Prof. James Terry

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Professor James Terry is an internationally recognised geoscientist with over 30 years of experience in hydrology, geomorphology, natural hazards, climate resilience, and environmental management across the Asia-Pacific, Mediterranean, and Middle East regions.
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Full Name
Prof. James Peter Terry
Year of Birth
1967
Nationality
British
Profession
Geoscientist
Range of Experience
As a field-based geoscientist, Prof. Terry has over three decades of research experience spanning geomorphology, climatology and hydrology. His main research interests lie in investigating the causes, behaviour and impacts of natural hazards in the Asia-Pacific and Arabian-Mediterranean regions. His work focuses on coastal hazards in particular, such as tsunamis and tropical cyclones. However, he has also published widely across different domains, including: climatic and hydrological extreme events, Holocene records, fluvial processes, karst geomorphology, island landscapes, environmental change, groundwater, hillslope processes, soil erosion and land degradation.

He is an Assistant Editor on the editorial boards of Natural Hazards and Geoscience Letters, both published by Springer Nature.
Career Summary
  • 2014 – present: Professor in Geosciences, Dean of Natural and Health Sciences Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.
  • 2008 – 2014: Associate Professor (Physical Geography), National University of Singapore.
  • 2008 – present: Adjunct Professor (Physical Geography), University of the South Pacific, Fiji.
  • 2004 – 2008: Associate Professor (Physical Geography), University of the South Pacific, Fiji (Head of School between 2003–06).
  • 2003 – 2004: Associate Professor, Research Centre for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University, Japan.
  • 1996 – 2003: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, University of the South Pacific, Fiji.
  • 1995: Hydrologist, Government Department of Agriculture, Bunbury, Western Australia.
  • 1994: Visiting academic: Universities of Sydney, Newcastle, Tasmania (Australia).
See: James Terry research
Education
  • 1988 – 1992: PhD in Physical Geography, Swansea University, UK.
  • 1985 – 1989: BSc [with 1st Class Hons] in Geography, Swansea University, UK.
Professional Affiliation
  • 2011 – present: Asia-Oceania Geoscience Society: Council (2011-15), Treasurer (2012-14), Interdisciplinary Geosciences President (2012-13) and Secretary (2013-date).
  • 2012 – present: International Science Council, Chair of the Steering Group on Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk (Asia-Pacific Region).
Recent Work
  • 2025-26: Assessment of sediment sources and erosion potential for a river restoration project in Bristol, UK.
  • 2017–18: Coastal Hazards in the Tropical Asia–Pacific Region. Investigating Prehistorical and Modern Extreme Events to Understand Future Disaster Risk.
  • 2008–11: Developing a Modern and Accurate Tropical Cyclone Database for the South Pacific Region.
  • 2002–05: Floods and Floodplain Sediment Accretion in Tropical Pacific Island River Basins.
Country Experience
Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Japan, Kiribati, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Niue, Marshall Islands, Portugal, Samoa, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, UAE, UK, Vanuatu, Vietnam.
Languages
English
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