron) in Florida and the Bahama Islands.

1963-1967. Graduate student at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Miami, Florida engaged in development of diving techniques for underwater environmental studies of coral reefs and underwater photography.

Coral Reef Surveys in Florida, Bahama Islands, Panama, Gulf of Guinea, Africa.
Commercial diving activities with Chicago Bridge and Iron

Co-Founder of International Association of Professional Diving Scientists (With Sylvia Earle).
Participant in Alvin Deep Diving Submersible Program at Wood's Hole.
Consultant to U.S. Navy on Deep Diving Research Subs.
Developed shallow water habitat.
600' dive with Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Cachalot Saturation Diving chamber (7-day saturation dive).
Coral Reef Surveys to Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica.

1969-1970. Associate Professor University of Guam.

Coral Reef surveys in Guam.
Chief Scientist for Department of Interior Survey of the North Pacific for the Crown of Thorns Starfish (In charge of 69 diving scientists).
Coral Reef Surveys in Guam, Palau, Truck, and Saipan.

1970-1972. Manager for Marine Ecology of Westinghouse Ocean Research Laboratories in Florida.

Underwater research on the impact of desalination plants and power plants on the marine environment.
1971. Tektite II, a month-long saturation dive in the Virgin Islands in association with US NASA to investigate the impact of pesticides on coral physiology.
1972. Hydrolab Saturation Dives in the Bahama Islands

1972-1975. President The Marine Research Foundation.

Environmental Impact Surveys, Florida and Caribbean.
Earthwatch Principal Investigator leading SCUBA diving teams on scientific expeditions in the Florida Keys, The Dry Tortugas, and the Bahama Islands.
National Geographic Dry Tortugas Expedition
1975. Instigated Research Diving Instructor rating in PADI.

1975-1998 Vice President of the Marine Research Foundation aboard the Research Vessel Moira in the South Pacific.

1976-1977. Reef surveys in Philippine Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Co-founder of the Malaupaina Marine Biological Research Institute.
1978-79. Reef surveys and underwater photography in North Queensland, Australia.
1979-1981 Pearl Oyster Surveys in Papua New Guinea.
Earthwatch Diving Expeditions surveying marine invertebrates in the Milne Bay District of Papua New Guinea.
1981-1982 Dolphin research in Australia
Reef surveys in New Caledonia
Time Lapse Photography of reef animals in Fiji
Environmental surveys in Wallis Island and Samoa.

1983-1985 Consultant to the South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme of the South Pacific Commission.

Black coral surveys in Tonga
Coral Reef surveys in Tonga, Fiji and New Caledonia
Pollution survey in Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands

1985 to 1987 Ground-truth surveys in shallow-water marine environments for development of geographic information system based on satellite imagery. Fiji, New Caledonia, and Tonga.

Earthwatch Expeditions to Tonga for resource mapping using remote sensing.

1988-1991 Earthwatch Expeditions to Tonga on the development of Community Based Marine Sanctuaries for Giant Clams.

1992-1993 Production of a video series on Dangerous Marine Animals with Dr. Carl Edmonds in Sydney Australia.

1992-1995 Earthwatch Expeditions to Tonga surveying coral reefs and development of community coral reef management plan for the Kingdom of Tonga.

1995-Present. Diving, cruising and mapping activities in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Owner and operator of research vessels since 1958. Competent in diesel repair, photovoltaic and wind generation systems, celestial navigation, weather analysis, cartography, survey techniques, marine electrics, single engine land aircraft pilot, specialist in design and fabrication of underwater photographic and video equipment.

Active professional photographer (Photo Researchers, Inc. New York and SEAPHOT, London: Agents), experienced in photojournalism, slide show production, film making and video production. Fully equipped for video production and digital still photography (surface and sub marine).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

Scientific Publications

Chesher, R.H. 1963."The Morphology and Function of the Frontal Ambulacrum of Moira atropos," Bull. Mar. Sci. 13(4):549 573.

Chesher, R.H. 1966. "Rediscription of the Echinoid species Paraster floridiensis,"Bull. Mar. Sci., 16(1):1 19.

Chesher, R.H. 1966. "Report on Echinoidea collected by R/V PILLSBURY in the Gulf of Guinea," Studies Tropical Oceanography, No.4(1), the R/V PILLSBURY Deep Sea Biological Expedition to the Gulf of Guinea, 1964 1965, 209 223.

Chesher, R.H. 1968. "The Systematics of Sympatric Species in West Indian Spatangoids," Studies Tropical Oceanography, No.7, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami, viii and 186 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1968. "Transport of Marine Plankton through the Panama Canal," Limnology and Oceanography 13(2):387 388.

