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Dr. Dwight E. Robinson has worked with several local and regional
organisations on several pest and pesticide management projects.
Some of these include:
- Biological Control of the Coffee Berry Borer – Caribbean
Agriculture Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and Coffee
Industry Board
- The National Screwworm Eradication Programme – Ministry
of Agriculture
- Integrated Pest Management for Organic Agriculture –
Jamaica Organic Agriculture Movement & Canada Green Fund
Dr. Robinson has also conducted training in Pest and Pesticide Management
on behalf of the Caribbean Conservation Association (CCA), Jamaica
Commission for UNESCO and the Pesticides Control Authority of Jamaica.
Research Interests
- Integrated management of insect pests of economic importance
to Jamaica and the Caribbean
- Pesticidal potential of secondary plant compounds
- Resistance of insect pests to insecticides
- Ecotoxicity of pesticides in the Jamaican environment
- Fate and management of pesticides in the environment
Publications
- Reid, J. C. and Robinson, D.E. 1994. Assessment of different
insecticides for the suppression of an outbreak of the coffee
leaf miner, Perileucoptera coffeella in Jamaica, W. I. Turrialba.
44 (1): 112-116.
- Mansingh, A., Robinson, D.E. and Wilson, A. 1995. Insecticide
contamination of Jamaican environment. I. Pattern of fluctuations
in residue levels in the rivers of Hope watershed during 1989
- 1991. Jamaica J. Sci. and Tech. 6: 52-67.
- Mansingh, A., Robinson, D.E. and Dalip, K.M. 1997. Insecticide
contamination of the Jamaican environment. Trends in Anal. Chem.
16 (3): 115-123.
- Robinson, D. E., Mansingh, A. and Dasgupta, T. P. 1997. Fate
of endosulfan in river and coastal waters of Jamaica. Proc. Int.
Symp. on the Use of nuclear and related techniques for studying
environmental behaviour of crop protection chemicals, IAEA, Vienna,
July 1 - 5, 1996, p. 301-311.
- Robinson, D. E. and Mansingh, A. 1999. Insecticide contamination
of Jamaican environment. IV. Transport of residues from coffee
plantations in the Blue Mountains to coastal waters in eastern
Jamaica. Env. Monit. & Assess. 54: 125-141.
- Witter, J.V., Robinson, D.E., Mansingh, A. and Dalip, K.M. 1999.
Insecticide contamination of Jamaican environment. V. Island-wide
rapid survey of residues in surface and ground water. Env. Monit.
& Assess. 56: 257-267.
- Robinson, D. E., Mansingh, A. and Dasgupta, T.P. 1999. Fate
and transport of ethoprophos in the Jamaican environment. Sc.
Total Env. 237/238: 373-378
- Mansingh, A., Robinson, D.E., Henry, C. and Lawrence, V. 2000.
Pesticide contamination of the Jamaican environment. II. Insecticide
residues in the rivers and shrimps of Rio Cobre basin, 1982-1996.
Env. Monit. & Assess. 63: 459-480.
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