THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES
Water Research Ini9a9ves
Experiences
Achievements
Climate Change
December, 1st , 2011. Dr. Pramenath Narinesingh
Col. Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. 1
Outline of Topics
• Summary
• UWI Composi9on (Four Campuses)
• Research Capability & Experience
– Inter Campus & Interna9onal collabora9on
– Funding & Projects
• Climate Change
– Funding & Projects
• Conclusion
• Links to Sources of Informa9on
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SUMMARY
• The UWI has a long and successful history in Research and Collabora9on with Interna9onal partners. Its Research base is large (1,000’s) and wide (many speciali9es), and is guided to success by an experienced team of Administrators, Academic and Professional Supervisors.
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• Our experience and success in Research related to Water and Climate Change is reflected in the variety of projects undertaken, the large sums of funding we have a[racted, and the number of successfully completed programmes.
STRUCTURE OF THE UWI
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(Exclusive) Campuses
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Open Campus
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THE UWI
CAVE HILL
BARBADOS
MONA
JAMAICA
ST. AUGUSTINE
1T & T
OPEN CAMPUS
CARIBBEAN
CAMPUS
COUNTRIES
1T & T: Trinidad and Tobago
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Law,
Humani9es and Educa9on,
Pure and Applied Sciences,
Social Sciences, and Medicine
*Science & Agriculture, Engineering at St. Augus9ne
Facul9es at : Cave Hill; Mona; St. Augus9ne
Student Popula9on
Barbados: Cave Hill 8,000
Jamaica: Mona 15,000
Trinidad & Tobago: St. Augus9ne 16,000
Open Campus Caribbean 5,000
Total = 44,000
Student Programmes
Undergraduate 307
Graduate Taught 207
Graduate Research 191
Online 38
Total = 705 9 Grad. Total = 398
GRADUATE Research Structure
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UWI
RESEARCH
OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND
RESEARCH [UWI]
SCHOOLS OF GRADUATE STUDIES
& RESEARCH
Graduate Programmes
1BUISNESS DEVELOPMENT
OFFICE
Iden9fy Research & Business
Opportuni9es
1 St. Augus9ne only
Promotes research: • Aimed at current and relevant issues • Of high quality and standards, • Ensuring that the UWI func9on as one cohesive ins9tu9on.
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• Provide funds for: • hos9ng of mee9ngs and assis9ng with research proposal prepara9on.
o 2008/2010 emphasis was placed on Disaster Risk Reduc9on, Biotechnology, Biodiversity, Environmental Management, Cultural Studies and Tropical Medicine.
Schools of Graduate Studies and Research
Inter-‐Campus Collabora9on
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• Online Researcher Database (UWORD) being
implemented jointly by UWI Chief Informa9on
Officer and the Office of Reach, with IT and
library staff on all campuses par9cipa9ng.
• A web portal has been ini9ated to enhance
communica9on between campuses. 13
Inter-‐Campus Communica9ons
Par9cipa9on of the four campuses in: – Caribbean Studies Conference in Jamaica,
– Environmental Conference in Jamaica, – Ecosystem-‐based Management Conference in Barbados
– Biotechnology Conference in Trinidad and Tobago – Climate Change Conferences in Cuba.
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Inter-‐Campus Workshops & Conferences
Inter-‐Campus collabora9on & Donor Agencies
• St. Augus9ne, Mona and Cave Hill staff jointly prepare proposals for submission to donor agencies: – EDULINK programme
– the ACP-‐EU Science and Technology Programme – The World Bank for a Hazard Atlas Map for the Caribbean.
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Interna9onal Collabora9on
• Collabora9on with selected high-‐quality interna9onal partners is cri9cal for:
– developing graduate programmes and research
capacity.
– Maintaining a high interna9onal standards.
– Ensuring its compe99veness in terms of acquiring
research grants from external donor agencies.
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Research Funding 2008/2009
UWI ac9ng as a single ins9tu9onal applicant succeeded in obtaining funds from:
• The EDULINK programme [Euro 3.3M]
• EU-‐ACP Science and Technology Programme [Euro 2.9M]
• EU FP7 programme [Euro 8.1M]
• DFID Poverty Allevia9on programme
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Interna9onal Collabora9on Ins9tu9ons
• Duke University – Conserva9on and non-‐exploita9ve use of endangered marine fauna
• McGill University – Recruitment dynamics of coral reef organisms
• Newcastle University – Development of a research programme for Iwokrama in Guyana
• University of Puerto Rico – Development of a collabora9ve research programme
• Flensburg University, Germany – Development of a collabora9ve programme on Renewable
Energy
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La#n America-‐Caribbean Centre (LACC) LACC seeks to maximize opportuni9es for ins9tu9onal collabora9on and coopera9on agreements and ac9vi9es within the Caribbean region.
UWI and La#n-‐America
English Language programmes have been successfully completed in: -‐Venezuela (agreement with Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA))
-‐Colombia -‐Chile (Collabora9on with UNESCO/OREALC )
-‐Provided innova9ve educa9onal experiences for students from English-‐speaking Caribbean countries.
-‐Training in the Methodology for teaching of Spanish as a second language .
