Dr.  Tannecia Stephenson is a lecturer in the Department of Physics and a member of the Climate Studies Group, Mona.  Her research interests are Caribbean climate variability, climate extremes, seasonal predictions using statistical models and statistical downscaling.  She has been affiliated with a number of climate variability and change projects and has published a number of journal articles, technical reports and short monograph with collaborators.  Her work experience includes conducting research as a visiting fellow at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

Arnoldo Bezanilla is a researcher with the Centre for Atmospheric Physics, within the Institute of Meteorology in Cuba (INSMET), since 2001. He also received a Master of Science in Meteorology from INSMET, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Havana, Cuba.

He has worked on several research projects, some of which include: The Behaviour of the Ozone Layer over Cuba, and Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Caribbean. He has authored and co-authored several publications, some of which relate to:

• Sensitivity studies of the RegCM-3 simulation of summer precipitation, temperature and local wind field in the Caribbean Region
• A proposal of an Index for the evaluation of the general Usefulness of Practices for Adaptation to climate change and variability
• A Briefing from the PRECIS Caribbean Climate Change Project, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

She has also done research on the hydrochemistry of the groundwater wells of the Kingston basin - the most densely populated and polluted basin, supplying water to the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew. Saline water intrusion studies involving DC (direct current) resistivity studies have also been carried out in the alluvium aquifer of St Catherine as another aspect of her research. Her research also aims to re-map the water resources of the island, detailed geological and structural mapping of the aquifers to locate possible new sources of water bodies.

Other fields of interest are geological mapping, establishing hydrostratigraphic maps and the location of new water sources. Stream flow measurements and time-series analysis of stream flow data to calculate discharge and note the seasonality in flow values are also some aspects of her research in Jamaica.

Roger Eduardo Rivero Vega is a Senior Researcher in the Camagüey Meteorological Center of the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET), Cuba. He has been involved in more than 25 research projects in the fields of: 

• Statistical Weather Forecasting (Precipitation and Severe Local Storms)
• Physical Climatology (Radiation, Water and Energy Balance)
• Weather Modification (Precipitation Enhancement)
• Agrometeorology (National Meteorological and Agricultural Drought Surveillance and Early Warning Systems, Early Warning System for Hydrological Drought)
• Tropical Meteorology (Severe Local Storms, Weather Modification and Stratospheric Aerosols)
• Biometeorology (Human Health, Animal Production)
• Sucesional Reforestation
• Sustainable Agriculture (Rain and Wind Erosion)
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Assessments (Agriculture, Pastures and Cattle, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Forests, Energy) for Cuba First and Second National Communication to UNFCCC
• Physics of the Planetary Boundary Layer and Wind Energy
• Community based projects relative to livestock and milk production in Cuba

He has attended more than 183 national and international workshops, congresses and symposia related with meteorology and environmental sciences in Cuba, USSR, Nicaragua, Peru, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Iran, Switzerland, Paraguay, Panama, Dominican Republic, 

Dr. Khan holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of the West Indies (UWI). Her primary areas of research include understanding carbonate sediment production and facies variations around the island of Jamaica. Her work has assessed the dynamic beach system and factors influencing coastline changes, and linked sediment production to threatened near shore carbonate production zones.

She is co-author of the book ‘Physical impacts of some recent hurricanes on the coast of Jamaica’ and several peer reviewed publications. These publications include 2 coastal management themed book chapters, that highlight the influence of climate change in hazard mitigation, and more than 20 scientific publications and reports. She has had an active role in hazard assessment, environmental management and community based adaptation programmes for the past 10 years, both as a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Geography & Geology at UWI. 

At present she is acting as Director for the Marine Geology Unit at UWI and currently oversees local and national projects focused on coastal hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction as influenced by climate change. She has presented the findings of her work over the years at more than 30 technical and non technical meetings.

Dr. Khan is to date the only Jamaican recipient of the Provention Consortium young scientist award for Disaster Risk Reduction (2005), and is also the co - recipient of the Principal’s Research Award (Mona Campus in 2008) for the Project ‘BEACHES: Beach Erosion And Coastal Hazards: Ensuring Safety.’ 

Dr. Daniel Martínez is the Head of the Center for Atmospheric Physics in the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET), Cuba. His work includes being a Principal (PI) or Co- principal Investigator in research projects in the field of cloud physics and regional climate modeling - since 1992. His most current research project (PI) involves artificial rain enhancement by convective cloud seeding in Cuba (Phase II). He is also a Professor of postgraduate activities.