Chesher, R.H. 1968. "Lytechinus williamsi, a new Sea Urchin from Panama," Breviora 305: 13pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1969. "The Biology and Ecology of Meoma ventricosa (Echinoidea: Spatangoida)," Bull. Mar. Sci. 19(1):72 110.

Chesher, R.H. 1969. "Destruction of Pacific Corals by the Sear Star Acanthaster planci," Science, 165(3890):280 283.

Chesher, R.H. 1969. "Acanthaster planci: Impact on Pacific Coral Reefs," Final Report. U.S. Department of Commerce. National Technical Information Service. PB 187 631: 168 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1970. "Biological results of the University of Miami Deep Sea Expeditions. Evolution in the Genus Meoma (Echinoidea: Spatangoida) and a description of a new species from Panama," Bull. Mar. Sci., 20(3):731 761.

Chesher, R.H. 1970. "Echinoids collected by the R/V PILLSBURY in the Western Caribbean and the Gulf of Panama," in Bayer, F.M. Voss, and Robins, Bioenvironmental and radiological safety feasibility studies Atlantic Pacific Interoceanic Canal. Report on the Marine Fauna on Benthic Shelf Slope Communities of the Isthmian Region. Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: University of Miami, Pages 42, A51 52, A105 105, A275 276.

Chesher, R.H. 1971. (With L.R. McCloskey)"Effects of Man made Pollution on the Dynamics of Coral Reefs," in Miller et. al. TEKTITE II, U.S. Department of Interior VI, 229 237.

Chesher, R.H. 1971. "Biological Impact of a Large Scale Desalination Plant at Key West," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Pollution Control Research Series 18080 GBX, 12/71 xii and 150 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1972. "The Status of Knowledge of Panamanian Echinoids 1971, with comments on other Echinoderms," in M.L. Jones ed. the Panamic Biota; some observations prior to a sea level canal. Bull. Biol. Soc. Wash. 2:139 158.

Chesher, R.H. 1972. "A new Paraster (Echinoidea: Spatangoida) from the Caribbean," Bull. Mar. Sci., 22(1):10 25.

Endean R., R.H. Chesher 1973. Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Acanthaster planci Population Explosions in the Indo-West Pacific Region. Biological Conservation, Vol. 5, No. 2.: 87-95

Chesher, R.H. 1973. "Environmental Analysis: Canals and Quarries of the Lower Florida Keys," C. Toppino and Sons, Inc. Rockland Key Florida. x and 162pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1973. "Impact of Effluent from the Barbados Power Plant on Adjacent Coral Reef and Lagoon," Canadian International Power Company. 130 pp, 42 figs.

Chesher, R.H. 1973. "Environmental Impact of Cooling Water Discharge into the Key West Coastal Waters and a Plan for Pollution Abatement," City Electric System, Key West, Florida. 56 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1974. "Environmental Impact Assessment for the Municipal Sanitary Land Fill," City of Key West, Florida. 49 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1974. "Environmental Impact Statement for Land Fill Activities in a Mangrove Area." U.S. Air Force, Cudjoe Key, Florida Keys.

Chesher, R.H. 1974. "Canal Survey Florida Keys," Society for Correlation of Progress and Environment, Big Pine Key, Florida, 173pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1974. "Environmental Impact Statement for Canal Construction to Eliminate a Pollution Problem," Flame Key Inc. 43 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1975. "Biological Impact of a Large Scale Desalination Plant," in Wood and Johannes (Ed.) Tropical Marine Pollution. Elsevier, New York: 99 153.

Chesher, R.H. 1979. "Stock Assessment: Gold Lip and Black Lip Oysters near Tagula, Papua New Guinea." Fisheries Division, Department of Primary Industries, Papua New Guinea. 22pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1979. "Stock Assessment: Lapi, Black Lip and Gold Lip Oysters Near the Trobriand Islands." Fisheries Division, Department of Primary Industries, Papua New Guinea. 13pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1980. "Stock Assessment of Commercial Invertebrates of Milne Bay Coral Reefs." Fisheries Division, Department of Primary Industries, Papua New Guinea. 56 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1981. "Long term Changes in Dry Tortugas Coral Reef Environments," National Geographic Society Research Reports Vol.13:171 175.

Chesher, R.H. 1983. "Educational Materials for Environmental Radio Broadcasting in the Pacific Islands Training Course," South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, South Pacific Commission. 98 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1984. "Pollution Sources Survey of the Kingdom of Tonga," South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, South Pacific Commission, 110pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1984. "Resource Assessment Report: Black Coral of Tonga," South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, S.P.C.:30 pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1985. "Project Evaluation for the Development of Coastal Resources in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: An In Country Training Course." South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, South Pacific Commission. 117pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1985. Practical problems in coral reef utilization and management: a Tongan case study. Proceedings of the 5th International Coral Reef Congress, Volume 4, Tahiti, pages 213 217.

