FACULTY OF PURE AND
APPLIED SCIENCES
MONA
Year ending July 31, 2004
ProfessorRonald E. Young, BSc, MSc UWI, PhD St. And. – Dean
287
288
Dean’s Overview
INTRODUCTION
The year 2003-2004 in the Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences wascharacterized by signs of great hope and circumstances of great
concern. The situation in both sections of the merged Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science remains parlous in terms of staffing
and degree of organization and stability. Still, there is great potential and
signs of hope that will materialize only with care and attention.
The Faculty in responding to the need for maintaining standards
established a Faculty Quality Assurance Committee with initial mandate to
monitor closely and give feedback on teaching performance. The Faculty
is none-the-less cognizant that this mandate must quickly be expanded to
include the monitoring of research standards.
There is a clear realization in all sectors of the Faculty, that our plans to
improve our position globally as a university of the first order will be
attainable only if we are able to raise the financing to achieve this through
non-governmental sources and by improving the efficiency and
sustainability of our operations. There is optimism that our goals will be
achievable, but the map showing the pathways through which we will
arrive at our objectives is still only an outline. The importance of activities
directed at generating income for the Faculty and the Campus are starkly
highlighted. The diploma, certificate and taught Masters programmes
tailored to meet market demands, and the Salt Water Tilapia project from
the Department of Life Sciences and Mona Institute of Applied Sciences
(MIAS) continue to show great promise. The Natural Products Institute
(NPI) also shows progress through screening and characterizing products
from innovators who wish to procure appropriate toxicological tests and a
scientific basis for claims of efficacy of their products, and through
innovative value-added processing of traditional products whose export
289
market share has fallen for various reasons. All departments in the Faculty
have embarked upon additional projects aimed at generating income to
compensate for the budgetary shortfalls. The problem is that, in most
cases, the delivery of effective results will require significant time and
some initial investment before any potential gains will be realized. The
fear is that the necessary focus on income generating activity, by diverting
man power and ingenuity from our core business, may well impair the very
cause that it is intended to further - assisting the UWI to enhance its
reputation as a first rate teaching and research institution.
HIGHLIGHTS
Based on the forging of a FPAS driven inter-departmental and cross-
faculty consortium of groups offering to engage in the development of
natural products for national economic advancement, the Faculty, the
PIOJ and other collaborators in December 2003 presented to the National
Planning Council a proposal for an integrated, broad-based approach to
the Commercialization of Medicinal Plants. The Chairman, the Hon.
Minister of Finance, conceded that the presentation was the most
thorough and comprehensive that he had heard in his association with the
Council. Consequent to this, the Campus in March 2004 signed a MoU
with the PIOJ to seek funding for the proposal and to govern the
subsequent interrelationships.
Through the initiative of Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory (DBML, Dr.
Norman Quinn) and the NPI (Dr. Trevor Yee) the Faculty held
discussions with a research team from the University of Mississippi
regarding the acquisition of a major grant from the International
Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) to finance the collaborative
investigation of coral reef organisms with potential for yielding new drugs.
Work has begun, funded by an ICBG Planning Grant and agreements
regulating the working relationships are being forged. Qualification for a
comprehensive grant is an encouraging prospect.
Through the initiative of the Department of Geography and Geology the
Dean held discussions with Dr. Jeremy Collymore of the Caribbean
Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) on Disaster
Management in the Faculty. Subsequently, through the mediation of Dr.
Balfour Spence, grants for work in disaster management have been
garnered by members of the Department from CDERA and the Japan
International Development Agency (JIDA).
290
Drs. Alexandra Rodkina, Wen Bin Zhang, Yvette Jackson and
Mohammed Bakir were promoted to professorships.
Dr. R. Dunbar Steele who was on a post-retirement contract to steer the
salt water Tilapia project and coordinate the Summer School did not seek a
further contract. Ms. Patryce Allen also did not seek a renewed contract
on termination of her temporary appointments. Several other temporary
contracts were not renewed after expiry. Dr. Sasikala Potluri resigned
regrettably, for personal reasons.
Professor Tara Dasgupta's Pesticide Research Lab was accorded
UNEP designation as a Persistent Organic Pesticide (POP) Analytical
Lab. Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa received the Gleaner Honour
Award in Science & Technology for his work on the Environment and
Health, and the Vice Chancellor's award for All-Round Excellence. Dr.
Willard Pinnock received the Guardian Life Premium Teaching Award
for 2003/2004 and the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
The new MSc programme in Plant Production and Protection and the
MSc Natural Resource Management specializations in Tropical
Ecosystem Management and in Water Resources Management were
approved and offered for the first time in 2003/04. The MSc in Computer
Science was resuscitated by the Computer Science sub-department in
collaboration with the Mona Institute of Applied Science (MIAS) and two
new Diploma programmes, a Diploma in Plant Production and a Diploma
in Plant Protection, comprising sub-sections of the MSc in Plant
Production and Protection, were introduced by the Department of Life
Sciences.
At an awards ceremony at the Mona Visitors' Lodge and Conference
Centre on January 30, 2004, several members of the Faculty were
honoured by the University as outstanding researchers.
Professor Tara Dasgupta of the Department of Chemistry was
recognized for the most outstanding research project in the Faculty for his
work on "Mechanisms Involved in the Generation and Reactions of Nitric Oxide."
Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa, also of the Department of Chemistry,
was singled out for having attracted the most research funds for his project
on "National Hazardous Materials and Waste Inventory and Their Management
Policy Options."
291
Dr Anthony Greenaway's project on "The Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory
Chemical Analytical Facility" received the award for the most successfully
commercialized research project in the Faculty. He, too, is in the
Department of Chemistry.
The award for best publication was won by Dr Michael Taylor and
Professor Anthony Chen of the Department of Physics (and a
collaborator), for their paper entitled "Influence of the Tropical Atlantic versus
the Tropical Pacific on Caribbean Rainfall."
Dr Willem Mulder of the Department of Chemistry (and a collaborator)
also won a best publication award for their paper entitled "Theory of the Salt
Effect on Solvatochromic Shifts and Its Potential Application to the Determination of
Ground-State and Excited-State Dipole Movements."
SYMPOSIA & WORKSHOPS
In November 2003 the Faculty hosted a symposium on Science & Technology
in Economic Development. Among the speakers were Jamaicans in the
diaspora, Professors Trevor Campbell (Claremont Colleges, California)
and Reginald Nugent (California State Polytechnic University at Pomona).
The Chemistry Department hosted the 20th Biennial Mona Symposium
on Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry, chaired by Professor Paul
Reese, on January 5th to 9th. The Symposium drew its usual wide cross-
section of participants.
As a part of the Research Day 2004 activities, the Faculty, with the support
of the Principal's Office, hosted a conference on Science, Technology &
Innovation on January 28th to 30th. The conference, chaired by Professor
Ishenkumba Kahwa, had representatives from China, South America,
North America, South Africa, among other countries. The conference was
very successful and subsequent articles on the Chemistry Department in
the widely-read journal Chemical Engineering News drew attention to the
excellent work being carried out in that Department.
With the assistance of the Campus, the Faculty through the Department
of Life Sciences and the MIAS, in collaboration with the McGuire Centre,
University of Florida, held a two day workshop in June, chaired by Dr.
Eric Garraway, on "Utilization and Conservation of Jamaica's Fauna: A Case
Study of Jamaica's Butterflies." Many local organizations were represented
including the Ministries of Tourism and Agriculture, TPDCo, NEPA,
292
JCDT, The Nature Conservancy (Jamaica) and potential investors. It was
widely agreed that the ground-work of the Department of Life Sciences in
the study of butterflies and moths had been exemplary and that the
commercial possibilities were wider than any single group could
encompass. The UWI was mandated to co-ordinate the establishment of
a Butterfly Farming Working Group to oversee the development of an
industry in Jamaica. Follow-up is in progress.
OUTREACH
In November 2003 the Dean along with a team from the Natural History
Division of the Institute of Jamaica met with the Minister of Education,
Youth and Culture to discuss the parlous state of Science Education in the
country and to suggest initiatives which could assist in improving the
appreciation of science in the schools and re-invigorating the science
competitions. The Minister made several suggestions for follow-up and
has suggested that another meeting might be in order. Further
correspondence is being prepared.
In November also, the Faculty through the mediation of Dr. Howard
Reid of the MIAS hosted a group of students from CASE. In May 2004 a
group of 9-10 year olds from St. Theresa's Preparatory School toured the
Faculty.
In March 2004 the Chemistry Department hosted a 4-day Spectroscopy
Workshop for about 400 CAPE students and teachers, under the direction
of Dr. Marvadeen Singh-Wilmot.
PUBLICATIONS
Compared with 2002/2003, the total staff complement increased by two
and refereed publications increased from 98 to 102; per capita output
therefore rose to 0.98 compared with 0.96 last year. Non-refereed and
conference presentations together again rose this year but only by 17%
from 151 last year to 177. Mathematics and Computer Science showed a
marked fall partly, perhaps, due to under-reporting. Biotechnology and
Life Sciences both rose markedly due to the production of special volumes
locally (Biotechnology: 10 articles in an issue of the Jamaican Journal of
Science & Technology highlighting the work of the Biotechnology Centre)
and internationally (Life Sciences: a volume of the prestigious Bulletin of
Marine Science, edited by Drs Mona and Dale Webber with 18 articles
focusing on the work on Kingston Harbour, 14 of which were from Life
293
Sciences personnel.) A disappointing aspect is that apart from these
articles only one other refereed journal article was produced by the
Department. The Department of Geography & Geology continues to
dominate the teaching departments in output of publications in both
refereed (1.4/staff member, down from last year) and non-refereed/
conference presentations.
Department No. Acad. Refereed Non-Refereed Conference
Staff Publicatons Publications Presentations
Biotechnology Centre 5 10+3 – 26
Chemistry 23 30 15 10
Geography & Geology 8+6 20 4 48
Life Sciences 19 18 1 14
Mathematics & 15+8 7 3 5
Computer Science
Physics 14 3 (+1 patent) 2 12
Centre for Marine Sciences 2 6 16 17
Electron Microscopy Unit 2 5 1 1
NPI/MIAS 3 0 0 2
TOTAL: 104 102 42 135
UNDERGRADUATE
In 2003/2004 the Faculty registered a total of 1431 students, an increase of
11.8% over the intake in 2002/2003, when 1280 students were on the
register (data supplied by the Student Records System). The Table below
shows the number of individual courses and total registrations in these
courses. Despite having 24 and 18 courses on the books for 2003/04,
Geography and Geology respectively seem to have registered students
only in 17 and 14 courses. Thus, only in Mathematics and Geology did the
course numbers fall, with increases in Computer Science, Geography and
Physics, despite admonitions to reduce undergraduate contact hours. The
mean number of students per course rose in all cases except in Computer
Science.
UNDERGRADUATE
Department No of Total Enrol- Mean Load/Staff
Courses Credits ment No./ Member
Course
294
Chemistry 24 120 1761 73.4 1.0* 5.2

Geogr/Geology: Geog 17 72 754 44.4 2.1 9.0
Geol 14 64 315 22.5 2.3 10.7
Life Sciences 38 164 2036 53.6 2.0 8.6
Math & CompSci: CSci 15 64 1337 89.1 1.9 8.0
Math 26 114 1855 71.3 1.7 7.6
Physics 26 120 1015 39.0 1.9 8.6
TOTAL 162 726 9073 56.0 1.8 7.9
*This column shows load as courses/individual. 
This column shows load as credits/individual
In Geology, total registration rose slightly from 305 to 315. With the fall in
number of courses offered, the mean number of students per course
therefore rose from 18 to 22.5.
2001/2002 2002/2003 2003/2004
Level of Degree N % N % N %
First 32 10.9 27 9.4 26 9.5
Upper Second 92 31.4 87 30.4 81 29.6
Lower Second 88 30.1 90 31.5 70 25.5
Pass 32 10.9 37 12.6 35 12.8
Fail 49 16.7 46 16.1 62 22.6
Total Sitting 293 100.0 287 100.0 274 100.0
Total Registered 1224 1280 1280
Failure rate in the undergraduate final examinations rose from a steady
value of about 16% to 22.6%, while the percentage of First Class Honours
remained at around the 10% mark. The cause for the rise in failure rate is
consistent with complaints that increased intake has been achieved at the
expense of a generally lower level of preparedness of the students. A real
connection however, has not been demonstrated. A more detailed study
of the relationship between entry qualifications and performance will be
undertaken.
GRADUATE
In 2003/2004, the Faculty registered a total of 392 graduate students in
various programmes, compared with 324 in 2002/2003, an increase of
about 21%, with the MSc registrations (up 73%) accounting mostly for the
change (excluding MIS students). The total number of research students
registered, however, also rose from 242 to 250 (3%). The combined
295
number of MPhil and PhD (research) students graduating in 2003/04 was
just equal to the average of research based students for the two previous
years combined suggesting that there is no trend here, despite year-to-year
variations.
Graduate
REGISTERED GRADUATING
2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04
MSc 86+56* 82+73 142+73 21+21 23+21 23+28
MPhil 178 181 188 12 14 15
PhD 42 61 62 5 10 5
Total: 306 324 392 38 47 43
*Half the number of MIS students - credited to the FPAS
The Geology sub-department still resists the introduction of taught
Graduate level courses and the Department of Chemistry evades the issue
of taught MSc programmes. In general, the engagement in Graduate
teaching is relatively low (mean Courses/Staff member = 0.74) except in
the case of Computer Science, in which there were 2.5 courses per staff
member with a mean enrollment of 36 students per course. The skew of
graduate to undergraduate teaching effort in the Computer Science sub-
department continues to be a matter of concern.
Graduate
Department No of Total Enrol- Mean Courses/Staff
Courses Credits ment No./ Member
Course
296
Chemistry 7 13 199 28.4 0.3
 1.3*
Geogr/Geology: Geog 12 57 146 12.2 1.5 3.6
Geol 0 0 0 n/a n/a 2.3
Life Sciences 14 56 33 2.4 0.74 2.5
Math & CompSci: CSci 20 68 721 36.1 2.5 4.4
Math 9 36 14 1.6 0.60 2.3
Physics 6 44 78 13.0 0.42 2.1
TOTAL 68 274 1191 17.5 0.74 3.0

This column indicates mean number of courses for graduate level only.
*This column indicates mean number of courses including both graduate and undergraduate levels
GRANTS
Grants reported to have been brought in from external sources fell by 4%
to J$79,611,415 from last year's J$ equivalent of $82,853,845, with the total
number of grants falling from 46 to 34.
DEPARTMENT Internal No. External No.
(J$eqlt)* Grants (J$eqlt)* Grants
Chemistry 4,069,872 4 17,063,000 9
Geography & Geology 0 0 15,337,000 6
Life Sciences 2,025,500 4 13,328,500 9
Mathematics & 308,600 2 0 0
Comp Science
Physics 0 0 302,500 1
Biotechnology Centre 0 0 14,404,415 3
Centre for Marine Sciences 218,000 2 15,425,000 5
NPI/MIAS 2,117,500 1 3,751,000 1
TOTAL: $8,739,472.00 13 $79,611,415.00 34
*Converted at a rate of J$60.5 to US$1
Reported Internal grants showed a small decline. The Departments of
Life Sciences and the Biotechnology Centre/Biochemistry showed
marked improvement in garnering grant money and have to be
commended.