Puerto Rico (University) -‐Collabora9on is aimed at various Facul9es (on Disaster
Management, Renewable Energy, Agriculture, Research Funding etc.)
Staff and Student Exchanges Between UWI And:-‐
• The interna9onal ins9tute for Geo-‐informa9on Science and Earth Observa9on in the Netherlands, Algrave University in Portugal, Lund University in Sweden and Bilbao University in Spain. – Under the Erasmus Mundus Coopera9on Programme
• The University of Guyana – Under a Memorandum of Understanding facilitated by the School for Graduate Studies and Research
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A few Details on Research
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The Ins9tute of Sustainable Development (ISD)
• The UWI func9ons as the Secretariat for the University Consor9um of Small Island States (UCSIS) members that include:
– University of Malta – The University of Mauri9us – The University of South Pacific – The University College of the Virgin Islands
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ACP-EU Cooperation programs in Higher Education (EDULINK)
UNESCO-‐IHE; University of West Indies; University of Guyana; College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts Of Trinidad and Tobago
Capacity Building for Water Programs
in Higher Education in the Caribbean
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Short Cer9ficate Water Courses EDULINK
• Water Supply and Waste Water • Modeling Waste Water Treatment Plants • Advanced Water Treatment • River Engineering • River Modeling • Flood Control Measures • Hydrology and Water Resources • Advanced Groundwater Data Collec9on and Analysis
• Groundwater Modeling
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Experimental Catchment St. Augus9ne
The St. Joseph Valley Hydrological Observatory
• Typical steep and flashy Northern Range Catchment
with mixed land use: developed and natural.
• The aim of the research is to improve the
understanding of:
– the hydrological processes of water balances, and mass fluxes
in the tropical environment within contras9ng landscapes of
land use, land cover, and topography.
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Ma[hieu Baccard MSc. Thesis. (2011) Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. McGill University, Montreal
Experimental Catchment
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SALISES Conferences and Workshops St. Augus9ne
• The Sustainable Development of Coastal Communi9es: Challenges and Solu9ons
• 2010 Turmoil and Turbulence in Small Developing States: Going beyond Survival
• 2009 Turtle Conserva9on, Ecotourism and Sustainable Community Development Conference
• 2007 Crisis, chaos and change: Caribbean Development Challenges in the 21st Century 27
Farah Hosein: Undergraduate ICURA student and C-‐Change Research Associate received recogni9on from UWI for the best senior research project report submi[ed in the Department of Geoma9cs Engineering and Land Management
Sherry Ann Ganase: C-‐Change students, successfully completed her M.Sc. research project is en9tled "Linking Vulnerability, Adapta9on and Mi9ga9on in Small Island Developing States.
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The C-‐Change project: Telfer School of Management of
the University of O[awa, Canada, and SALISES of The
UWI, along with a team of over twenty co-‐applicants,
collaborators, and community partners
Climate change
• The University of the West Indies (UWI) has been
tasked with spearheading research projects that
will iden9fy problems and offer solu9ons related
to issues of Climate Change and Renewable
Energy, as part of the new Caribbean Climate
Change Adapta9on Ini9a9ve.
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CONCLUSIONS
• The UWI has the structure, experience, and facili9es to win, manage, and successfully execute projects related to Water and Climate Change. Projects completed includes workshops on renewable energy, coastal erosion and management, adap9on to Climate Change; capacity building courses in Water [Groundwater modeling, River Engineering, Flood Management]; and research in Water and Climate Change issues.
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• Business Development Office (research funding) – h[p://sta.uwi.edu/bdo/leveragingexper9se.asp
• Climate-‐change effect on the Buccooreef – h[p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRHqWUhtlvY
• Coastal Climate Adapta9on Strategies (SALISES) – h[p://www.coastalchange.ca/
• EDULINK Science and Technology Programmes – h[p://www.acp-‐edulink.eu/
• Ins9tute for Sustainable Development – h[p://www.uwi.edu/isd/default.aspx
• Open Campus UWI – h[p://www.open.uwi.edu/academics/open-‐campus-‐country-‐sites
• Research at The UWI – h[p://www2.sta.uwi.edu/officeofresearch/researchatuwi.asp
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Links Sources of Informa9on
• Reach topics by Prof. John Agard – h[p://sta.uwi.edu/fsa/lifesciences/jagard.asp
• Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) – h[p://www.acpsec.org/pr/index_en.htm
• Sir Arthur Lewis Ins9tute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES)
– h[p://sta.uwi.edu/salises/workshop/recent/default.html
• UWI Photovoltaic Technologies Mona, Jamica – h[p://www.credp-‐gtz.org/Data/CSEF2/Wednesday/pdf/McNamara-‐PV_PerformanceUWI.pdf
• UWI to lead climate-‐change, renewable-‐energy research – h[p://jamaica-‐gleaner.com/gleaner/20110624/lead/lead8.html – h[p://myspot.mona.uwi.edu/physics/
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Sources CONT’D
Thank You
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"Although climate change is affec9ng every country on Earth, it will have dispropor9onate impact on small island na9ons like those in the Caribbean.
Storms are becoming more frequent and more intense. Coral reefs are dying. Beaches are eroding into the sea."
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