Chesher, R.H. 1986. (With R. Thaman) "Remote Sensing in the Pacific Islands: Report of the Pacific Island regional Remote Sensing Workshop and Training Course on Resource Mapping, Suva, Fiji." UNDP/ESCAP Regional Remote Sensing Programme, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, UN Building, Bangkok, Thailand. 87pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1987. "An Electronic Atlas for Resource Management and Project Planning in Pacific Islands." Report to the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources. Government of Tonga. 14pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1987. "The Tongan giant clam (Vasuva) revitalization project." Fisheries Newsletter 43:26-33. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia.

Chesher, R.H. 1988. "Security Problems with Resource Surveys of Benthic Marine Organisms." South Pacific Commission Workshop on Pacific Inshore Fisheries Resources. BP32 5pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1988. "A microcomputer based resource mapping system for Pacific Islands." SPC/Inshore Fish. Res./BP.33. Paper presented at the South Pacific Commission Workshop on Pacific Inshore Fishery Resources, Noumea, New Caledonia, 14-25 March. 8pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1989. "The Tongan Giant Clam (Vasuva) Revitalization Project." Report to the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources. Government of Tonga. 54pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1989. "Giant Clam Circles in the Vava'u Island Group of the Kingdom of Tonga. 1987 to 1989." Report to the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources, Government of Tonga. 47pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1990. "Environmental Management Plan for the Kingdom of Tonga." United Nations. ESCAP. Bangkok, Thailand. ST/ESCAP/887. 197pp.

Chesher R.H. 1990. (with Ulunga Fa'anunu, Aisea Tuipulotu, 'Ofa Fakahau) "REPORT ON THE INSTALLATION OF THREE NEW COMMUNITY GIANT CLAM SANCTUARIES IN THE VAVA'U ISLAND GROUP" Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources, Kingdom of Tonga. 8pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1991a. "Tonga's Community Giant Clam Sanctuaries: A successful environmental improvement project." Report to the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources of the Kingdom of Tonga. 22pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1991b. "Community giant clam sanctuaries: do they increase recruitment on adjacent coral reefs?" Report to the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources of the Kingdom of Tonga.45pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1991c. "Giant clams of Vava'u, Tonga: their growth, mortality, habitats, predators and diseases." Report to the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources of the Kingdom of Tonga.47pp.

Chesher, R.H. 1993. "Giant Clam Sanctuaries in the Kingdom of Tonga" Marine Studies of the University of the South Pacific Technical Report Series 95/2. 80pp. + 6 Appendices.

Chesher, R.H. 1993. (with A. Poulsen) "The Giant Triton." Australian Shell News, No. 83, August:2-3.

Chesher, R.H. 1995. "State of the Environment: Oceania." United Nations. ESCAP. Bangkok, Thailand.

Chesher, R.H. 1996. "Adopt-A-Beach. Conducting a shellfish census." New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries, hard copy distributed to schools plus electronic file on disk.

Chesher, R.H. 1997a. "Case Study on Fishery Resources Development and Management in Western Samoa." United Nations ESCAP. Bangkok, Thailand.

Chesher, R.H. 1997b. "Case Study on Water Resources Development and Management in Kiribati." United Nations ESCAP. Bangkok, Thailand.

Chesher, R.H. 1997c. "Case Study on Land Resources Development and Management in the Solomon Islands." United Nations ESCAP. Bangkok, Thailand.

Chesher, R.H. 1998a. "Modalities for Environmental Assessment; Pacific Island Sub-region." United Nations ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand.

Chesher, R.H. 1998b. "Best Practices for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific". United Nations ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand.

Chesher, R.H. 1999a. "Cooperation for Environmental Management in the South Pacific" Chapter 14 of the 2000 State of the Environment of Asia and the Pacific. United Nations ESCAP. Bangkok, Thailand.

Chesher, R.H. 1999b. "Coastal and Marine Environment" Chapter 5 of the 2000 State of the Environment of Asia and the Pacific.