CONCLUSION
The Faculty has again enjoyed a fairly vigorous year of activity. Growth,
however, has not been as marked as we might have wished in areas such as
297
publications and in earnings from income generating activities. We have
seen slight slippage in certain areas also, such as in the number of grants
garnered, and, less so, in the dollar amounts accrued from external sources
of funding. We would also like to see greater progress in terms of
curriculum reform aimed at increasing the efficiency of delivery of the
undergraduate programmes. With the increasing threat to our ability to
support graduate research programmes, it is heartening to note that the
number of research students registered rose slightly in 2003/04. This will
no doubt reverse in the coming years and the critical importance of
increasing the number and efficiency of the income generating MSc and
related programmes, and using the profits from these to support the
research thrust, will become increasingly clear.
298
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Professor Ishenkumba A. Kahwa, BSc (Hons), MSc (Dar es Salaam),
DPhil (Louisiana State) – Head of Department
Having outlined in the previous yearthe direction in which the Head of
the Department, Professor Ishenkumba
Kahwa intended to lead the Department,
the 2003-2004 academic started out with a
clear sense of direction especially in light
of the fact that there were not many
changes to the staff complement. And so,
the Department continued to carry out its
mandate in keeping with its strategic
mission and to ensure that the goals and
objectives are achieved.
UWI-Mona Policy Conference on Science, Technology and
Innovation
The Department played a key role in hosting on behalf of the Faculty of
Pure and Applied Sciences and the Principal’s Office the UWI Mona
Policy Conference on Science Technology and Innovation, which was
coordinated by Professor Kahwa and was held in January 2004. The
conference was attended by delegates from China, South Africa,
government science and technology agencies in the Caribbean,
CARICOM, UNESCO, USA and the UN University. It examined the
complex issues of science, technology and innovation policy formulation,
articulation and implementation in developing countries.
International Exposure for UWI’s Chemistry
Following on an invitation from Prof. Kahwa, the prestigious American
Chemical Society’s weekly magazine, Chemical and Engineering News, sent its
Associate Editor, Amanda Yarnell, to participate in the January 2004,
UWI Mona Policy Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation
and to research a story on chemistry and chemical engineering in the
Caribbean. Ms Yarnell subsequently visited the St. Augustine and Cave
Hill campuses in February and May 2004 respectively and wrote a series of
299
five articles focusing on chemistry in the Caribbean. The five stories were
published under the broad heading “MORE THAN JUST SUN AND
SAND” and covered sub-titles: 1) Chemistry at the Caribbean’s University
of the West Indies is thriving despite funding struggles, 2) Home Field
Advantage (a story on UWI’s natural products research programmes), 3)
Outsourcing –Foreign Pharma Firm’s Caribbean Research Outpost are a
Boon to UWI; and for the Web version of the magazine, 4) Turf Science (a
story on science in the cricket game) and 5) Women in Science (covering
staff and student genders at UWI). The articles were published in Chemical
and Engineering News 82(23) 31, (2004) and with free access (courtesy of the
publisher) on the Web: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/8223/8223sci1.html. The story
was very well received by the national, UWI regional and international
communities and brought valuable international exposure to the UWI.
Our alumni were particularly touched by the positive tone, detailed
coverage of key developments in UWI’s chemistry programme and the
dynamic and bright image that the articles portrayed. The international
UWI alumni found them comforting in their efforts to raise funds for the
UWI.
Designation of Pesticide Laboratory by UNEP
The Pesticide Research Laboratory, established in the Department by
Prof. Tara Dasgupta in the 1990s, achieved international recognition,
following its designation by the United Nations Environmental
Programme (UNEP) as a Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Analytical
Laboratory. The laboratory will be among a network of distinguished
facilities around the world which monitor a wide range of POPs. Prof.
Tara Dasgupta and his team had undertaken the necessary training and
instituted the requisite procedures for the laboratory to qualify for the
UNEP designation.
20th Mona Symposium on Natural Products and Medicinal
Chemistry
The hosting of the Twentieth Mona Symposium on Natural Products and
Medicinal Chemistry from January 5-8, 2004 was attended by over eighty
participants, thirty six of whom came from the United States, Canada, the
United Kingdom, Japan, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. There were
ten plenary lectures, thirteen short papers and twenty one poster
presentations. The oral contributions focused on the areas of organic
synthesis, microbial chemistry and genetics, natural product isolation,
biological activity, and NMR spectroscopy.
300
Closer Cooperation within UWI’s Chemistry Departments
During the second semester the Heads of Chemistry Departments of
UWI’s three campuses met to review the Undergraduate and Postgraduate
programmes in Chemistry and explore areas of closer cooperation. A
subsequent meeting was held in Antigua and included all three HODs,
along with Professor Yvette Jackson and Dr. Willard Pinnock from Mona,
Professor Dyer Narinesingh from St. Augustine and Dr. Terry Meeks
from Cave Hill campus. The aim of the meeting was to address the
proposed curriculum reform which would see all three Departments
moving toward having the same or similar core degree programme by
2005. A tri-campus core undergraduate curriculum reform proposal was
developed and is being discussed at the three campuses.
Programme Proposal in Occupational and Environmental Safety
and Health (OESH)
In an effort to address the shortage of regional capacity for dealing with
issues of occupational and environmental safety and health (OESH),
especially in view of the impending occupational safety and health
legislation, the Department (Prof. Kahwa) has teamed up with the Labour
Studies Programme (Mona School of Business)(Prof. Neville Ying) and
the Department of Community Health and Psychiatry (Mr. Milton
Pinnock) to develop and mount general interest, undergraduate and
postgraduate courses in these areas. The project is supported by the
Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) which provided J$1,392,000
and J$2,000,000 to develop the programmes and set up laboratories
respectively. The team members were drawn from relevant UWI
Departments as well as environmental, public and private sectors.
Student Enrolment
The Department saw a marked improvement in the intake of
undergraduate students with an increase of about 12.5% over the previous
year and, as for the previous year, a total of twelve new graduate students
were enrolled.
TOTAL STUDENT ENROLMENT IN CHEMISTRY COURSES
LEVEL 2001/2002 2002/2003 2003/2004
Preliminary 296 332 397
Introductory 406 496 533
Advanced 751 725 845
301
Postgraduate Full-time-45
(Research students) Part-time-10
STAFF MATTERS
Dr. Winklet Gallimore joined the staff as Lecturer in Organic Chemistry.
Dr. Sujit Dutta from the University of Burdwan, India took up a two year
Research Fellowship to work on Nitrovasodilators with Professor Tara
Dasgupta while Mrs. Jane Arimah, Research Fellow from the University
of Botswana and Elva Clarke (Research Assistant) joined the
Department to work with Professor Kahwa on the national Hazardous
Materials and Waste Inventory and Management Policies Project
sponsored by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica.
One staff member, Dr. Novelette Sadler-McKnight was on Sabbatical
Leave while Mr. David Mullings, Assistant Storekeeper resigned his
post.
There were five staff members from the Mona Administrative and
Technical Staff who were enrolled in part time undergraduate and
postgraduate studies.
On September 25, 2003 the Department mourned the passing of Mr.
Lincoln Edwards, our Gardener who worked in the Department for
over six years and a total of fourteen years with the University.
Achievements, Promotions and Awards
This year, two members of staff, Dr. Mohammed Bakir and Dr. Yvette
Jackson were promoted to professors. Professor Kahwa was awarded
the 2003 Gleaner Honour Award in the Category of Science and
Technology for application of his science to areas such as the environment
and health. He was also the recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s Award for
All Round performance in Research and Accomplishments and for his
contribution to Public Service.
Dr. Willard Pinnock secured a J$3.74 grant from the Environmental
Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) for a project on Air Quality in Kingston and
a UWI Research Fellowship for his work in that field. Dr. Pinnock was
also awarded the Vice Chancellor’s award for Teaching and he also
received the coveted “UWI/Guardian Life Premium Teaching Award”
for 2003/2004. Five staff members from the Department were recipients
of awards at the Annual UWI Research Day. They include, Dr. Willem
Mulder for Best Publication in the Faculty; Professor Tara Dasgupta for
302
Top Researcher/Research Activity in the Faculty; Professor Kahwa for the
Project which attracted the most funding in the Faculty and Dr. Greenaway on
winning the Faculty’s Most Successfully Commercialized Research Project.
Outreach and Public Service
The Department hosted the CAPE Workshop from March 9-12, 2004 and
attracted over four hundred sixth form students from several high schools
across the island. The students were exposed to Spectroscopic Methods of
Analysis, UV/Visible, Atomic Absorption, Infrared, Mass Spectrometry and
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The Workshops were coordinated by Dr.
Marvadeen Singh-Wilmot and was ably assisted by Professor Paul Reese,
Prof. Robert Lancashire, Dr. Dwight Ramdon, Dr. Danielle Aquart, Dr.
Sandra Jarrett, Dr. Norman Townsend and Mr. Paul Clare, a graduate
student.
In an effort to expose and stimulate interests in young science students the
Department conducted a tour on October 8, 2003 of the Campion College
Science Club for them to get first hand knowledge of the operations of our
Laser Lab, the Liquid Nitrogen Plant, the Glassblower and the Chemical
Crystallography Lab. In addition, arrangements were made for them to
visit the Tanaud International Lab where chemical principles and
techniques are employed to develop new drugs.
The Yallahs High School in St. Thomas was very pleased to have had Dr.
Paul Maragh, Lecturer in the Department participate in their school’s
Career Week–November 24-27, 2003 entitled ‘Career-An Essential of
Life’. Dr. Maragh made a presentation on ‘Career Opportunities in Chemistry’.
STUDENT MATTERS
Undergraduate Awards
Congratulations were extended to Miss Ainka Brown for winning the 2003
Gleaner Award in Education. Ms. Brown obtained a First Class Honours
degree in Chemistry and she was the Valedictorian at her graduation.
A total of seven undergraduate students from the Department received
awards ranging from $10,000 to $60,000 for their academic achievements
in Chemistry.
Postgraduates
303
Two graduate students completed their Doctor of Philosophy degrees,
namely Seon Hepburn and Kerry-Ann Bartley-Hynes while Madeen
Roberts-Miller, Sharonmae Shirley and Gillian Guthrie completed
their Master of Philosophy.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Dr. Winklet Gallimore received a grant of US$23,000.00 from the UWI
New Initiative Fund for her project on ‘Investigation of marine organisms in
Jamaican waters for bioactive metabolites’.
Dr. Anthony Greenaway received a total of J$938,208 from a variety of
industries and business establishments in support of the applied chemistry
undergraduate summer placement programme.
Professor Yvette Jackson received:
i) £1200.00 from the Royal Society of Chemistry for research in
`Synthesis of Aza-and Diazarotenoids’
ii) US$37,500.00 from UWI Office of Planning & Institutional
Research for Synthesis of Azarotenoids – ‘Novel Nitrogen
Analogues of Insecticidal, antiviral and Anticancer Agents’.
Dr. Sandra Jarrett received US$ 2,420.89 from Research and
Publications in support of her project, “Synthesis of 2 Amino-4-Vinyl
thiazoles, A route to Benzothiazoles and other Fused Ring Systems”.
Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa received:
i) J$2,000,000 from the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica in
support of the project ‘Start-up Funding for Undergraduate and
Postgraduate Programmes in Occupational and Environmental Safety and
Health (OESH) at UWI’.
ii) Research and Publications – US$3,798 in support of his team’s
work on ‘Lanthanide materials-syntheses, structure and
luminescence behaviour’.
Professor Robert Lancashire received US$20,000 from MDL
Information Inc. in support of their project on spectroscopic software
304
Dr. Willard Pinnock received J$3,736,090 from the Environmental
Foundation of Jamaica in support of his work on Development of
sustainable air pollution monitors Programme.
Dr. Novelette Sadler-McKnight earned the Department J$835,366.00
from outreach activities.
OTHER EARNINGS
Other earnings amounted to approximately J$8,335,000
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Bakir, M.
– Development of poly-pyridyl-like molecular sensors
Coley, M.
– Characteristics of bauxite that affect alumina extraction
efficiencies under low temperature digestion conditions (with
Dr. A.M. Greenaway)
– Hydrothermal synthesis of Boehmite and y-Alumina nano-
materials from bauxite waste liquor.
Dasgupta, T. P.
– Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
– Nitric oxide releasing compounds and their bioefficacies.
– Degradation and fate of pesticides and their metabolites
– Acrylamide in food and mechanism of its formation in living
system
– MTBE and other volatile organic compounds in the
environment
Ellis, H.A.
– Structural, Microscopic and DSC studies of lead (II), zinc (II)
and lithium carboxylates
Gallimore, W.
305
– Investigation of Marine Organisms in Jamaican Waters for
Bioactive Metabolites
– Isolation of pure compounds from marine algal species
Greenaway, A. M.
– Nutrient pollution in Jamaican coastal waters.
– Nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in ground and surface
waters and their fluxes to the coastal zone.
– Alumina extraction efficiencies in the Bayer process (the
process to extract alumina from bauxites).
Jackson, Y.
– Synthesis and chemistry of some biologically active heterocyclic
compounds and their analogues.
Jacobs, H.
– Natural products from selected species of the endemic
Jamaican flora.
Jarrett, S.
– The synthesis of 2-Amino-4-vinylthiazoles, a route to
benzothiazoles and other Fused Ring systems
– The Synthesis of an Aryl Analogue of Curacin A
– The Synthesis of Conformationally Restricted Analogues of the
Hypotensive Agent Caracasanamide.
Kahwa, I.
– Syntheses, structure and luminescence spectroscopy of rare
earth nanoclusters, their interactions with quantum dots,
potential applications in diagnostic and therapeutic biomedicine
and catalysis.
– Asbestos usage and pollution in Jamaica/Caribbean: Public,
occupational and environmental health impact and policy
lessons.
– Science-technology-development policy.
Lancashire, R.J.
306
– Chemical applications of the Internet.
– The JCAMP-DX spectroscopic data format and distribution of
scientific data via the WWW.
Maragh, P.
– Electron transfer reactions with di-nuclear iron (III) cyano-
bridged complex with sulfite, ascorbic acid and other reducing
agents.
– Synthesis and structure determination of sulfito-chromium (III)
macrocyclic complexes.
– Studies on extent of pollution by the gasoline additive, Methyl
Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) in Ground-water and Soil
– Determination of the levels of Acrylamide (possible
carcinogen) in Jamaican Foods.
Minott-Kates D.
– Changes of hypoglycin content in ackee during maturation and
with different ackee varieties.
– Comparison of the nutritional and anti-nutritional components
of several transgenic papaya lines with a non-transgenic variety.
– Chemistry of the water from different varieties of coconuts
grown in Jamaica and determination of the factors affecting the
production of pigments in processed coconut water.
Pinnock, W.R.
– Measurements of air pollution in the Kingston atmosphere,
conducted at 10 sites around the City using passive monitors
developed in the Department of Chemistry.
– Usefulness of red mud in Portland cement concrete building
materials.
Porter, R.
– Investigation, characterisation and identification of secondary
metabolites from several folklore medicinal plants.
