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Research Interests
1. Documentation of historical coastal changes in Jamaica, through
the use of old and modern air photographs, satellite imagery and
maps.
2. Coastal hazards and geological resources of the coastal shelf
of Jamaica.
2. Geology of wetlands in Jamaica; wetland evolution at Negril
and Black River.
3. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Mesozoic to Recent larger foraminifers
(Protists) in the Western Hemisphere; the use of larger foraminifers
in high resolution sequence stratigraphy and bio-stratigraphy.
4. Investigation of Eocene-Oligocene boundary events in Jamaica.
Current Research
1. IGCP393, Neritic Events at the Middle-Upper Eocene Boundary,
an international programme investigating shallow marine invertebrate
faunal changes at, and the precise position of the middle Eocene
(Bartonian) to upper Eocene (Priabonian) boundary.
2. Coastal changes over the past 200 years along the Vere coast
of southern Jamaica.
3. Coastal erosion problems at St. Margaret’s Bay, Portland,
Jamaica.
4. Strontium isotope and larger foraminiferal stratigraphy of
the middle Tertiary White Limestone of Jamaica.
Outreach Activities
Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences
Member, Standing Committee for Caribbean Geological Conference
Series
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Institute of Marine Affairs,
Trinidad
Member, Jamaica National Committee of the International Geological
Correlation Programme (IGCP)
Manager, Marine Geology Unit, Department of Geography & Geology,
UWI
Selected Recent Articles
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Robinson, E. 1996a. Stable isotopic evidence
for relative and eustatic sea-level changes in Eocene to Oligocene
carbonates, Baldwin County, Alabama: discussion. Geological
Society of America Bulletin, 108 (1), 117-119.
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Robinson, E. 1996b. The occurrence of the foraminiferal
genus Halkyardia in the Caribbean region. Caribbean Journal
of Science, 32 (1), 72-77.
Robinson, E. 1996c. Charles Alfred Matley: His links with mid
Twentieth Century geology in Jamaica. In Donovan, S.K. (ed.),
De la Beche Meeting, Contributions to Geology, UWI, Mona, 2,
20-26.
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Robinson, E. 1996d. Peat Resources of Jamaica.
In Lappalainen, E. (ed.) Global Peat Resources. International
Peat Society / UNESCO / Geological Survey of Finland, 275-278.
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Robinson, E. 1996e. Using larger foraminifers
in high resolution biostratigraphy: an example from the Eocene
of the Gulf of Mexico and northern Caribbean. Palaios, 11, 220-229.
Robinson, E., Ahmad, R., Phillip-Jordan, C, and Armstrong, M.
1996f. The Burlington landslide, mouth of the Rio Grande, Jamaica:
an example of an ancient slide dam? Journal of the Geological
Society of Jamaica, 31, 37-42.
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Robinson, E. 1997. The Eocene larger foraminifer
Lepidocyclina ariana Cole and Ponton from the so-called Polylepidina
gardnerae horizon, Little Stave Creek, Alabama. Journal of Paleontology,
71(1), 1-5.
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Robinson, E. & Laughton, D.V. 1998a. Burlington
and Jupiter landslides, Rio Grande valley: comparison with Millbank
landslide as examples of processes producing natural dams.
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Proceedings Second Caribbean Conference on Natural
Hazards and Disasters,Kingston, Jamaica, 9-12 October 1996.
Unit for Disaster Studies, UWI.,Publication No. 3, 56-61
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Kohl, B. & Robinson, E. 1998b. Foraminiferal
biostratigraphy of the Bowden Shell Bed, Jamaica. Contributions
to Tertiary and Quaternary Research, 35, 29-46.
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Droxler, A.W., Burke, K., Cunningham, A.D.,
Hine, A.C., Rosencrantz, E., Duncan, D.S., Hallock, P., &
Robinson, E. 1998. Caribbean constraints on circulation between
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans over the past 40 million years.
In Crowley, T.J. & Burke, K. (eds.), Tectonic Boundary Conditions
for Climate Reconstructions, Oxford Monographs on Geology and
Geophysics, Oxford University Press, 169-191.
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Robinson, E. & Mitchell, S.F. 1999. Eocene
to Oligocene stratigraphy in Jamaica, in Mitchell, S.F. (ed.),
Middle Eocene to Oligocene Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography
in Jamaica: a Window on the Nicaragua Rise. 4th Annual Meeting
of IGCP393, July 12-18, Kingston, Jamaica, Contributions to
Geology UWI Mona, 1-47.
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Robinson, E. 2000. Comment on the Stratigraphic
Occurrence of Pseudolepidina Barker & Grimsdale, Linderina
Schlumberger and Caudriella Haman & Huddleston in Jamaica.
Fifth Meeting of IGCP393 IUGS-UNESCO, Ferrara/Vicenza, Italy,
July 21-25, 2000, In Trevisani, E. (ed.), Annali del Museo Civico
di Storia Naturale di Ferrara, 3, 26-29.
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Mitchell, S., Khan, S., Maharaj, R. & Robinson,
E. 2002. Carbonate beach sediment composition at a tourist beach,
Negril, Jamaica. In O.T. Magoon, L.L. Robbins & L. Ewing,
(eds.), Carbonate Beaches, 2000, American Society of Civil Engineers:
204-217.
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Gunter, G.C., Robinson, E. & Mitchell,
S.F. 2002. A new species of Omphalocyclus (Foraminiferida) from
the Upper Cretaceous of Jamaica and its stratigraphical significance.
Journal of Micropalaeontology 21 (2): 149-153.
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Robinson, E. 2003. Upper Paleogene larger foraminiferal
succession on a tropical carbonate bank, Caribbean region. –
Chapter 17. In: D.R. Prothero, L.C. Ivany, & E.A. Nesbitt
(eds.), From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene
Transition. Columbia University Press, New York: 294-302.
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