Chesher, R.H. 2000a. "Review of the State of the Environment." Pacific Sub-regional Consultation Meeting in Preparation for the Ministerial Conference Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific 12-14 April 2000 Port Vila, Vanuatu. United Nations ESCAP. Bangkok, Thailand. www.unescap.com

Chesher, R.H. 2000b. "Current and critical environment and development concerns of the small island developing states of Asia and the Pacific for inclusion in the regional action programme for environmentally sound and sustainable development, 2001-2006." Regional Review Meeting in Preparation for the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific, 2000 8-10 May 2000 Bangkok. www.unescap.com

Chesher, R.H. 2000c. "Review Of Implementation Of The Programme Of Action For Sustainable Development Of Small Island Developing States And The Regional Action Programme For Environmentally Sound And Sustainable Development, 1996-2000: Pacific Island Perspective." Regional Review Meeting in Preparation for the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific, 2000 8-10 May 2000 Bangkok. www.unescap.com

Audio-Visual Productions

1982. "The Magic Sea." 16 mm film and video for Environmental Awareness. Development Planning Office, American Samoa.

1983. "A Healthy Island, a Happy Island." Slide Audio presentation on Environmental Awareness. Development Planning Office, American Samoa.

1983. "Island Beautification." Slide Audio presentation on Island Improvement. Development Planning Office, American Samoa.

1983. "Island Appreciation Station Breaks." Environmental Awareness station breaks for KVZK TV, American Samoa.

1985. "River." Video on environmental awareness of a river in New Caledonia. Marine Research Foundation.

1985. "Project Evaluation for Coastal Resources in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands." 30 minute Video on Project Assessment Techniques in Island Environments.

1988. "The Giant Clam Circles of Vava'u" (English and Tongan versions). 30-minute Video on the establishment of community giant clam brood stocks in Vava'u.

1991. "Malu'i Mu'a e Fa'e `a e Vasuva." (Tongan, translates as, `Don't Kill the Mother of All Giant Clams'). 45-minute dramatic Environmental Improvement Video produced in Tongan on the establishment of community giant clam sanctuaries. South Pacific Aguaculture Development Project. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Suva, Fiji.

1991. "Return of the Giant Clam." 35-minute English overlay of the Tongan Environmental Improvement Video. South Pacific Aquaculture Development Project. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Suva, Fiji.

1993. "Pea na'e `afio `a e `Otua kuo lelei" 60-minute Tongan Environmental Improvement Video on the coral reefs of Vava'u. Mana Fakatupu, Kingdom of Tonga.

1993. "How to avoid injuries from Dangerous Marine Animals." 60-minute educational video. Mana Fakatupu, Kingdom of Tonga.

1995. "The Giant Triton, Protector of the Reef." 5-minute educational video produced for Mana Fakatupu, Kingdom of Tonga.

1995. "House of the Fish" 40 minute Tongan Environmental Improvement Video on the coral reefs of Tonga. Mana Fakatupu, Kingdom of Tonga.

1995. "Code of Anchoring in Coral Reef Environments (CARE)." 15-minute educational video for cruising and charter yachts establishing a code of ethics to prevent damage to coral reefs from yacht anchors. Mana Fakatupu, Kingdom of Tonga.

1995. "Nature and Things." A series of short environmental education videos for Air New Zealand in-flight entertainment, aimed at providing passengers with environmental tips to make their vacations more Eco-friendly. Shown on inbound flights to New Zealand. Each video is about 5 minutes long. Topics included:

The Giant Triton, Protector of the Reef.
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
Respecting Dangerous Marine Animals
Rebuilding Native Forests

Web Sites and Multimedia Productions

1996. "Sea Keepers for Schools." 300 page web site with information about conducting community and school environmental improvement projects http://www.seakeepers-nz.com

1997. "Community Participation in Scientific Research in the South Pacific." The Tellus Consultants Ltd. Web site https://tellusconsultants.com

1998. "Thread of Awareness in Chaos" Website on cognition science and marine ecology. Tellus Consultants Ltd. Production. PO Box 257, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

1998 This Magic Sea website about coral reef ecology https://www.this-magic-sea.com

1998 Log of the Research Vessel Moira in the South Pacific https://www.log-of-the-moira.com

2000. Integrated Clean Energy for Peace And Climate Web Site https://www.ice-pac.org

2021. Rocket Travel and Cruising Guides to New Caledonia and Vanuatu Web Site Rocket Travel and Cruising Guides to New Caledonia and Vanuatu

Cruising Broken Bay Australia Web Site https://cruising-broken-bay.com

New Caledonia Lagoon Web Site https://newcaledonialagoon.com

New Caledonia Images Web Site https://imagesnewcaledonia.com

Vanuatu Images Web Stie https://imagesvanuatu,com

360 Cities Web Site https://www.360cities.net/profile/richard-chesher

500 PX Web Site https://500px.com/p/RichardChesher?view=photos