– Extraction and characterisation of constituents of essential oils
from local aromatic plants.
307
Reese, P.
– Medicinal Plants. Plants, mainly from the Labiatae,
Scrophulariaceae and Capparaceae families, are being examined
to isolate and characterise the major natural products.
– Microbial transformations. Natural products of agricultural and
pharmaceutical interest are structurally modified by selected
strains of fungi in an effort to produce a range of new analogues
with enhanced bioactivity.
Sadler-McKnight, N.
– Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Rates of polypyridyl
ruthenium(II) complexes.
– Electron Transfer reactions of dinuclear molybdenum (V)
complexes.
Singh-Wilmot, M.
– Novel Lanthanide(III) based dendritic nano-devices: syntheses,
characterisation and luminescence spectroscopy and decay
dynamics
PAPER PRESENTED
• Mohammed Bakir, ‘The development of poly-pyridyl-like
molecular sensors’, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC,
April 20, 2003.
• ‘The development of poly-pyridyl-like molecular sensors’,
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Al, June 9, 2003.
• ‘The development of poly-pyridyl-like molecular sensors’,
Prairfie View A & M University, Prairie View,TX, June 23, 2003.
• “Chemistry Forum-Reform of the Chemistry Program at
Valdosta State University’, Valdosta, Georgia, April 24, 2004.
• “Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural properties of metal
compounds of polypyridyl-like hydrazones” 228th National ACS-
meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 26, 2004.
308
Professor R. Lancashire
• “Data Visualisation” ANALYTICAL LABORATORY
INFORMATICS, 23-24 June 2004 at the Sheraton Hotel
Conference Centre, Bristol University, Heathrow Airport,
London, UK.
• “Interactive Web Page Development with CHIME and JAVA” at
the Department of Chemistry, Bristol University, UK, in July
2003.
Dr. Paul Maragh
• Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Tetranuclear
Copper(II) Complexes Derived from Salicylaldimine-based
Ligands.
• Synthesis and Characterization of Some Oxo-Vanadium(V)
Complexes Involving Salicylaldimine-based Ligands. Attempts at
Preparing Insulin Mimicking Compounds. 226th National
meeting of the American Chemical Society, New York, NY
August 2003.
Dr. Donna Minott-Kates
• ‘Transgenic Carica papaya L. resistant to Papaya Ringspot Virus in
Jamaica: Development and safety assessment.’ Institute of Food
Technologists Conference in Las Vegas, USA, July 2004
Professor P. Reese
• ‘Fungal Transformation of some Terpenes and Steroids’ 20th
Conference on Isoprenoids, at Liberec, Czech Republic,
September 12-18, 2003.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed
* M. Bakir and O. Brown, “X-ray crystallographic and
optosensing studies of di-2-pyridyl ketone p-
nitrophenylhydrazone (dpknph) in dimethylsulfoxide (dmso)’,
Journal of Molecular Structure 2002, 641, 183.
309
* M. Bakir and C. Gyles, “Structural, Electrochemical and
Optical Properties of di-2-pyridyl ketone furoic acid
hydrazone”, Journal of Molecular Structure 2003, 649, 133.
* M. Bakir and C. Gyles, “Optosensing Behavior of the first
Ru(II)-compound of di-2-pyridylketone-p-
nitrophenylhydrazone (dpknph), [Ru(bipy)2(dpknph)]Cl2,
Towards Group 12 Metal Ions“ Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Mol.
& Biomol. Spectroscopy, 2003, 59, 2123.
* M. Bakir and O. Brown, “The Synthesis, Structure and
Physical Properties on the First Rhenium Compound of di-2-
pyridylketone benzoylhydrazone (dpkbz) fac-
Re(CO)3(dpkbh)Cl”, Inorganica Chimica Acta 2003, 353, 89.
* M. Bakir, I. Hassan, and O. Green “Manganese Carbonyl
Compound of N,N-bidentate di-2-pyridylketone (dpk) and
N,O,N-tridentate hydroxybis(2-pyridyl)methanolato
(dpkO,OH)”, Journal of Molecular Structure 2003, 657, 75.
* M. Bakir, O. Green, C. Gyles, B. Mangaroo and R. Porter
“Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Optosensing Behavior of di-
2-thienyl ketone p-nitrophenylhydrazone” Talanta 2004, 62,
781-789.
* M. Bakir, I. Hassan, C. Gyles, O. Green, O. Brown and T.
Johnson, “X-ray crystallographic, electrochemical and
spectroscopic properties of 2-pyridinio 2-pyridyl ketone phenyl
hydrazone chloride hydrate” Journal Molecular Structure 2004,
688, 245.
* M. Bakir, O. Brown and T. Johnson ‘X-ray crystallographic,
spectroscopic and molecular sensing properties of fac-
tricarbonylchloro(di-2-
pyridylketonebenzoylhydrazone)rhenium(I)
dimethylformamide solvate’, Journal Molecular Structure 2004,
691, 256.
* M. Bakir, I. Hassan, T. Johnson, O. Brown, , O. Green, C.
Gyles and M. Coley X-ray crystallographic, electrochemical and
spectroscopic properties of 2-pyridinio 2-pyridyl ketone phenyl
hydrazone chloride hydrate, Journal of Molecular Structure 2004
688, 213.
310
* T. P. Dasgupta with D. Aquart Dynamics of interaction of
vitamin C with some potent nitrovasodilators, S-Nitroso-N-
Acctyl-D, L-Penicillamine (SNAP) and S-nitrosocaptopril
(SNOCAP) in Aqueous Solution. Biophysical Chemistry 2004, 107,
117.
* T. P. Dasgupta, D. Ragoobirsingh and D. McGrowder The effect
of captopril on Blood Glucose, Plasma Insulin and Blood
Pressure via a nitric oxide Independent Mechanism in an
Animal Model. Diabetologia Croatica 2003, 32, 3.
* C. K. Riley, A. O. Wheatley, I. Hassan , M. H. Ahmad, E. Y. St.
A. Morrison, H. N. Asemota Starch, 2004, 56(2), 69. In vitro
Digestibility of Raw Starches Extracted from five Yam
(Dioscorea spp.) Species Grown in Jamaica
* S.M. Anatao, I Hassan, J B Parise. The structure of danalite at
high temperature obtained from synchrotron radiation and
Rietveld refinements. Canadian Mineralogist, 2003; 41(6)
* I Hassan, S M Antao, J B Parise. Sodalite: High-temperature
structures obtained from synchrotron radiation and Rietveld
refinements. American Mineralogist, 2004; 89 (2-3)
* S.M. Anatao, I Hassan, J B Parise. Tugtupite: High-
temperature structures obtained from in situ synchrotron
diffraction and Rietveld refinements. American Mineralogist,
2004; 89 (4)
* S.M. Anatao, I Hassan, J B Parise. Chromate aluminate
sodalite, Ca8(Al12O24)(CrO4)2: phase transitions and high-
temperature structural evolution of the cubic phase. Canadian
Mineralogist, 2004; 89(4)
* N.O. Townsend and Y. A. Jackson, Synthesis of 9-methyl-1H-
[1,4]thiazino-[3,2-g]quinoline-2,5,10-(3H)-trione, the B,C,D
ring core of the shermilamine alkaloids, Organic and Biomolecular
Chemistry 2003, 1, 3557.
* R. U. Richards-Johnson, A. J. Lough and I. A. Kahwa Acta
Crystallographica 2003, E59, m1022. [Aqua(N, N’, N’’, N’’’-
tetrakis(2-hydroxyethyl)-1,4,7,10-
tetrazacyclododecane)neodymium(III)]
perchlorate monohydrate
311
* I.A. Kahwa, Science 2003, 302, 1677. Developing World Science
Strategies
* M. Bakir, S. A. Clarke, I. Hassan, R. J. Lancashire and M.
Singh-Wilmot, trans-Bis(glycinato-k2N,O)copper(II) 4-
bromophenol solvate Acta Crystallographica 2004, E60, m868.
* W.H. Mulder, Effect of medium relaxation on the acidity
constants of electronically cited states obtained by the Förster
cycle method, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A:
Chemistry 2003, 161, 21.
* K.J. Donald, W.H. Mulder and L. v. Szentpály, Success and
failure of polarized-ion models: Bending and atomization
energy of groups 2 and 12 dihalides. Journal of Chemical Physics
2003, 119, 5423.
* K.J. Donald, W.H. Mulder and L.v. Szentpály, Valence-state
atoms in molecules. 7. Influence of polarization and bond-
charge on spectroscopic constants of diatomic molecules.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2004,108, 595.
* W.M. Mulder, J. J. Calvente and R. Andreu, The
electrocapillary effect at an electrode modified with an insoluble
redox-active self-assembled monolayer. Langmuir 2004, 20, 869.
* S. M. Antao, W. H. Mulder, I. Hassan, W.A. Crichton and J.B.
Parise Cation disorder in dolomite, CaMg (CO3)2, and its
influence on the aragonite + magnesite = dolomite reaction
boundary, American Mineralogist 2004, 89,1142.
* L.A.D. Williams, E. Vasques, W. Reid, R. Porter and W. Kraus
Biological activity of a leaf surface extrudes extract of Cleome
viscosa (Capparaceae), Naturwissenshaften 2003, 90 (10) , 468.
* D. C. Ramdon, D. A. Dixon, T. P. Dasgupta Kinetics and
mechanisms of the reduction of chromium(VI) by 2-
mercaptoethanesulfonic acid in aqueous solution: difference in
the mechanistic process of reduction with noncarboxylate
thiols, Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms 2003 (5), 47.
* D.O. Collins, W.F. Reynolds and P.B. Reese New Cembranes
from Cleome spinosa., Journal of Natural Products 2004, 67, 179.
312
* G.D.A. Martin, W.F. Reynolds and P.B. Reese Investigation of
the importance of the C-2 oxygen function in the
transformation of stemodin analogues by Rhizopus oryzae ATCC
11145., Phytochemistry 2004, 65, 701.
* P.L.D. Ruddock, D.J. Williams and P.B. Reese The reactions
of palladium(II), thallium(III) and lead(IV) trifluoroacetates
with 3 β-acetoxyandrost-5-en-17-one; crystal structure of the
first trifluoroacetate bridged 5,6,7-π-allyl steroid palladium
dimmer, Steroids 2004, 69, 193.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Professor T. Dasgupta:
– Chief Editor, Jamaican Journal of Science and Technology
– Director, Mona Institute of Applied Sciences
– Executive Member, Natural Product Institute
– Member, BSJ Committee for designing Metrology Building
– Member, National Agricultural Health and Food Safety
Coordinating Committee
– Member, Board of Editors, Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms.
– External Examiner, University of Guyana.
– Referee for Inorganic Chemistry, Dalton Transaction, International
Journal for Chemical Kinetics, West Indian Journal of Engineering
Dr. W. Gallimore
– Member, Planning Committee, 18th Conference on Science and
Technology
Dr. A. Greenaway:
– Member, National Ozone Commission
– Associate, Centre for Marine Sciences
Professor Y. Jackson
– Consultant, Tanaud International
– Regional Editor, MOLECULES
313
– Foreign Research Mentor for the Minority International
Research Training Programme, Barry University, Florida
– Member, Board of Governors, Hampton High School, St.
Elizabeth
Professor H. Jacobs:
– Member, Project Steering Committee for Enabling Activities
for Jamaica to Develop and implement the National
Implementation Plan for the Persistent Organic Pollutants
(POPs) Convention
Professor I. A. Kahwa:
– Referee for: J. Chemical Education, Inorganica Chimica Acta, New J.
of Chemistry, Thermochimica Acta, Inorganic Chemistry, Photochemistry
and Photobiology, West Indian J. Engineering and J. Coordination
Chemistry.
– Organiser, UWI Mona Policy Conference on Science,
Technology and Innovation
– Member, Mathematics Review Committee
– Member, Board of Directors, International Centre for
Environmental and Nuclear Sciences
– Member, Quality Review Teams for Chemistry at UWI St.
Augustine Campus and Cave Hill Campuses
– Consultant, Asbestos abatement and management for several
agencies
Professor R. Lancashire:
– University Representative, Board of the Jamaica Computer
Society Education Foundation
– Executive Member, Jamaica Society of Scientists and
Technologists
– Leader of IUPAC Task Group on EMR data structures
Dr. P. Maragh:
– Faculty Representatives, FPAS on WIGUT Executive
314
– Member, National Industrial Safety Committee, Bureau of
Standards
– Member, Museums Advisory Board, Institute of Jamaica
– Treasurer, National Council for Indian Culture in Jamaica.
Dr. D. Minott-Kates:
– Member, Jamaica Bureau of Standards Coconut Water
Technical Committee
– Member, Agro-Processing Resource Network
– Member, Scientific Research Council Board’s Sub-Committee
for the Food Technology Institute
– Member, National Agricultural Health and Food Safety
Coordinating Committee
– President, WIGUT (Jamaica)
– Director, Better Process Control School
– Member, Advisory Board – Guiding Light
– Member, FRIENDS – Jamaica AIDS Support
Dr. W. Pinnock:
– Member, National Radiation Safety Council, Ministry of
Health, Government of Jamaica.
– Member, Steering Committee for Food Irradiation, National
Commission of Science and Technology, Office of the Prime
Minister
Dr. R. Porter
– Member, Bureau of Standards Propane-Butane technical
committee
Dr. D. Ramdon
– Member, Organizing Committee for Caribbean Advanced
Proficiency (CAPE) Workshop 2003-2004.
Professor P. Reese
– Member, Equine Drug Testing Committee
315
– Member, Product Research & Development Committee,
Scientific Research Council.
– Vice President, WIGUT (Jamaica)
– Member, Sabbatical Committee
– Member, Car, House and Consumption Loans Committee
– Member, “New Initiatives” Subcommittee, chaired by Prof. F.
Hickling
– Reviewer for “Journal of Natural Products” and “Phytochemistry”
– Organising Secretary, Mona Symposium: Natural Products &
Medicinal Chemistry.
Dr. N. Sadler-McKnight,
– Member, Natural Resources Conservation Authority.
– Member, Technical and Finance Committee, Scientific
Research Council
– Council member, Jamaica Society for Scientists and
Technologists (JSST).
– Executive Secretary, Alumni and Friends of the Department of
Chemistry, UWI, Mona (CHEMSAF).
Dr. M. Singh-Wilmot
– Member, Organizing Committee for Caribbean Advanced
Proficiency (CAPE) Workshop 2003-2004.
316
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND
GEOLOGY
Professor Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, MA (Aberdeen), MS (Penn State),
DPhil (Oxon) – Head of Department
WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Department implementedchanges to its course offerings in
both Geography and Geology which had
been approved by AQAC at the end of the
2002/2003 academic year. These changes
were designed to rationalize and streamline
existing courses, in some cases merging
Geography and Geology courses deemed
to have some amount of overlap in their
syllabi. At the end of the 2003/2004
academic year, more changes to the Geology undergraduate programme
had been approved.
The first group of 14 teachers enrolled in the Geography specialism of the
new BEd Secondary (Distance) Programme funded by the Ministry of
Education registered for the two first-year Geography courses, one in
each semester. They were ‘taught’ by distance mode and sat the final
examinations in these courses in December and in April, respectively, and
spent two weeks in July 2004 completing the coursework component of
these courses on campus.