His past work experiences includes being an Instructor of Physics and Mathematics in the Higher Pedagogical Institute and the Higher Polithecnical Institute of Havana, from 1976-1981.A Junior and Senior researcher at the Institute of Meteorology from 1981-1988 and the Head of the Cloud Physics Department and Senior researcher from 1988 - 1999.

His memberships include being:

• The Senior Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Trieste. Italy. UNESCO
• On the Permanent Commission for the granting of higher research categories of the Cuban Environment Agency
• On the Scientific Council of the Institute of Meteorology
• The President of the Editorial Committee of the Cuban Meteorological Journal
• On the Commission of Scientific Degrees in Meteorological Sciences of Cuba

Dr. Martinez speaks Spanish, Russian, Italian and French and has authored several scientific publications.

Dr. Mark Bynoe is a graduate of the University of East Anglia where he obtained his doctoral degree in Environmental Economics and from the University of Edinburgh from which he graduated with a Master’s of Science degree in Resource Management. Dr. Bynoe has over twenty (20) years of experience in academia, and the public and private sectors. Currently, Dr. Bynoe is the Managing Director of Development Policy and Management Consultants (DPMC) and is attached to the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) as a Senior Resource/Environmental Economist, under the auspices of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (CFTC) Programme. 

Dr. Bynoe is a CFTC expert advising the Centre on the economic impacts of climate change and finding the most cost effective adaptation solutions. Given his drive and aptitude, Dr. Bynoe was recently promoted to head the Programme Development and Management Unit (PDMU) within the Centre. Dr. Bynoe has over twenty (20) publications, in reputable journals in the areas of environmental economics, food security and trade reforms. His areas of interest continue to be natural resource accounting, climate governance and climate financing.

Indi Mclymont-Lafayette is a multi-award winning journalist with just over fourteen years experience in media and communications. Since joining Panos Caribbean in 2006, she has honed her expertise in communications for development with significant focus being on communicating climate change issues in Jamaica, the Caribbean and internationally. The pilot environment communication project that she leads in Jamaica, the Voices for Climate change Education project, was in late 2011 named a UN Communication best practice case study. 

As the Vice-chairperson of the National Environmental Education Committee, Ms. McLymont-Lafayette, has coordinated the project, Voices for Climate Change Education: A National Climate Change Communication Strategy since it began in 2009.  It uses popular artists to reach a large sector of society that would not otherwise relate or respond to traditional media. The project has also worked with vulnerable sectors (energy, agriculture, insurance and tourism) to sensitise them on climate impacts.

She has played a key role as a regional partner in the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) which is the premier programme building Journalists capacity to cover the UN Climate meetings each year. The CCMP is a partnership between Panos, Internews and the International Institute for Environment and Development. A Jamaica government exhibition scholarship recipient, Ms. Mclymont-Lafayette holds a BA in Media and Communications (Honours), an MA in Counselling Psychology. She is also the Regional Director, Community, Media and Environment at Panos Caribbean.

Prior to Panos she was the coordinator/editor of the Jamaica Observer’s Allwoman magazine. Over the years she has done extensive coverage of environmental, health and gender issues in local, regional and international forums. She has received nine national and regional awards for her work in those areas, including the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) Merit Award for Excellence in Health Journalism in the Caribbean and the United Nations Population Fund 2003 Caribbean Media Awards – Platinum Award for coverage of Adolescent and Reproductive health issues. 

Roxann Brown is a PhD student in Physics at the University of the West Indies Mona under the supervision of Dr. Michael Taylor and Dr. Tannecia Stephenson. She is a member of the Climate Studies Group Mona (CSGM) where she does research in climate Physics. As an MPhil physics student she investigated some climate impact on health. The association was between dengue fever and the climate variables, temperature and rainfall. Her interest still lies in researching climate impacts on health however with the inclusion of future climate projections and its association with dengue.

After completing her MPhil, she enrolled to the PhD programme in Physics where currently she is downscaling Caribbean climate using a statistical downscaling model SDSM. She will be examining model outputs to determine the future impact of climate change on health, with a special focus on dengue fever. Roxann is married and is a mother of two very energetic young boys who she enjoys growing.