Training

Projects

Climate Variability and Human Health Impacts in the Caribbean

Funding Institution

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
http://www.iai.int

Andre Coy, was involved in building the climate database on a part-time basis in the first year. He was reading for a M. Phil degree on the subject of lightning detection.

The Threat of Dengue Fever - Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change in Human Health in the Caribbean

Funding Institution

Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors (AIACC) initiative, implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme and co-executed by the Global Change SysTem for Analysis Research and Training (START) and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
http://www.start.org/Projects/AIACC_Project/aiacc.html

The AIACC-funded project, which was developed in the first year of the CRN, is starting to provide opportunities for four graduate students to get involved in a major research project: 

• Mr. Reynaldo Crossbourne to work on the database
  
• Mr. Lawrence Brown to work on climate scenarios
  
• Mrs. Charmaine Heslop-Thomas to work on socioeconomic/vulnerability studies 
  
• Miss Karen Polson to work on epidemiology studies

The students are at the University of the West Indies.