Two postgraduate students, Sherene James (Geology) and Karen Thomas
(Geography), spent the year at the University of Liverpool in the United
Kingdom as recipients of Commonwealth Split-Site Awards.
Eighteen students graduated in November 2003 with the MSc degree in
Integrated Urban and Rural Environmental Management. In the current
year 14 students are registered in this programme, which is coordinated by
Professor Elizabeth Thomas-Hope in the Environmental Management
Unit.
318
The inaugural mounting of the MSc in Water Resources Management,
which was run by Professor Jasminko Karanjac, attracted eleven
students.
Fourteen students, including five from Appalachia State University (USA),
registered for the summer course GL30D: Analysis and Management of
Natural Hazards and Risks, which was once again run by Mr Rafi Ahmad.
In July the Department welcomed Professor William Gould, University of
Liverpool, who came as external examiner for Corin Bailey’s Geography
PhD thesis. As undergraduate external examiner for Human Geography,
Professor Gould also reviewed examination scripts from the Semester 2
examinations, and held very useful discussions with staff.
The Marine Geology Unit, headed by Professor Emeritus Edward
Robinson, commenced work on two projects funded by the
Environmental Foundation of Jamaica. The first, funded to the extent of
J$120,000, to examine offshore deposits of sand on the south coast shelf
of Jamaica, for potential commercial exploitation, was completed in
March 2004 and a report was submitted to the funding agency.
The second, a two-year study of beach erosion and other coastal changes
in relation to hazards in selected coastal communities in Jamaica, began in
March 2004, under the management of Professor Robinson. Funding for
this project was J$5.9 million.
A one-year project to examine the sediment budget of the Rio Grande
watershed and its effect on the beach sediments at St Margaret’s Bay,
Portland, received funding of US$24,000 from NEPA-USAID through
Associates in Rural Development as a part of the Ridge to Reef Watershed
Project. This project, a follow-up to work carried out last year,
commenced in February 2004 and has been assisted by the acquisition of
computer equipment from USAID. The co-chief investigators are
Professor Emeritus Edward Robinson and Dr David Miller.
The Sedimentary Basin Resource Assessment (SEBRA) Project, directed
by Dr Simon Mitchell, and supported by a grant from the Environmental
Foundation of Jamaica, entered its third year. Some of the results obtained
were presented at the Quarries Seminar in December 2003.
Dr Thomas Stemann, with principal investigator Dr S.K. Donovan
(Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands) and Dr
R. Portell (Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida),
319
worked on “The Pliocene reefs of Jamaica: implications for biodiversity
and faunal turnover,” focusing on the Hopegate Formation, Jamaica,
under a National Geographic Society grant.
Dr Stemann also worked with principal investigator Dr Daryl Domning
(Howard University, USA) on “The dawn of land and sea mammals in the
West Indies: Seven Rivers, Jamaica” under another National Geographic
Society grant.
Dr Balfour Spence continues to represent UWI on the Caribbean
Disaster Management (CADM) Project, an initiative of the Caribbean
Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) and the Japan
International Development Agency (JICA). Through this project the
Department has secured equipment valued at close to US$80,000 for use
in the development of its programme in disaster management. Dr Spence
has overall responsibility for community disaster management planning in
the project.
Dr Spence received two research grants from the Japan International
Cooperation Agency through CDERA. The grants are for conducting
research on the relationship among disaster, development and poverty,
and on the behaviour of residents of flood-prone areas during flood
events. The research is being conducted in collaboration with Dr Faisal
Butt.
Dr T. Katada of Gumma University, Japan, has been assigned as a JICA
short-term education expert to the Department to collaborate with Dr
Spence in drafting the programme content for a proposed MSc in
Disaster Management to be offered by the Department.
The Department was grateful for the donation of two sets of journals,
which will be placed in the University Library. A full set of the Journal of
Biogeography, from the personal collection of the late Dr David Watts,
Department of Geography, University of Hull, was donated to the
Department by his widow. Professor Colin Clarke, of the School of
Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, donated the
following sets of journals: Geography (from 1957), Transactions, Institute of
British Geographers (from 1960), Area (from 1965), Latin American Research
Review (from 1990), and Bulletin of Latin American Research (from 1967).
Professor Clarke has also undertaken to keep these journals up to date
annually.
320
The Department continued to administer the Earthquake Unit, the Unit
for Disaster Studies, and the Environmental Management Unit.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Dr Benedict Arimah
– Infrastructure spending in cities of developing countries.
Professor Wilma Bailey
– The impact of user fees for preventive care services on health-
seeking and coping behaviour in Jamaica (IDRC-funded).
– The effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the education sector
in Jamaica (UNESCO-funded).
Dr David Barker
– Alternatives to the traditional yam stick method of staking
yams.
Dr Faisal Butt
– Modelling groundwater flow in the alluvial aquifer of the lower
Yallahs basin, St Thomas, Jamaica.
Professor Trevor Jackson
– Mineralogy of the black sands of the south coast of Jamaica.
– Pumice deposits in St Lucia and Dominica.
– Heavy mineral analysis of the Grand Bay Formation, Carriacou,
Grenadines.
– Petrology of the pre-Soufrière volcanic rocks of St Vincent.
– Geochemistry of the Miocene bentonites of Jamaica.
– Petrology of the volcanic rocks of Antigua.
Dr Susan Mains
– Diaspora and transnationalism in relation to Caribbean
identities and Jamaican migration in New York, London,
Toronto and Kingston.
321
– Media images of undocumented immigration at the US-Mexico
border.
– A documentary film on “Ackees, burgers, and chips: an ABC of
Jamaican migration.”
– A book manuscript on “Travelling home: diaspora dreams and
stories of Jamaican migration.”
– The role of monuments, cultural heritage, and public spaces in
Jamaica.
– A short documentary film on “Site unseen: Kingston as border
city.”
Dr Simon Mitchell
– Sedimentology of Recent carbonate beach sediments in
Jamaica.
– Lithostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Yellow Limestone
Group, Jamaica.
– Lithostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the White Limestone
Group, Jamaica.
– Sedimentology and palaeontology of the Red Chalk (with Dr
C.J. Underwood, Birkbeck University, UK).
– Geology and stratigraphy of the Central Inlier, Jamaica.
– Sustainable development of sand mining and sediment budgets
in Jamaican rivers (SEBRA Project).
– Palaeokarst in Jamaica (with Dr David Miller).
– Origins of sea cows (with Dr D. Domning, Howard University,
USA).
– Cretaceous and Eocene echinoderms (with Dr S.K. Donovan,
Leiden, The Netherlands).
– Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of rudist bivalves.
– Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of Jamaican Cretaceous
ostracodes.
– Taxonomy and evolution of the coleoidea.
– Palaeontology of sharks (with Dr C.J. Underwood)
322
– Geoarchaeology of Taino settlements in Jamaica (with Dr P.
Allsworth-Jones)
– Geology and geochemistry of dolomite in the Caribbean.
– Strontium isotope stratigraphy of late Cretaceous rudists (with
Dr T. Steuber)
– Carophytes of the Maastrichtian-Palaeocene transition, Jamaica
and Puerto Rico (with M. Martinez, H. Santos and Dr Garcia).
Professor Emeritus Edward Robinson
– Use of historical air photographs, maps and satellite imagery to
determine direction and rates of coastline change in Jamaica.
– Larger foraminiferal zonation for the Tertiary rocks of Jamaica.
– Taxonomy of the lepidocyclinids (larger foraminifera).
– Use of strontium isotope ratio dating for the Eocent-Miocene
limestones of Jamaica.
Mr Remy Sietchiping
– Spatial analysis of HIV/AIDS/STI in the Caribbean.
– Modelling informal settlements in developing countries by
means of GIS and cellular automata.
– Using remote sensing data to investigate land degradation and
sedimentation in Péligre dam, Haiti.
Dr Balfour Spence
– Behaviour of residents of flood-prone areas during flood events
(with Dr Faisal Butt, Virginia Clerveaux, and Dr Veront
Satchell)
– Relationship among disaster, development and poverty in the
Caribbean (with Dr Faisal Butt, Virginia Clerveaux, and Dr
Veront Satchell)
Dr Thomas Stemann
– Structure of reef coral diversity in the Late Pliocene Hopegate
Formation of Jamaica.
– Coral communities in the Late Cretaceous of Jamaica.
323
– The ecology of Late Pleistocene Acropora in Jamaica.
– Fossil vertebrates of the Jamaican Eocene (with Dr Daryl
Domning)
Professor Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
– The role of environmental management in economic
performance in the Caribbean in the second half of the
twentieth century.
– Biodiversity and land management in small farming systems in
Jamaica.
– International migration, including Caribbean skilled migration,
transnationalism, remittances, irregular migration, and
trafficking in persons. Policy implications of the new trends in
international migration in the context of current patterns of
globalization.
PAPERS PRESENTED
B. Arimah
• “Vulnerability to environmental health risks in developing
countries” (poster). IHDP Open Meeting, Montreal, Canada,
October 16-18, 2003.
• “Variations in home ownership in African cities.” International
Conference on Adequate and Affordable Housing for All:
Research, Policy and Practice, Toronto, Canada, June 24-28,
2004.
• “What drives infrastructure spending in cities of developing
countries?” City Futures International, Chicago, USA, July 8-10,
2004
W. Bailey
• (with C. Branche, J. Jackson & A. Lee) “Fatherhood in risk
environments.” Mona Academic Conference: Gender in the 21st
Century, UWI, Jamaica, August 29-30, 2003.
• (with S. Lalta, G. Gordon-Strachan, E. Ward & A. Henry-Lee)
“Linking researchers and policy makers: some challenges and
approaches.” Extension of the Social Protection in Health
Seminar (PAHO/WHO), Bogota, Colombia, October 6-8, 2003.
324
• (with A. McCaw-Binns) “The HIV epidemic and the supply of
educators and the demand for education in Jamaica.”
HIV/AIDS: The Power of Education (UNICA/UWI/
UNESCO Conference), Trinidad & Tobago, October 30-31,
2003.
• (with A. McCaw-Binns) “Barriers to accepting HIV/AIDS
affected children into basic and primary schools in the KMA.”
UNESCO HIV/AIDS Seminar, Jamaica, March 19, 2004.
• (with A. McCaw-Binns) “”Barriers to accepting HIV/AIDS
affected children into the school community.” HIV/AIDS:
Research Partnerships for Action, Jamaica, June 10-13, 2004.
D. Barker
• “Indigenous technical knowledge in Caribbean agriculture: yam
farmers in central Jamaica.” Annual Conference of the Caribbean
Studies Association, St Kitts, May 2004.
T. Jackson
• (with R.E.A. Robertson & P. Scott) “High MgO basalts of St
Vincent, West Indies.” International Union of Geophysics and
Geodesy, Sapporo, Japan, June 30-July 11, 2003.
• (with R.E.A. Robertson & P. Scott) “A new geological map of St
Vincent, West Indies: beyond walls: multidisciplinary
perspectives.” School for Continuing Studies Conference, St
Vincent & the Grenadines, 2003.
• (with S.K. Donovan, I. Brown & S. Wood) “Small is beautiful?
Progress at the Geology Museum, UWI, Mona, since 1988.” VII
International Cultural Heritage in Geosciences, Mining and
Metallurgy: Libraries-Archives-Museums, Leiden, 2003.
S. Mains
• “Life and debt, freedom not yet: consuming and viewing global
bodies in Jamaica.” Special Session on Integrating Economic and
Feminist Geographies, Annual Royal Geographical
Society/Institute of British Geographers Conference, London,
UK, September 2003.
• “City cultures and Caribbean spaces: site(ing) stories.” Text and
Testimony Collective Conference, Bridgetown, Barbados,
December 2003.
325
• “(Re)producing citizenship and space: film narratives and
documenting dialogues with(in) the Jamaican diaspora.” Special
session on Jamaican film, Annual English and Film Conference –
the Persistence of Form: Culture, History and the Aesthetic,
Tallahassee, USA, January 2004.
• “Border crossing: a social geography of travel and Jamaican
migration.” Department of Geography, University of Toronto,
Canada, February 2004.
• “Excavating emigration.” Graduate seminar on Critical Issues in
Caribbean Studies, Sociology Department, University of the West
Indies, Mona, Kingston, March 2004.
• “Translating mobility: documenting diaspora and stories of
Jamaican migration.” Geography of Film Symposium, The
Geography of Cinema: A Cinematic World, Mainz, Germany,
June 2004.
• “Representing foreign: negotiating Jamaican migration between
New York, London and Kingston.” Special Session on
Rethinking Migrants, Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, March 2004.
• “Memory and migration: documenting the Jamaican diaspora.”
Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, St
Kitts, May 2004.
S. Mitchell
• (with S. Khan) “Dynamic controls on grain size distribution on a
tropical carbonate beach, Jamaica, W.I.” Quaternary Coastal
Morphology and Sea Level Changes, Puglia, Italy, September
2003.
• (with N. Miller) “The Sebra Project.” The Quarries Seminar,
UWI, Mona, December 2003.
• “Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous rocks of the Central Inlier,
Jamaica.” 21st Annual Symposium on Caribbean Geology:
Caribbean Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy, University of
Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, February 25-29, 2004.
326
• “Morphology, microstructure and stratigraphy of some small, late
Cretaceous radolitid rudists from Jamaica.” 21st Annual
Symposium on Caribbean Geology: Caribbean Palaeontology
and Biostratigraphy, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez,
February 25-29, 2004.
R. Sietchiping
• (with R. Wyatt & H. Hossain) “Urban informal settlements
within less developed countries: a simulation.” Planning Institute
of Australia, Tasmania, Australia, February 22-26, 2004.
• “How informal settlements grow: a modelling approach.”
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, USA, March 14-19, 2004.
• “Where do we go from here: predicting informal settlements
dynamics.” Institute of Australian Geographers Conference,
Adelaide, Australia, April 13-16, 2004.
• (with S. Mains & M. Clifford) “Socio-spatial perspectives on
HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.” World Conference on Health
Promotion and Education, Melbourne, Australia, April 26-30,
2004.
• (with R. Louis & J.P.M. Basquiet) “Utilisation de la télédetection
dans l’étude de dynamique de la degradation des sols et de la
sédimentation du lac Péligre, Haiti” (English title: “Using remote
sensing to study land degradation and sedimentation in Péligre
dam, Haiti”). Proceedings of the Journées Internationales de
Télédetection, Ottawa, Canada, May 24-29, 2004.
• “Paradigm shift: improving future slum policies in developing
countries using prediction.” International Housing Conference,
Toronto, Canada, June 24-27, 2004.
• “Using simulation and modelling techniques to inform housing
policies in developing countries.” European Network for
Housing Research, Cambridge, UK, July 2-6, 2004.
• “Planning the unplanned: modelling informal settlements by
means of GIS and cellular automata.” International Planning
History, Barcelona, Spain, July 14-17, 2004.
B. Spence
327
• (withE. Jones) “Potential impact of climate change and severe
weather events on urban water resources in Jamaica.”
CDERA/IDB Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather
Events in Asia and the Caribbean, Barbados, July 24-25, 2003.
