Mark Calamia specializes in ecological and environmental anthropology, with an emphasis in natural resource conservation and cultural heritage preservation. His research in Fiji focuses on the application of traditional ecological knowledge for marine resource conservation and the development of marine protected areas. One aspect of his research involves the crucial role that customary marine tenure and common property institutions play in the establishment of community-based marine protected areas through adaptive management. His other area of applied research and teaching centers on cultural resource management and the empowerment of Indian tribes in the U.S. Southwest. He works in that region to facilitate government-to-government consultation through ethnographic and ethnohistoric assessments and protection of American Indian traditional cultural properties, sacred sites, and cultural landscapes. Other interests include development, ethnoecology, traditional fishing methods, and the application of GIS and participatory indigenous mapping for resource management. Mark has a consultancy role and also is an associate with the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management (IIIRM).

Selected Consulting Projects

Project: Traditional Marine Knowledge and Culture History of Exchange & Alliance of Yanuca, Fiji: A Context for an Ecotourism Venture 
Client: Pacific Blue Foundation (Conservation and Development NGO)
Date: 2006-2007

Project: Marine Resource Awareness and Conservation Workshop at Yanuca Village, Fiji
Client: Pacific Blue Foundation (Conservation and Development NGO)
Date: 2006

Project: Ethnographic Planning for an Analysis and Assessment of the Topic Maze Sacred Site 
Client: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Date: 2005

Project: An Ethnographic Assessment of  2 Traditional Cultural Properties near the Upper Colorado River
Client: Western Area Power Administration under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Date: 2004-2005

Project: Review and Edit of NOAA National Marine Protected Area Training Institute Web Site on Social Science Tools and Methods for Managing Marine Protected Areas
Client: Research, Environmental and Management Support Inc. (REMSA)
Date: 2003

Project: An assessment of a student-centered, inquiry-based approach to teaching biology.
Client: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: 2001

Education

2003 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder

1986 M.P.C.D., Master of Planning and Community Development, University of Colorado at Denver

1983 M.A., Master of Arts, Anthropology, University of Illinois, Champaign

1979 B.A., Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso

Selected Publications

2007 Calamia, Mark A., Paul Geraghty, Emele Bola, Keiasi Likuvai, and Shawna Reiner.
Marine Taxa of Kadavu Province, Fiji. Domodomo: Journal of the FijiMuseum, 1 & 2: 7-16.

2006 Calamia, Mark A.
Environmental Entitlements and the Establishment of Community-Based Marine Conservation Areas. International Ocean Institute-Australia for Pacem in Maribus XXXI Conference Proceedings of Oct. 31-November 3, 2005, Townsville, Queensland Australia.

2005 Calamia, Mark A.
Hoover Dam Bypass Phase II Ethnographic Assessment: Final report submitted to the Western Area Power Administration, Southwest Region (Phoenix, AZ). Dept. of Energy.

1999 Calamia, Mark A.
A Methodology for Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Geographic Information Systems for Marine Resource Management in the Pacific. Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge: Information Bulletin, 10: 2-12.

1997 Calamia, Mark A.
Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Scientific Tools for Managing Hawaii’s Coral Reefs. Current: Journal of Marine Education 14(2): 16-34

1996 Calamia, Mark A.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Geographic Information Systems in the Use and Management of Hawaii’s Coral Reefs and Fishponds. High Plains Applied Anthropologist, 16(2): 144-164.

1988 Calamia, Mark A. 
The Need for an Integrated Approach in the Use of Automated Information Systems for Archaeological Predictive Modeling.  In Tools to Manage the Past: Research Priorities for Cultural Resources Management in the Southwest, edited by Joseph A. Tainter and R.H. Hampre, U.S. Forest Service.

Selected Presentations

2007 “Issues and Potential Solutions Concerning the Patrolling of Locally-Managed Marine Protected Areas in the Fiji Islands” by Mark A. Calamia. Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) 67th Annual Meeting. Tampa Bay, Florida.

2006 “Power, Contestation and Negotiation Over Access to Customary Fishing Grounds: A Case Study of the Sea Cucumber Fishers of  Ono Island, Kadavu, Fiji.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, California.

2005 “Formal and Informal Institutional Dynamics in the Establishment of Community-Based Marine Protected Areas in Fiji.” Paper presented at the Pacem in Maribus (Peace in the Oceans) XXXI 2005 Conference. Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

2005 “Property, Custom, and Institutional Issues in the Establishment of Community-Based Marine Protected Areas in Fiji.” Professional seminar presented at the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

2004 “Sociocultural Aspects of Sea Cucumber Fishing in the Fiji Islands.” Presentation given at the 2004 Spring Conference of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology (HPSfAA). Estes Park, Colorado.