About Us: Staff
CERMES has a unique cadre of academic, technical and administrative talent. Each member of our team brings with them different areas of expertise which make CERMES a productive and adaptive teaching/working environment.
Please click on the links below to view the profiles of our staff members, postdoctoral and other researchers:
| Established Post |
| Name |
Position |
Areas of interest |
| David Yawson |
Director, Senior Lecturer |
• Bio-sensitive land resource management
• Socio-ecological resilience in the context of environmental change |
| Patrick McConney |
Senior Lecturer |
• Small-scale fisheries
• Marine managed areas |
| Robin Mahon |
Professor Emeritus |
• Marine resource governance |
| Hazel Oxenford |
Professor |
• Fisheries biology and management |
| Janice Cumberbatch |
Senior Lecturer |
• Sustainable tourism development
• Environmental impact assessment |
| Karl Payne |
Lecturer |
• Surface and Groundwater Hydrology
• Hydrometeorological Risks and Water Management
• Water and Wastewater Management |
| Maria Pena |
Project Officer |
• Socio-economic aspects of marine resource management
• MPA management
• Project management |
| Neetha Selliah |
Programme Coordinator |
• Fisheries governance |
| Joseph Weekes |
Laboratory Technician |
• Coral reef & Water quality assesment
• Terrestrial/Marine field work
• UAS Mapping |
| Dale Benskin |
Information Technology Technician |
• Information technology
• Unmanned aerial systems
• Photography |
| Jennifer Hurley |
Administrative Assistant |
• Office administratoin |
| Mia Clarke |
Stenographer/Clerk (Secretary) |
• Videography/Photography
• Office administratoin |
| Khalil Greene |
Research Assistant |
• Application development & web mapping
• Geospatial intelligence
• Atmospheric water generation
• Environmental modelling |
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| Postdoctoral & other researchers |
| Julian Walcott |
Technical Officer |
• Caribbean Protected Areas Gateway |
| Catrina Hinds |
Project Coordinator |
• Sustainable tourism
• Disaster risk reduction |