• (with F. Butt & V. Clerveaux) “Flood hazard mapping and
community disaster management planning.” Inter-Regional
Seminar on Flood Hazard Mapping and Its Use in Community
Disaster Management Planning in the Caribbean and Central
America, Barbados, February 16-17, 2004.
T. Stemann
• “Reef coral diversity in the Late Maastrichtian of Jamaica.”
Evolution and Phylogeny Session, 9th International Symposium
on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz, Austria, August 3-7, 2003.
• (with S.K. Donovan & R.W. Portell) “Late Pleistocene reef coral
associations from the Hopegate Formation of northern Jamaica:
were there coral communities in the Caribbean during the
Eocene?” Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section/
Southeastern Section Joint Meeting, Tysons Corner, USA, March
25-27, 2004.
(with S.K. Donovan, R.W. Portell) “Macropalaeontology of the
Hopegate Formation, Jamaica, an Upper Pliocene raised reef.” Geology
Society of America, Northeastern Section/Southeastern Section Joint
Meeting, Tysons Corner, USA, March 25-27, 2004.
E. Thomas-Hope
• “Caribbean migration and development.” Conference on
Caribbean Issues, organized by the US State Department for US
diplomatic staff and State Department advisers, Washington, DC,
October 18-20, 2003.
• “New areas of research in Caribbean migration and their policy
implications.” 86th Session of the Council of the International
Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland, November 19-
20, 2003.
• “Globalization and the future of Caribbean agriculture:
alternative strategies and environmental implications.” Royal
Institute of International Affairs, London, November 25, 2003.
328
• “Caribbean migration and diaspore: from labour migration to
transnationalism.” UNESCO workshop on Con- ceptualizing
Caribbean Migration and Diaspora, UWI, Mona, March 6, 2004.
• “Environmental education in Jamaican schools.” Institute of
Education, UWI, Mona, March 22, 2004.
• “Sustainable rural development policy.” Chair, Planning Institute
of Jamaica conference, Kingston, April 21, 2004.
• “Water management and sanitation in Jamaica.” Session chair,
NEST workshop on Water, Health and the Environment,
Kingston, April 28, 2004.
• “Strategies and policies for watershed management.” Annual
retreat of the National Watershed Management Commission,
Runaway Bay, Jamaica, May 7-8, 2004.
• “Human trafficking in the Caribbean.” International meeting of
the International Organization for Migration on Improving Data
on Human Trafficking, Rome, May 27-28, 2004.
• “Belonging and the sense of home among Caribbean migrants.”
Session chair, Caribbean Studies Association, Basseterre, St Kitts,
June 3-4, 2004.
• “Social and economic implications of migrant remittances for the
Caribbean.” Regional seminar on Migrants’ Money Remittances:
An Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean, organized
by the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American Economic
System and the Andean Development Corporation, Caracas,
Venezuela, July 26-27, 2004.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed
* B. Arimah. “Measuring and explaining the provision of
infrastructure in African cities.” International Planning Studies, 8, 3,
2003, 225-240.
* B. Arimah. “Nature, determinants and prospects for
sustainable human development in the Arab region.” In B.
Laabas (ed.), Arab Development Challenges of the New Millennium,
Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, 429-457.
329
* W. Bailey, C. Branche & A. Henry-Lee. “Gender relations and
conflict management in inner city communities in Jamaica: the
importance of community participation.” In J. Pugh & R. Potter
(eds.), Participatory Planning in the Caribbean: Lessons from Practice,
Ashgate, UK, 2003.
* A. Henry-Lee, W. Bailey & C. Branche. “Conflict, gender
relations and the health of women.” In S. Arber & E. Vilquin
(eds.), Social and Economic Patterning of Health among Women, Paris,
CICRED, 2003.
* R.B. Potter, D. Barker, D. Conway & T. Klak. The Contemporary
Caribbean, Harlow Essex: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2004 (520 pp.).
* S.K. Donovan, R. Pickerill, R. Portell, T. Jackson & D.A.T.
Harper. “The Miocene palaeobathymetry and
palaeoenvironments of Carriacou, the Grenadines, Lesser
Antilles.” Lethaia, 36, 3, 255-272.
* S.K. Donovan & T. Jackson. “Quo vadis the Transactions?
Publishing strategy and the future of the Caribbean Geological
Conferences.” Caribbean Journal of Science, 40, 1, 2004, 1-7.
* S. Mains. “Teaching transnationalism in the Caribbean: toward
an understanding of representation and neo-colonialism in
human geography.” Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 28, 2,
2004, 315-330.
* S. Mains. “Imagining the border and southern spaces:
cinematic explorations of race and gender.” GeoJournal, 59, 4,
2004, 253-264.
* S. Mains, A. Oberhauser, D. Rubinoff, K. DeBres & C. Pope.
“Geographic perspectives on women: geography and gender.”
In G. Gaile & C. Wilmott (eds.), Geography in America at the Dawn
of the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, 738-
760.
* S. Mitchell. “Morphology, microstructure and stratigraphy of
some late Cretaceous radiolitid rudists from Jamaica.” Geologica
Croatica, 56, 2003, 149-171,
* S. Mitchell, D. Miller & R. Maharaj. “Field guide to the
geology and geomorphology of the Tertiary limestones around
330
the Central Inlier, Jamaica.” Caribbean Journal of Earth Science, 37,
2003, 39-48.
* S. Mitchell. “Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of central
Jamaica.” In C. Bartolini, R.T. Buffler & J.F. Blickwede (eds.),
The Circum-Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean: Hydrocarbon Habitats,
Basin Formation, and Plate Tectonics, American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Memoir 79, 2004, 605-623.
* S. Mitchell, T. Stemann, D. Blissett, I. Brown, W. O’Brian
Ebanks, G. Gunter, D. Miller, A. Pearson, B. Wilson & W.
Young. “Late Maastrichtian rudist and coral assemblages from
the Central Inlier, Jamaica – towards an event stratigraphy for
shallow-water Caribbean limestones.” Cretaceous Research, 25,
2004, 499-507.
* K. Drobne, V. Cosovic & E. Robinson. “Velike miliolide
zgornje krede in paleogena skozi prostor in cas.” Geologija, 45, 2,
2002, 359-366.
* E. Robinson. “Changes along the coast of Vere, Jamaica, over
the past two hundred years: data from maps and photographs.”
Quaternary International, 120, 2004, 153-161.
* K.J. Cunningham, J.L. Carlson, G.L. Wingard, E. Robinson &
M.A. Wacker. “Characterization of aquifer heterogeneity using
cyclostratigraphy and geophysical methods in the upper part of
the karstic Biscayne aquifer, southeast Florida.” US Geological
Survey Water Resources Investigative Report WRIR 03-4208,
2004 (46 pp.).
* T. Stemann. “Coral reef diversity in the Late Maastrichtian of
Jamaica.” Berichte des Institutes für Geologie und Paläontologie der Karl-
Franzens-Universität Graz/Austria, 7, 2003, 105.
* E. Thomas-Hope & B. Spence. “Jamaica.” In H. Brookfield,
H. Parsons & M. Brookfield (eds.), Agrodiversity: Learning from
Farmers across the World, United Nations University Press, Tokyo
and New York, 2003, 270-292.
* E. Thomas-Hope. “Poverty and irregular migration in the
Caribbean.” In G.J. Borjas & J. Crisp (eds.), Poverty, Migration and
Asylum, Palgrave MacMillan, London, 2004, Chapter 14.
Non-Refereed
331
* S. Mains. “Developing film: media and geography
roundtable.” Place and Culture: Cultural Geography Specialty Group
Newsletter, Spring 2004.
* S. Mains. “Teaching geography and gender discussion forum.”
Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group of the AAG
Newsletter, March 2004.
* S. Mains. “Translating film.” Baile 2004, University College
Dublin, Ireland, 2004.
* E. Thomas-Hope. “Shifting location and negotiating place:
migration and gender in Caribbean migration.” Research Report to
the Centre for Gender Studies, UWI, Mona, 2003, 33 pp.
PUBLIC SERVICE
W. Bailey
– UWI representative, Board of the Jamaica Environmental
Foundation.
– Chief Examiner, CAPE Geography.
– Convenor of the Geography Panel, CAPE.
D. Barker
– Editor, Caribbean Geography.
– Chairman, Aqueduct Newsletter subcommittee, SCR Club.
– Member, Management Committee, SCR Club.
– Chairman, Steering Committee, Jamaica Geographical Society.
T. Jackson
– Member of editorial board, Jamaica Journal of Science and
Technology.
– Member, IUGS Commission on Geoscience Education and
Training.
– Member, Caribbean Community Ocean Sciences Network.
– Member, Standing Committee, Caribbean Geological
Conferences.
– Honorary member, Geological Society of Jamaica.
332
– Member, Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago.
– Member, American Geophysical Union.
– Member, Association of Geoscientists for International
Development.
S. Mains
– Board member, Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty
Group of the AAG.
– Editor, Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group of the AAG
Newsletter.
– Board member, Cultural Geography Specialty Group of the
AAG.
– Reviewer, GeoJournal.
– Participant and documentarian, The Jamaican Diaspora-
Reciprocal Relations-Way Forward Symposium, Kingston,
Jamaica.
– Expert witness (invited by Brent Law Community Centre, UK),
Asylum Hearing, Home Office, London, UK, 2003.
– Member, Fundraising Committee, Women in Film and
Television, Jamaica, 2003.
S. Mitchell
– Chairman, Commission on Jamaican Lithostratigraphy.
– Member, Technical Working Group on Jamaican Beach Policy.
– Council member, Geological Society of Jamaica.
– Editor, Caribbean Journal of Earth Science.
– Editor, Contributions to Geology (UWI).
E. Robinson
– Member, Caribbean Academy of Sciences.
– Honorary Member and Member of Council, Geological Society
of Jamaica.
– Member, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
333
– Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, and member of the
Selection Committee for the TWAS Prize in Earth Sciences.
– Member, Board of Directors of the Nature Preservation
Foundation of Jamaica.
– Member, Editorial Board of the Journal of the Institute of Marine
Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago.
R. Sietchiping
– Member, GIS Day Committee, UWI, Mona., November 2003.
– Member, Land Information Council of Jamaica.
– Member, essay and poster competition judging committee,
Scientific Research Council.
T. Stemman
– President, Geological Society of Jamaica.
– Member, Field Trip Subcommittee, and Earth Science Week
Subcommittee, Geological Society of Jamaica.
E. Thomas-Hope
– Chairman, Board of the Jamaica Social Development Network
(now an NGO).
– Member, Tribunal for the NRCA Act of the Ministry of Land
and Environment.
– Director, Jamaica Board of Engineers Foundation.
– Director, Luis Fred Kennedy Environmental Foundation.
– Member, Royal Institute for International Relations (London)
Caribbean study group, preparing a volume on critical issues
pertaining to the impact of current globalization on the
Caribbean.
– Member, International Scientific Advisory Team of the People,
Land Management and Environmental Change Programme of
the United Nations University, Tokyo.
– Member, editorial advisory boards of The Caribbean Journal of
Agriculture and Natural Resources, The International Journal of
Disability Issues, and Progress is Development Studies.
334
– Journal referee for Social and Economic Studies, Progress in
Development Studies, Population Geography, and The World Health
Organization Bulletin.
CATEGORIES OF STUDENTS
Undergraduates: Geography
Course Regd Sat Passed %Passed
GG10A Introduction to Human Geography 129 127 120 94
GG10B Introduction to Physical Geography 137 132 80 61
GG20R Geographical Thought & Research 38 38 35 92
Methods
GG21A Urban Geography 49 48 44 92
GG21B Geography & Development 55 52 48 92
GG22A Geosphere & Hydrosphere 60 59 49 83
GG22B Atmosphere & Biosphere 48 48 40 83
GG31C Tropical Agricultural Systems & 16 16 15 94
Development
GG31F Health & Society 14 13 12 92
GG31G Geographies of Tourism 15 15 13 87
GG32A Geomorphic Processes & Landforms 13 13 12 92
GG32E Climate Change: Concepts, 27 27 25 93
Causes & Issues
GG33B Urban & Regional Planning 29 29 29 100
GG33F Introduction to GIS & Remote Sensing 28 28 27 96
GG33H Environmental Resource Management 28 28 28 100
GG33K Disaster Management 32 32 32 100
GG360 Research Paper 36 31 27 87
Undergraduates: Geology
GL10A Introduction to Earth Sciences I 63 60 55 92
GL10B Introduction to Earth Sciences II 67 64 56 88
GL21A Palaeontology 20 19 18 95
GL22A Sedimentology 17 17 15 88
GL23B Igneous Petrology 17 16 15 94
GL24B Metamorphic Petrology & 13 13 12 92
Petrological Methods
GL25A Structural Geology & Geological 20 19 18 95
Mapping
GL30D Analysis & Management of Natural 14 14 14 100
Hazards & Risks
GL311 Field Geology 16 16 16 100
GL32A Caribbean Geology 16 16 15 94
335
GL33A Engineering Geology & 19 17 16 94
Hydrogeology
GL34A Advanced Sedimentology & 12 12 11 92
Fossil Fuels
GL35A Advanced Palaeontology 8 8 8 100
GL39J Marine Geology 13 12 12 100
Undergraduate Prizes Awarded
The Barry Floyd Prize for the best student in Level II Geography was
awarded to Soyini Ashby.
The Geological Society of Jamaica Scholarship was awarded to Lorraine
Richards.
The Harry Kuarsingh Memorial Bursary was awarded to Kirwin Ganga.
Postgraduates: Environmental Management
Fourteen students were registered for the MSc degree in Natural Resource
Management – Integrated Urban and Rural Environmental Management.
Eleven students were registered for the MSc degree in Water Resources
Management.
336
DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES
Dale F. Webber, BSc, PhD UWI - Head of Department
WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT
Teaching
The Department continued to enjoy thebenefits of the restructuring of its final year
program, over the last three years, to produce
four clear Majors and two Options. The number
of students registered in the Department
increased significantly, with level I courses
BB10A & B increasing by 20%, BL10L & M
increasing by 34% and Preliminary Biology
increasing by 16%. Registrations in advanced
level Zoology major Level II courses were lower
(18%) while Botany Major Level II courses
increased by 16%. The increase in registrations
for the new Environmental Biology and Experimental Biology shows
strong support for the restructuring exercise.
The BEd Distance programme started in 2003, continued over the
summer of 2003, with BL10L being offered in addition to the BL10M
offered to last year’s trial cohort. As was the case last year two senior
graduate students Metz Peterkin and Gale Persad delivered the courses
with Dr. Ralph Robinson acting as coordinator of the programme.
The Department successfully mounted a new MSc. in Plant Production
and Protection (PPP) with 9 students who are all registered part time and
should be graduating at the end of the 2004/05 academic year. Dr. Phyllis
Coates-Beckford is the coordinator of the MSc. (PPP) programme. This
is the second taught masters programme offered by the Department, as
the MSc TEAM which started with 3 students in 2002/03 continued with
a new cohort of 8 students in the 2003/04 academic year. This MSc. which
337
is coordinated by Dr. Peter Vogel was also delivered part time to allow
registered candidates to maintain job related activities.
