Dr Heather Harewood,
Dr Heather Harewood is currently a Lecturer in Public Health and Epidemiology at UWI, Cave Hill. She holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Biology and the MB,BS from UWI and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Birmingham (UK).
She teaches in the medical undergraduate programme, co-coordinating and lecturing on the Health Services Management course and lectures in the Health and Environment course.
At the postgraduate level Heather coordinates and lectures on several courses including Environmental Health and Primary Health Care. She is also the coordinator of the MPH programme at UWI Cave Hill.
Heather worked for many years as a Medical Officer of Health with the Ministry of Health Barbados and held administrative responsibility for the delivery of Public Health and primary care services, in addition to clinical duties in the Maternal and Child Health clinics, teaching and mentoring of MB,BS students and collaboration with the Ministry of Health at the policy level.
John Charlery:
Dr. John Charlery is a lecturer, the Coordinator of Computer Science and the Programme Coordinator of the UWI-China Institute for Information Technology at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies. Prior to joining the academic staff of the UWI, he was the Deputy Director of the Barbados Meteorological Services, where he served for a number of years. He is therefore a self-described Meteorologist-turned-Computer-Scientist and has directed his attention mostly in the areas of simulation and dynamic modeling. A significant part of his ongoing research and publications is in climate modeling, interpretation of climate models’ results and climate scenarios generation. He developed the Climate Modeling Laboratory at the Cave Hill Campus of the UWI and has been running it from its inception in 2002, where the emphasis is on dynamic and statistical regional climate modeling over the Caribbean. He is a member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change - Working Group 1 (IPCC-WG1), that is, the section of the IPCC which deals with the actual development of computer programs for the different climate change models. He is a founding member of the Caribbean Climate Modellers Group, which is made up of cross-sectional representation from the three campuses of the UWI and the Cuban Institute of Meteorology (INSMET). His primary interest is in the identification and development of methodologies which address smaller scale issues (e.g. tropical islands, watersheds, mesoscale interactions, etc.) within the global climate change processes. Partnered with his research colleague, Dr. Leonard Nurse, he has developed an efficient and inexpensive climate model for small domains, such as tropical islands, which has been gaining increasing popularity and usage in the developing world.
Crystal Drakes
Crystal Drakes is an economist and foresight strategist with professional experience in development projects across the Caribbean. Her current research interest is the integration of foresight analysis into small island states economic and environmental development strategies. Crystal’s research at CERMES, UWI is focused on socio-economic futures modeling relating to water availability under the impacts of climate change. She has acquired a high level of expertise on developmental projects in areas of environmental economic assessments, renewable energy as well as sector and cluster development analysis working with various multilateral funding agencies.
Dr. David Smith
Dr. David Smith is the Coordinator of the Institute for Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University Consortium for Small Island States (UCSIS). The Institute researches Disaster Management, Environmental Management and Policy & Governance.
Prior to this he was the Assistant Resident Representative in the Jamaica Office of the United Nations Development Programme; responsibilities included management of UNDP’s Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Disaster Management activities in the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands and Jamaica and management of the Programme in the Country Office.
He was a Regional Councillor for IUCN – The World Conservation Union and the Chair of the Business Committee of IUCN’s Council. He was on the Board of the Caribbean Conservation Association [http://www.ccanet.net/] for five years and President in 1995. He was Executive Director of the Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust for ten years and has been appointed to several tribunals and policy development committees of the Jamaican Government.
He has consulted on small business management and the design of environmental financing mechanisms in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Uganda and Guyana. He also helped to develop the Jamaican Protected Areas System and the Jamaican National Forestry Management Plan.
He was an opinion journalist for the Jamaica Herald newspaper and once co-hosted a live radio call-in programme 25 feet underwater in the Montego Bay Marine Park. His Ph.D. is in Zoology.
Brook Schofield
Brook Schofield is a Project Development Officer at the Amsterdam office of GÉANT - formerly the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, (TERENA). Brook joined TERENA in June 2009 to support task forces and contribute to the technical programme.
Brook is responsible for a portfolio of middleware activities focusing on the deployment and promotion of the use of middleware & federated technologies and policy for the campus and organisational level. He was a participant in the ELCIRA project focusing on developing eduroam and identity federations and their interfederation via eduGAIN.
Brook is the Secretary of the Global eduroam Governance Committee (GeGC) which coordinates the organisation of eduroam. He is also a member of the operation team within the GÉANT eduroam activity.
Brook graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1998 with an honours degree in computing. He has worked for an Internet Service Provider, a variety of universities in Australia (UTAS, UQ, Griffith, UniSA) and the JISC RSC in the South West of England. As chair of the AARNet eduroam Project Group he helped in the expansion of eduroam in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. This brought him to Europe and TERENA.