The visit of one of the Department’s two External Examiners, Professor
Roger Marchant, was an extremely beneficial exercise as he was able to
comment on the courses, examinations, student performance and
examiner performance all within one week of the completion of the
examination process. This gave examiners the opportunity to discuss
grades, issues and course objectives while Faculty and University
examinations consultations were in progress, thus benefiting the students
and the system immediately rather than some three to six months later
when some of these benefits would no longer be available.
The annual Departmental Retreat examined several initiatives in teaching
and research. The employment of multimedia technologies in teaching
and graduate student training, the use of the internet in teaching and
research, and the consolidation of the Department of Life Sciences as an
integrated research entity all received strong support from staff. The
establishment of an academically enhanced operating environment and
the need for greater student involvement in practical-based projects in the
Department were also approved. The desire for follow-up information on
student placement, post-graduation, was recognized as a potential asset to
the Department as it prepares its offerings to reflect national and regional
needs.
The 16% budget cut faced by the Mona Campus loomed large throughout
the retreat discussions and decisions were taken for implementation over
the next academic year involving reduced staffing and income generation
projects.
Outreach
The Department continued to be active in its outreach programmes with a
strong link established with the community colleges which teach the
Preliminary Biology Course at five locations around the island. The
Department is not satisfied with the poor pass rates from some of these
Community Colleges (one in particular where all students failed) and thus
the outreach effort will be doubled in the 2004/05 academic year with a
specific coordinator appointed.
Dr. Mona Webber & Mr. Frederick Boyd moderated the Joint Board
for Teacher Education Double Option Biology exams. This opens the
door for greater collaboration between the Teachers Colleges and the
338
Department of Life Sciences as we all endeavour to have teachers of
science trained and enthused.
The marine life live exhibit (aquarium) in the Department of Life Sciences
booth on Research Day 28 and 29th Jan, was extremely popular and
proved a great crowd-pleaser. Special thanks are thus due to Mr. Marlon
Hibbert, PRML. A quickly constructed Departmental DVD by Dr. Mark
Thomas was also very popular as was the Life Sciences contribution of
live butterflies to the Bookshop booth by Dr. Audette Bailey.
World Wetlands Day saw the Department providing expertise in three of
the four national projects island wide, Dr. Eric Hyslop gave an
introductory talk on the importance of wetlands to an invited audience at
the opening of the Institute of Jamaica exhibition, Mr. Marlon Hibbert
assisted in the mounting of a wetlands display in Port Antonio at the Ridge
to Reef exhibition and Dr. Dale Webber gave the keynote address at the
World Wetlands Day celebration in Negril at the Royal Palm Reserve.
Other notable outreach activities associated with the Port Royal Marine
Laboratory were:
Jamaica Coral Reef Monitoring Network (JCRMN), Caricomp Training,
Earth Day Activities (April) - Mark Gold, Terrence Hall, Marlon
Hibbert; The National Ramsar Committee Membership- Mona
Webber, Marlon Hibbert, Palisadoes and Port Royal Protected Area
Committee, Planning Meeting Sustainable Operations of the Port Royal
Diver’s Chamber -Marlon Hibbert and Lime Cay Public Meeting –
Terrence Hall.
Plant and vehicles
The Departmental Land Rover, which was used for high mountain
expeditions, continued to be a major expenditure in terms of maintenance
and was sold in May with the hope of purchasing a new mountain terrain
vehicle with these and other funds to be identified. Through the offices of
the Deputy Bursar the Department was able to replace its vehicle lost by
theft which returns the departmental fleet to four (4) twin cabin light
trucks, a Land Rover and a 29 seater bus. The second Land Rover (which
was a gift from Cambridge University in 1996) and the oldest twin cabin
light truck, are not road worthy and sale of these items are being pursued.
Through the efforts of the Principal and the Deputy Bursar, the
Department was able to secure 30 insect proof herbarium cabinets to
339
bring the Herbarium to international standards as one of only two such
repositories in the island. Further assistance resulted in the procurement
of 25 Olympus microscopes essential to the teaching of advanced Biology
courses which allowed the increase in numbers of some courses.
Port Royal
The Port Royal Marine Laboratory (PRML) under the direction of Dr.
Mona Webber continued to be a pivotal part of the delivery of the Life
Sciences academic programme with 8 undergraduate courses and 3 higher
degree courses being taught from the facility and another 8 courses being
supplied by field collections from the laboratory. Approval to commence
general refurbishing of the buildings at PRML was gained from the UWI
Bursary the first phase of which will involve the main teaching lab or “wet
lab” and security issues. Refurbishing exercises completed over the year
were in the areas of sanitary facilities by the Maintenance Department.
Acquisitions at the PRML in the 2003/04 academic year include a 25 Ft
Eduardono Scuba Boat - “Navicula” (retrofitted- Port Royal Staff) a 21 Ft
used boat trailer (refurbished by Port Royal Staff), a Toyota Pickup 4x4
(1) and email connectivity (e-mail address: prml@uwimona.edu.jm). First
Aid Kits (4), fire Hose and Reel ( 2), fire Extinguishers (4) fixed and (4)
boat were also acquired through the University’s consultants: Safety and
Emergency Management Systems.
Staff Matters
The Department experienced a very active year which started with the
appointment of Dr. Dale Webber as Head of Department effective
August 1st 2003 for three years. Over the 2003/04 academic year Dr.
Mona Webber and Dr. Eric Garraway proceeded on sabbatical leave
and Ms. Gale Persad and Dr. Marcia Mundle joined the Department
for a year as Sabbatical replacements. Mr. Frederick Boyd was appointed
as a Lecturer on three year contract effective August 1st 2003 and effective
the same date Dr. Dwight Robinson and Dr. Paula Tennant both had
their contracts extended for a further three years. Also Dr. Tennant and
Dr. Byron Wilson received their contracts with indefinite tenure. Dr.
Dwight Robinson was promoted to cross the Merit Bar and Dr. Kurt
McLaren was promoted to Lecturer from Assistant Lecturer.
With these gains the Department also lost Dr. Sasikala Potluri who
resigned July 31st 2003. The Department wishes her the very best as she
joins her husband Dr. Devi Prasad who resigned during the previous
340
year. The retirement of Dr. Dunbar Steele, the first Head of the merged
Department of Life Sciences, and former Head of the Department of
Zoology and the retirement of Professor Brian Freeman from the
academic staff as well as the resignation of Mrs. Alicia Lyn Sue Chin and
Ms. Shernette Farquharson from technical positions resulted in a
significant loss in departmental expertise, however the rebuilding process
continues. Following these departures there will be renewals as the
Department advertised and should soon be welcoming two new Lecturers
in Horticultural Science and Coral Reef Biology, two areas of great
expectation in the coming years. Dr. Karl Aiken received his Ph.D. at
graduation Ceremony November 7th 2003 along with one other Ph.D., Dr.
Audette Bailey who was appointed Research Fellow effective March
2004.
Secretary Ms Karlene Anderson continued on no pay leave and was
temporarily replaced by Mrs Debbie-Ann Smith-Brown. Ms Anderson
returned to duties in January 2004. Scientific Officer, Mr. Michael
Buchanan was also granted one year no pay leave from December 2003
and his duties have been admirably performed by Mr. Wendel Christie.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Professor Emeritus Ivan Goodbody has found it necessary to relinquish
all laboratory and field work. Nevertheless he has continued a fruitful
collaboration with American scientists in documenting aspects of
biodiversity on the Belize Barrier Reef. The most recent results of this
collaboration will be published in a forthcoming issue of Atoll Research
Bulletin published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
Professor Goodbody has also continued collaboration with the Mona
Institute of Applied Sciences in preparing a CD-ROM depicting images of
Caribbean Ascidiacea for use by students and researchers needing to
identify animals in this Class.
Mrs. Charlotte Goodbody has continued to curate collections of marine
animals from the deep sea in the Department collections. In collaboration
with a German scientist she has published the description of a new species
of deep sea sponge collected from Jamaican waters.
Dr. Karl Aiken
– Research on fisheries interactions between fish trap and
dolphin mammals in the Whitehouse area with a view to
341
formulating fisheries management measures (with Nichelle
Oxford).
– Research on tilapia aquaculture (with Ben Sinclair).
Dr. Jane Cohen
– Effects of solarization and mulching on weed ecology and their
effectiveness as weed management strategies in organic
farming.
– Tree-crop interactions in contour hedgerow agroforestry
systems
– Herbicidal effectiveness of household disinfectants (with Mr D.
Hutton)
Dr. Kisan Vaidya
– Plant Breeding work is in progress in order to produce high
yielding and photoinsensitive cultivar(s) of roselle (sorrel).
– Genetics of morphological mutations in roselle.
– Genetic studies in moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia), mung
bean(Vigna radiata), and blue pea (Clitoria ternatea).
– Multiplication (initial increase of genetically pure seed) of
Dolichos lablab and Cyamopsis tetragonoloba for future work.
Dr. Mona Webber
– Water quality monitoring in mangrove lagoons using plankton
and traditional indices.
– Sponges of the Port Royal mangroves.
– Bivalves of the Port Royal Mangroves
– Change in mangrove root communities over time.
– Zooplankton secondary production in Discovery Bay.
– Zooplankton abundance and species at selected south coast
banks.
Dr. Paula Tennant
342
– Development of papaya (Carica papaya L.) germplasm resistant
to Papaya ringspot virus by genetic engineering and
conventional breeding methods.
– Development of transgenic West Indian Sea Island cotton with
resistance to insect pests.
– Evaluation of the diversity in Citrus tristeza virus and citrus
viroids.
Dr. Dale Webber
– Environmental management and planning
– Artemia (brine shrimp) production
– Oceanography and modeling of coastal ecosystems
– Contructed wetlands for waste water improvement
– Water quality assessment in coastal environments
Dr. Mark Thomas
– physiological studies that investigate embryonic exposure and
levels of growth factor in oxidative stress
Dr. Ralph Robinson
– Human public health importance of rat lung worm infections
that may result in meningitis in Jamaica.
Dr. Eric Hyslop
– Ecology and management of riverine systems
– Use of Benthic Macro Invertebrates as indicators in riverine
systems
Dr. Peter Vogel
– ecology and conservation of Jamaica’s terrestrial vertebrates
and their habitats
– assessment of the parrot population in the Cockpit Country
– an analysis of the influence of habitat quality on bird
composition in the dry forest life zone
Dr. Byron Wilson
343
– the revealing of predation on rare and endangered species by an
exotic predator
– documentation of repatriation of head-started Jamaican
Iguanas as an effective tool in the conservation of the critically
endangered species.
Research Grants and Awards
Dr. Karl Aiken
J$1.25M from the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica
Dr. Mona Webber
2003 (November) – EFJ (Environmental Foundation of Jamaica)
research grant for J$ 4,563,750. for the project: “The Mangrove
Ecosystem- A Biodiversity Hot-Spot.”
Dr. Byron S. Wilson
2003 Miami Metrozoo; for predator control study ($3750U.S.)
2003 Research & Publications Centre Fund, Mona Campus
($43,500JA)
2003 UWI New Initiative grant; for research on Jamaica’s
endangered forests and fauna ($16,000U.S.)
2004 Audubon Zoo (New Orleans); for predator control study
($1500U.S.)
2004 UWI New Initiative grant; for employing a field technician
($240,000JA)
2004 Conservation International; for research on the Jamaican
Iguana ($5000U.S.)
2004 Houston Zoo Naturally Wild Conservation Fund; for
research on Jamaican Iguana ($2500U.S.)
2004 International Iguana Foundation ($6500U.S., with P. Vogel)
Dr. Dwight Robinson
2003 JADF (Ja$3,387,500) Pest control of West Indian Sea Island
Cotton
344
2003 UWI (Ja$750,000)
2003 CIDA Green fund (Ja$2,175,500) Pest control &
management for Organic production of cabbages in Jamaica.
PAPERS PRESENTED
• CA Waugh, Lindo JF, Bishop K, Eberhard M & Robinson RD.
(2004). Angiostrongylus cantonensis – an emerging infection in
Jamaica. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention, Atlanta, USA (February 28 – March 4, 2004).
• CA Waugh, Lindo JF, Bishop K, J. Eberhard M & Robinson RD.
(2004). Report of an emerging zoonosis, Angiostrongylus cantonensis,
in Jamaica. Proceedings of the Northern Caribbean University
Science Symposium 2004 Jamaica (April 20, 2004).
• C.A. Waugh, J.F. Lindo, S. Fletcher, C. Cunningham- Myrie, M.L.
Eberhard, J. Lorenzo Morales, R.D. Robinson. Report on
current infections with Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Nematoda:
Metastrongylidae) in rats and molluscs in Jamaica. European
Multi-colloquium of Parasitology, Valencia, Spain
• S. Fletcher, C.A. Waugh, J.F. Lindo, J. Lorenzo-Morales, R.D.
Robinson. Studies of the intestinal helminths of dogs from the
Kingston Metropolitan Area, Jamaica, with special emphasis on
Ancylostoma sp. European Multi-colloquium of Parasitology,
Valencia, Spain
• L.P. Daley, D. Lewis, B.S. Wilson, P. Vogel, and R.D. Robinson
(2004). Comparison of the enteric helminth fauna of two
populations of Small Indian Mongoose in Jamaica. The Nature
of the Islands Conference, Trinidad & Tobago, 15-18 August
2004.
• RD Robinson, Cecelia Waugh, John Lindo, Karen Bishop and
Mark Eberhard (2004). Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Nematoda:
Metastrongyloidae) infection: an emerging zoonosis. The Nature
of the Islands Conference, Trinidad & Tobago.
• RD Robinson (2004). The GM debate must not neglect
developing countries. II International Workshop of the Latin
Amercican and Caribbean Bioethics Network. Havana, Cuba
(September 2-3, 2004).
345
• Wilson, B. S. 2004. Conservation of reptile diversity in a
Jamaican forest: experimental removal of the introduced Indian
mongoose. The Nature of the Islands: Trinidad and Tobago, 15-
18 August 2004.
• Daley, L.P., B. S. Wilson, P. Vogel, and R. Robinson. 2004.
Intestinal helminthes of the Indian mongoose. The Nature of the
Islands Conference, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, 15-18
August 2004.
• Small, H. Lue, K. Webber, D.F and Webber, M.K. 2003. Water
quality and plankton of the Conch Fishery area at Pedro Bank,
south of Jamaica. Association of Marine Laboratories of the
Caribbean, Annual Conference, Trinidad, July 2003.
• Elliott, T. and Webber, M.K. 2003. Temporal changes in
mangrove root communities from contrasting habitats in the Port
Royal mangroves, Kingston Harbour, Jamaica. Association of
Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean, Annual Conference,
Trinidad, July 2003.
• Hibbert, M. 2003. Seminar “Kingston Harbour in the Year 2025”
• Abdulkadri, A., Pinnock, S., and Tennant, Paula. (2004) Public
perception of Genetic engineering and the choice to purchase
Genetically modified food. Annual Meeting of the American
Agricultural Economics Association, Denver, Colorado, August
1-4, 2004
• Tennant, Paula., Chin, M., Pinnock, S., Powell, M., Wheatley, A.
O., Roberts, M., Minott, D., Jackson-Malete, J., and Gonsalves,
D. (2004) Transgenic Carica papaya L. resistant to Papaya
ringspot virus in Jamaica: Development and safety assessment.
Institute of Food Technologists? Annual General meeting, Las
Vegas, Nevada, July 12-16, 2004
PUBLICATIONS
Books
* Fermin, G., Tennant, P., Gonsalves, C., Lee, D., and Gonsalves,
D. (2004) Comparative Development and impact of transgenic
papayas in Hawaii, Jamaica and Venezuela. In Transgenic
plants: Methods and Protocols, Vol. 286, Methods in Molecular
346
Biology, L. Pena, editor. Humuna Press, Totowa, New Jersey.
pp 397-428.
* Wilson, B. S. 2003. Of mongooses and lizards, p. 113-119. In
R. W. Henderson and R. Powell (eds.), Islands and the Sea:
Essays on Herpetological Exploration in the West Indies.
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca (New
York). Contributions to Herpetology, volume 20.
* Wilson, B. S., R. Hudson, A. Alberts, R. Kerr, N. Thompson, R.
Nelson, D. Lewis, and P. Vogel. 2004. Survival and
reproduction of repatriated, zoo-reared Jamaican Iguanas:
headstarting as a viable conservation strategy. Pages 220-231 in
A.C. Alberts, R.L. Carter, W.K. Hayes, and E.P. Martins (eds.),
Biology and Conservation of Iguanas. University of California
Press, Berkeley.
Refereed papers
* Goodbody, C. and H. Lehnert 2004. Aulospongus phakelloides sp.
n. (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Raspailiidae) from deep
water off Jamaica, W. I. Bull mar. Sci. 74 (1) 163-169.
* Goodbody, I. 2003. Kingston Harbour, Jamaica. An Overview.
Bull. mar. Sci. 73 (2) 249-255.
* Goodbody, I. 2004. Natural History in Jamaica. Reflecting on
the past and charting the future. Jamaica Journal 27 (2-3) 48-53.
* Hyslop, E. 2003. Addition to the freshwater malacofauna of
Jamaica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 51 (1) : 262-263.
* Webber, D.F., Webber, M.K. and Williams, D. D. 2003. The
relative importance of meteorological events and tidal activity in
determining the circulation patterns and flushing time of
Kingston Harbour. Bull Mar Sci. 73: 273-290.
* Dunbar, F. N. and Webber, M.K. 2003.Zooplankton
distribution in a tropical embayment, Kingston Harbour,
Jamaica. Bull Mar Sci. Volume 73: 343-360.
* Webber, M.K., Ranston, E.R., Webber, D.F., Dunbar, F.N. and
Simmonds, R.A. 2003. Changes in water quality and plankton in
Kingston Harbour after 20 years of continued eutrophication.
Bull Mar Sci. 73: 361-378.
347
* Persad, G.; Webber, M.K.; Hopcroft, R. and Roff, J.C.
2003.Annual density, biomass and production of gelatinous
zooplankton at Lime Cay and Kingston Harbour. Bull Mar Sci.
73: 379-396.
* Webber, D.F.; Webber, M.K. and McDonald, K.
2003.Mangrove forest structure under varying environmental
conditions. Bull Mar Sci. 73: 491 506.
* Bigg, G.R. & D.F. Webber. 2003. The impact of coastline
change and urban development on the flushing time of a coastal
embayment, Kingston Harbour, Jamaica. Bulletin of Marine
Science Vol. 73 (2): 291-306.
* Green, S. O. and D.F. Webber. 2003. The effects of varying
levels of eutrophication on phytoplankton and seagrass
(Thalassia testudinum) populations of the Southeast coast of
Jamaica. Bulletin of Marine Science Vol. 73 (2):443-456.
* Ranston, E.R. and D.F. Webber. 2003. Phytoplankton
distribution in a highly eutrophic estuarine bay, Hunts Bay,
Kingston Harbour Jamaica. Bulletin of Marine Science Vol.73
(2):307-324.
* Ranston, R.A. Simmonds, and D.F. Webber. 2003. The
phytoplankton distribution in Kingston Harbour, Jamaica.
Bulletin of Marine Science Vol.73 (2):325-342.
* Thompson, H. and D.F. Webber. 2003 The sand dune ecology
of the Palisadoes, Kingston Harbour, Jamaica. Bulletin of Marine
Science Vol.73 (2):507-520.
* Webber, D.F., and P.Wilson-Kelly. 2003. Characterization of
sources of organic pollution to Kingston Harbour, the extent of
their influence and some rehabilitation recommendations.
Bulletin of Marine Science Vol.73 (2):257-272.
* Harvey, G. H., Ivan Goodbody and Karl A. Aiken 2003. The
Artisanal thread herring fishery of Kingston Harbour: a review.
Bulletin of Marine Science Vol.73 (2):398-420.
* Buddo, D., R.D. Steele, E. Ranston D’oyen. 2003. Distribution
of the invasive Indo-Pacific green mussel Perna viridis in
Kingston Harbour Jamaica. Bulletin of Marine cience Vol.73
(2):420-433.
348
* Goodbody, I. 2003. The Ascidian fauna of Port Royal, Jamaica
I. Harbour and mangrove dwelling species. Bulletin of Marine
Science Vol.73 (2):457-476.
Non-refereed papers
* Aiken, K. A. & G.A. Kong. 2004. Recent development in
Jamaica's conch fishery. Proc. Gulf & Carib. Fish. Instit. 48:541-
550
PUBLIC SERVICE
Dr. Jane Cohen
– Member of Alien Invasive Species Working Group
– Advisor, Banana Board Research Department
Dr. Kisan Vaidya
– Member, Gene Bank Committee, Jamaica.
– Member, Technical Committee, Jamaica Agricultural
Development Foundation (JADF)
Dr. Mona Webber
– Scientific Editor, Special volume of Bulletin of Marine Science
on Kingston Harbour.
– Member, Steering Committee for Sea Turtle Recovery
Network, Hope Zoo.
– Member, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
(ASLO).
– Member, Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean.
– Member, Caribbean Academy of Sciences, Jamaican Chapter.
Dr KA Aiken
– Member, Board of Directors Caribbean Maritime Institute
– Member, Select Committee on Economy & Production,
Gordon House, Kingston
349
– Member (and Co-founder), Board of Directors, Jamaica
Conservation & Development Trust
– Member, Board of Directors, Caribbean Coastal Area
Management (CCAM) Foundation (since 1997)
– Member, Scientific Authority, Convention and International
Trade in Endangered Species of Flora & Fauna (CITES),
Jamaica
Dr Dale Webber
– Chairman, National RAMSAR committee
– Chairman, CL Environmental Ltd
– Immediate Past-President, Mona Preparatory School Parent
Teachers Association
– Advisor, Mona Preparatory School Science Club.
– University of the West Indies Representative on Ministry of
Education and Culture Overseas Examination Board.
– Member, Operations Sub- Committee, Overseas Examination
Board.
– Member, Science and Technology Advisory Committee of the
National Commission for UNESCO.
– Member, North St. Andrew (NSA) Kiwanis Club.
Dr Ralph Robinson
– Member, Board of Directors, Jamaica Agricultural
Development Foundation.
Dr Peter Vogel
– Board Member, Scientific Authority
– Chairman, Jamaican Iguana Research and Conservation Group
– Member, Alien Invasive Species Working Group
– Member, IUCN West Indian Iguana Specialist Group
– Member, Executive Committee and Past President, Bird Life
Jamaica
350
– Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Blue and John Crow
Mountains National Park
– Member, Advisory Board, Natural History Division, Institute
of Jamaica
– Member, Society of Caribbean Ornithology
Professor Ivan Goodbody
– Member, Editorial Boards of Bulletin of Marine Science and of
Caribbean Marine Studies.
STUDENTS AND COURSES
Performance in courses:
Course Code & Name No. Reg No. Sit No. Pass % Pass
BB10A Cells, Biomolecules and Genetics 285 284 193 68
BB10B Introductory Microbiology 280 272 178 64
BL05A Preliminary Biology I 162 155 75 46
BL05B Preliminary Biology II 163 149 99 61
BL10L Animal Diversity 173 173 121 70
BL10M Plant Diversity 158 153 130 82
BL20J General and Molecular Genetics 54 53 48 89
BL20K Evolutionary Biology 50 49 46 92
BL20L Diving Technology for Aquatic 10 10 10 100
Scientists
BL20N Ecology 64 63 60 93
BL20P Biometry 60 59 46 77
BL30K Soil Biology 11 11 11 100
BL30M Mycology 12 12 11 92
BL31A Coastal Management 17 17 17 100
BL33D Freshwater Ecology 21 21 20 95
BL31E Marine Ecology I: Biological 17 17 12 71
Oceanography
BL31F Marine Ecology II: 14 14 14 100
Benthic Communities
BL38A Virology 20 20 18 90
BL39C Research Project 8 8 8 100
351
BL39D Caribbean Biodiversity 19 19 17 89
BL39E Conservation Biology 20 19 18 90
BT21B Seed Plants 51 51 43 84
BT22A Plant Physiology 50 49 48 96
BT31A Phycology 15 14 14 93
BT33A Ecology, Agroforestory and 8 8 8 100
Sustainable Development
BT34A Principles of Plant Breeding 9 9 8 89
BT37Q Plant Health 10 19 18 95
BT38B Plant Biotechnology 8 8 6 75
Z20G Functional Organisation of Animal 51 49 44 86
I: Maintenance System
Z20H Functional Organisation of 48 48 43 90
Animals II:
Coordination, Protection and Movement
Z30A Sensory and Neuromuscular 28 27 26 93
Physiology
Z30B Metabolic Physiology 28 27 26 93
Z30G General Parasitology 27 27 27 100
Z30M Immunology 37 37 29 78
Z31C Fish Biology 10 19 19 100
Z31F Fisheries & Aquaculture 11 11 11 100
Technology
Z32C Insect Biology & Systematics 11 11 11 100
Z32F Pest Management 16 16 16 100
Prizes Awarded
The following students were formally recognized for quality academic
performance.
Preliminary Biology IIiya Yejide Hamilton
Introductory Biology Lucine M. Edwards
Sean C. Swaby
Level II Zoology Marc E. Phillpotts
L.B. Coke Plant Physiology Prize Kimberly-Ann Byfield
Vincent McKie Zoology Prize Autrene N. Buchanan
Graduate Programme Enrolment
MPhil programme 44 full time, 27 part time
PhD programme 4 full time, 9 part time
352
MSc Plant Production & 9 part time
Protection
MSc Tropical Ecosystem 8 part time
Assessment & Management
Award of Higher Degrees
Master of Philosophy
Nadia Ferguson Supervised by Drs. Mona &
Dale Webber
Christine Kirkwood Supervised by Dr. Mark Thomas
Damian Nesbeth Supervised by Dr. Eric Hyslop
Philip Rose Supervised by Dr. Dale Webber
Kaydene Williams Supervised by Dr. Phyllis
Coates-Beckford
Peter Wilson-Kelly Supervised by Dr. Dale Webber
Cesna McCain Supervised by Dr. Mona Webber
Primrose Campbell Supervised by Dr. Mona Webber
Celia Jackson Supervised by Dr. Mona Webber
Doctor of Philosophy
Karl Aiken Supervised by Prof. Brian Freeman
Audette Baile Supervised by Dr. Eric Garraway
353
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS &
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Professor Ronald E. Young, BSc, MSc UWI, PhD St. And
– Acting Head of Department
WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Department had a year of highs and lows.Among the notable successes was the
elevation to Professorships of Drs. Wen Bin
Zhang and Alexandra Rodkina. Mrs Lila Rao
and Mrs Gunjan Mansingh were admitted to
pursue the one-off, PhD programme in
Information Science being offered by the MSB
and have started attending. Dr. Ezra Mugisa was
awarded a Research Fellowship to carry forward
his MORRESA project (MORRESA = MOna
Repository of REusable Software Assets), with his teaching duties
assumed by Mr. Eyton Ferguson. Professor Mervyn Curtis resigned as
Head of Department and left at the end of the year, upon termination of
his contract. Concerns over the breakdown of civil relationships in the
Mathematics Section prompted a Faculty Review and major overhaul of
Faculty in the Section. The Dean, Professor Young was appointed to act
as Head in the interim with the assistance of the Deputy Dean, Dr. (now
Professor) Ralph Robinson.
Mr. Ashley Taylor, having completed the work for his PhD thesis, has
returned to the Department, whilst awaiting the defence. He continues,
however, to retain an affiliation with Georgia Tech University where he is
involved with a major project related to his thesis work. A new batch of 5
students was admitted to the MSc in Biostatistics and, when it emerged
that the planned total assumption of the programme at Mona, could not
be effected, funds were identified through the University of South
354
Carolina to bring in lecturers to deliver some of the courses and to allow
the students to complete the remaining courses and initiate their research
projects at South Carolina. The students have now returned to the Mona
Campus and are completing their projects. The programme has now been
extensively revised, with increasing emphasis on the biomedical and
epidemiological aspects, and it has been proposed that coordination be
shifted to the TMRI who had provided the original impetus for the
programme. The input from Mathematics will remain important. The
MSc in Computer Science offered by the Computer Science Section in
collaboration with the MIAS registered 30 students and has been
progressing satisfactorily with the involvement of specially recruited
lecturers as required.
The Computer Science Section instituted the Karl Robinson Award for
the first time in 2004 in memory of the late the Dr. Karl Robinson who
was the Head of the Computer Science Section at the time of his death.
This award will be given annually to the final year student with the best
academic performance. The award for 2003/2004 went to Cecil Reid.
The weekly seminar programme in both sections of the department
continued to exhibit vigorous activity involving both lecturers and
graduate students. Dr. Jonathan Farley Visiting Associate Professor at
MIT and the recipient of the Harvard Foundation 2004 Distinguished
Scientist Award, visited the Department in March and gave two talks on
Linear Extensions of a Ranked Poset, Enumerated by Descents: A Problem of
Richard P. Stanley from 1981 and on Breaking Al-Qaeda Cells: A Mathematical
Analysis of Counter-terrorism Operations (A Guide for Risk Assessment and
Decision Making). Dr Farley was also the keynote speaker at the Faculty
Awards Ceremony on March 25, where he spoke on The Prayer of Queen
Dido: Preparing for West Indian Leadership and Global Dominance in Science,
Industry, and Academia. He also took the opportunity to conduct a class
with one of the undergraduate groups in mathematics.
The vacant chair in Computer Science was advertised but no suitable
applicants were identified. Arising out of this, it was agreed that the
Department should host a workshop including the Computer Science and
related faculty from the other campuses in order to define a unified
University vision of what should be the major objectives of Computer
Science regionally and locally, how our programmes in Computer Science
should be orientated and how we should be organising to meet the
objectives identified. A suitable time for holding this workshop has not
yet been agreed on between the campuses.
355
Two of Dr. Ezra Mugisa's graduate students, Errol Dennis and Richard
Pyne (PhD candidates) attended a conference in Austria in February 2004.
They presented papers at the IASTED International Conference on
Applied Informatics. Dr. Daniel Coore attended a conference in Boston
in May 2004 and presented a paper on the topic: ‘Towards a Universal
Programming Language for Amorphous Computing’. This is to appear in the
Proceedings of the NECSI International Conference on Complex
Systems 2004 (ICCS2004) (Special issue of InterJournal), New England
Complex Systems Institute, Boston, MA.
Dr. Daniel Coore organised a track on
Amorphous Computing for a Conference
on ‘Conventional Programming
Paradigms’ scheduled for September 2004
in France.
ABSTRACTS/CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
Dennis, Errol Hugh and Ezra K. Mugisa.
Identification of Static Structures of
Reusable Software Architectures.
Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2004, Greensboro, North
Carolina, March 2004, IEEE 2004.
Pyne, Richard A. and Ezra K. Mugisa. Essential Elements of a
Component-Based Development Environment for the Software
Supermarket. Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2004, Greensboro,
North Carolina, March 2004, IEEE 2004.
Coore, Daniel. Towards A Universal Programming Language for
Amorphous Computing. Presented at NECSI International Conference
on Complex Systems 2004 (ICCS2004). Boston, MA. May 2004.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed
* Dennis E.H. and E.K. Mugisa. Reusable Software
Architecture for an Accounting Information System, in M.H
Hamza (editor) – Proceedings of the IASTED International
Conference on Software Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria,
February 2004, pp. 275-280. ACTA Press 2004.
356
* Pyne R.A. and E.K. Mugisa. The Software Supermarket: A
Catalyst for Component-based Software Development, in M.H.
Hamza (editor) – Proceedings of the IASTED International
Conference on Software Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria,
February 2004, pp. 269-274. ACTA Press 2004.
* Rodkina A. & Nosov V. On Stability of Some Non-linear
Scalar Differential Equations. Dynamic Systems and Applications.
Vol. 12. 2003. Pp. 285-294
* Rodkina A., Nosov V. and Gomez J.M. On Application of
Kharitonov’s Theorem to Analysis the Stability of Journal
Bearings. Functional Differential Equations. Vol. 10. No 3–4.
2003. pp. 555-561.
* Rodkina A. and Schurz H. A Theorem on Asymptotic Stability
of Solutions of Non-linear Stochastic Difference Equations
with Volterra Type Noise. SACTA, Vol. 6, No 1, 2004, Pp. 23-
24.
* Rodkina A. and Schurz H. Global asymptotic stability of
solutions to cubic stochastic difference equations. Advances in
Difference Equations. Vol. 3. 2004). Pp. 249-260.
* Rodkina A. & Mao X. On Asymptotic Behaviour of Solutions
to Non-linear Difference Equation with Nonmartingale Type
Noise. Chapter 4 in a book “Advance in Mathematics Research”,
Vol. 6, Nova Science Publishers, 2004. Pp. 101-126.
* Zhang, Wen-Bin. High Order Mean-Value Theorems for
Multiplicative Functions via Halasz’s Method. Annales Univ.
Sci. Budapest, Hungary, Sect. Comp. 22 (2003), 395-402.
* Zhang, Wen-Bin. Corrigendum: Mean-value Theorems of
Multiplicative Functions on additive arithmetic semi groups,
Mathematics Z., DOI: 10.1007/Soo 209-004-0675-7, (2004).
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Donald Walwyn, BSc, PhD UWI – Head of Department
357
WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT
Teaching
With the exception of one undergraduate course, the general pass ratewas good or satisfactory. Student assessment ranged from very
good to satisfactory
Research
The Department’s research activities continued to be led by the work of
the Climate Modeling Group. The Group continued projects involving (i)
The Threat of Dengue Fever – Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation to
Climate Change in the Caribbean, (ii) Diagnostics and Prediction of
Climate Variability and Human Health Impacts in the Tropical Americas,
(iii) Developing the Caribbean El Nino News Network – CENNN and
(iv) The structure and properties of synoptic systems that affect the
Caribbean.
Research directed at developing solutions for GPS tracking, based on
features of the GSM cellular network, operating in Jamaica, became more
focused – concentrating on innovative approaches to error correction.
Research continued exploring ways to make the photovoltaic process
more efficient in the Jamaican context. Research was initiated seeking
ways to reduce the complexity of Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexed Radio Transmissions.
Research in Progress
Dr. A.M.D. Amarakoon
– Climate variability/change impacts on agriculture, and
renewable energy.
Mr. Lawrence Brown, Miss Cassandra Rhoden and Professor A.
Chen
358
– Downscale global model results for use in the region.
Prof. A. Chen, Miss Cassandra Rhoden, Miss Jody-Ann Minott,
Mr. Rainaldo Crossbourne, and Dr. Michael Taylor
– Investigate the link between Climate and Health (dengue fever
in particular) and Climate and Agriculture (sugar cane yield).
Mr. Ronaldo Crossbourne, and Dr. Michael Taylor
– To develop a Caribbean Climate database.
Dr. L. Myers and Miss Darlene Fields
– Investigating the suitability of available photovoltaic technology
to the Jamaican environment
Dr. Lucien Ngalamou and Mr. L. Buchanan
– The development of software tools for the design of
Programmable Logic Controllers
– The design of a Petri Nets-to-Fuzzy Sets conversion for
Discrete-Event Systems.
Dr. Andrew Russell
– Texas Instruments and their DLP technology
Dr. Andrew Russell, Prof. Alan Oppenheim and Mr. Sourav Dey
– “Digital pre-compensation for faulty D/A converters” project
(an extension of PhD research)
Dr. Andrew Russell and Mr. Richard Hemmings
– Non-linear pre-distortion algorithm for an ultrasonic audio
transducer using Simulink.
Dr. Joseph Skobla, Mr. Ryan Turner, Mr. Leonardo Clarke, and
Mr.Glen McFarlane
– The Global Positioning (GPS) Micro-tracking System
– UWI GPS Tracking System
Miss Taniecia Stephenson, Dr. Michael Taylor, and Prof. Anthony
Chen
359
– Investigate the synoptic processes which determine the
climatology of the Caribbean rainy season, and how these are
altered by the El Nino Southern oscillation phenomenon
Miss Taniecia Stephenson, Dr. Michael Taylor, Miss Jacqueline
Spence and Prof. Anthony Chen
– Investigate the dynamics of the primary Caribbean dry season
and how it is conditioned by sea surface
temperatures in the tropical and Pacific
oceans.
Dr. Michael Taylor, Miss Soyini Aida
Ashby and Miss Tannecia Stephenson
– Create prediction models for seasonal
rainfall in the Caribbean and Jamaica
using global climate indices as
predictors.
Dr. Donald Walwyn, Miss Yahnique
Barrett and Miss K. Munroe
– Investigating the application of orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing (OFDM) to broadband wireless access problems
in the Jamaican environment.
PAPERS PRESENTED
• Chen, A.A. W. Bailey and C. Heslop-Thomas “Human
dimensions of climate change in the Caribbean – taking stock and
moving forward.” Open Meeting of the Global Environment
Change Research Community, Montreal, Canada, October 16-18,
2003.
• Owino, A., A, A. Chen, and C. Rhoden, “Climate Change
Scenarios for the Caribbean.” Communities and the Impact of
Climate Change Conference. Winnipeg, Canada, March 2004.
• Owino, A. and C. Rhoden, “Use of Modeling and Scenario
Tools.” Regional Workshop on Integrating Natural Hazard
Impact Assessment into Environmetal Impact Assessment
(EIA). Barbados, February 11-12, 2004
• Skobla J., R Turner, L Clarke, and C. Scarlett, “Contribution
to Error Correction GPS Tracking System”, IMEKO 2nd
360
International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and
Modeling of Human Functions, Genova, Italy, June 2004
• Spence, J., M.A. Taylor, and A.A. Chen, “The effect of
concurrent sea surface temperature anomalies in the tropical and
Atlantic on Caribbean rainfall”. 1st International CLIVAR
Conference, June 2004, Baltimore, USA.
• Stennett, R., and C. Rhoden “Use of Modelling and Scenario
Tools.” Regional Training Workshop on Integrating Natural
Hazard Impact Assessment into Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA). Barbados, February 11-12, 2004.
• Stephenson, T., and A.A. Chen, “Modes and Circulation
Features of the Dry and Early Wet Rainfall Seasons for the
Caribbean” Poster. 1st International CLIVAR Conference, June
2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed
* Amarakoon, A.M.D., Anthony Chen, Samuel Rawlins and
Michael Taylor Climate Variability and Patterns of Dengue in
the Caribbean. AIACC Notes, 2(2), p. 8, November 2004;
http://www.AIACCPROJECT.org
* Amarakoon, A.M.D. . A.A. Chen, S.C. Rawlins and M.A.
Taylor Dengue epidemics – its association with precipitation
and temperature, and its seasonality in some Caribbean
countries (16 pages) 49th Annual CHRC Council and Scientific
Meeting, Grenada, April 21-24, 2004; WIMJ Supplement, 53 (2)
p.60, 2004; ISBN: 0043-3144 WIMJAD
* Amarakoon, Dharmaratne, Roxanne Stennett and
Anthony Chen Climate Variability and Disease Patterns in
Two South Eastern Caribbean Countries (15 pages). CEF-2,
Trinidad, May 31-June 4, 2004
* Rawlins, S.C, A. Chen, M. Ivey, D. Amarakoon and Karen
Polson The impact of climate change/variability events on the
occurrence of dengue fever in parts of the Caribbean: a
Retrospective study for the period 1980-2002 (15 pages). 49th
Annual CGRC Council and Scientific Meeting, Grenada, April
361
21-24, 2004; WIMJ Supplement, 53 (2), p. 54, 2004; ISBN:
0043-3144 WIMJAD
Non-Refereed
* Dey, Sourav, Andrew I. Russell and Alan V. Oppenheim
Digital pre-compensation for faulty D/A converters.
* Myers, Leary, Fields, Darlene and Hall, Conroy
“Development of Photovoltaics in Jamaica” CEIS Update Vol.
18, No.2, June 2004
* Russell, Andrew I., and Paul Beckmann Sampling Rate
Conversion US Patent Number 6,665,694
* Russell, Andrew, Alan Oppenheim and Sourav Dey
“Digital pre-compensation for faulty D/A converters”
presented at ICASSP conference in Montreal May 2004.
* Skobla, J., “GPS and Electronics” Science, Technology and
Innovation UWI Leading Nation,” UWI Proceedings, 2004
* Skobla, J., and Mr. L. Clarke, “A Microcontroller Cellular
Based Communication Network for a GPS Error Correction
System”, IEEE Proceedings, AEROSPACE, March 6-13, 2004.
* Skobla, J., and Mr. R. Turner, “A Mapping Solution for
GPS/GIS in Kingston, Jamaica”, IEEE Proceedings,
AEROSPACE, March 6-13, 2004
* Skobla J., and Mr. G. McFarlane “GPS Based Marine
Communicator”, IEEE Proceedings, AEROSPACE, March 6-
13, 2004
PUBLIC SERVICE
Dr. A.M.D Amarakoon,
– Examiner, Year 1 and 2 Physics, Joint Board of Teacher
Education
Prof. A.A. Chen
– Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society
362
– Country Representative for Jamaica, Inter-American Institute
for Global Change Research
– Member, National IGBP Committee
– Member, International Solar Energy Society, American
Association of Physics Teachers, American Meteorological
Society, Jamaica Society of Scientists and Technologists.
Dr. L. Myers
– Member, Board of Directors and Deputy Chairman of the
Scientific Research Council
– Chairman, Product Research and Development Sub-
Committee
– Member, Board of Directors, Spectrum Management Authority
– Chair, Human Resources Sub-Committee
– Member, National Energy Strategy and Forecasting Committee
– Judge, IEEE student competition at the IEEE conference
Ocho Rios 2003
Dr. Andrew Russell
– Member, Moorlands Camps Committee
– Member, Board of Trustees, Jamaica Youth for Christ
– Consultant, Digital Signal and Image Processing for Texas
Instruments Inc., Plano, Texas
– External Examiner, for two courses taught at C.A.S.E
Dr. J. Skobla
– Consultant, Bureau of Standards, Jamaica – GPS Time
Dissemination
Dr. M.A. Taylor
– Member, American Geophysical Union
– Board member and Proposal Co-Author: Environmental
Stewardship Committee of the Jamaica Baptist Union.
– Alternate Country Representative, Jamaica, Inter-American
Institute for Global Change Research
Research Grants
363
US$5,000 to support graduate research in climate variability from the
Inter-American Institute for Global Climate Change Research. The grant
was facilitated through the CRN73 project on ‘Climate Variability and Its
Impact in the Mexican, Central American and Caribbean Regions.’
CATEGORIES OF STUDENTS
Undergraduate:
Course No. sat exam No. passed Pass rate %
P04A Preliminary Physics A 89 76 85
P04B Preliminary Physics B 89 74 84
P14A Introductory Physics A 150 96 64
P14B Introductory Physics B 127 108 85
P23E Modern Physics 1 10 8 80
P23F Optics & Oscillations 9 7 78
P23H Electricity & Magnetism
& Solid State Electronics 14 12 86
P24F Signals and Systems 36 50 72
P24G Electric Circuit Analysis 27 21 78
P24H Communications Systems 53 48 91
P24J Analog Electronics 23 19 83
P24K Digital Electronics 46 32 70
P24L Solid State Electronic Devices 35 29 83
P25F Materials Science 1 14 13 93
P33G Physics of Climate 17 14 83
P33H Fluid Dynamics and 14 12 86
Renewable Energy
P33J Electromagnetism and
Solid State Physics 15 11 73
P34F Digital Signal Processing 39 38 97
P34G EM Transmission and Propagation 25 25 100
P34H Digital Communications 40 38 95
P34J Microcontroller Applications 30 30 100
P34K Microprocessors 22 19 86
P34L Instrumentation 14 12 86
P34P Electronics Project 9 9 100
First Class Degrees with Majors in Electronics and/or Physics were
awarded to Ms Jodi-Ann Lai and Melissa Sturridge as well as Messrs
Chad Andrade, Dwight Linton, Jahmai O’Sullivan, Cecil Reid and
Adrian Walwyn.
Two Postgraduate students completed their MPhil degrees. They are:
– Mr. Trevor Hall whose title was “Relationships between
Jamaican September, October and November Rainfall
364
and Hurricane Predicting Parameters” and his supervisor
was Professor Anthony Chen.
– Miss Jacqueline Spence whose “Examining the effect of
concurrent sea surface temperature anomalies on
Caribbean rainfall.” Her supervisor was Dr. Michael Taylor.
Four (4) students were awarded the MSc in Digital Technology degree
Prizes Awarded:
The Departmental Prizes for academic performance in Level 2 courses
were awarded to Messrs. Chad Andrade and Cecil Reid.
The Departmental Prize for academic performance in Level 1 courses was
awarded to Mr. Dale Ross.
The Francis Bowen Bursary for Physics was awarded to Ms. Jodi-Ann
Lai.
The Michael Tharmanahthan Memorial Bursary was awarded to Ms.
Melissa Sturridge.
The First Place Poster Award went to Ms. Tannecia Stephenson for
poster presented at CLIVAR Conference, Baltimore, 2004.
Best Publication, FPAS went to Dr. M.A. Taylor and Professor A.A.
Chen at UWI Research Day Awards January 2004 for paper “Influence of
the Tropical Atlantic versus the Tropical Pacific on Caribbean Rainfall.”
Research Fellowship was awarded to Dr. M.A. Taylor, August 2003.
365