The University of the West Indies
at Mona, Jamaica
The University of the West Indies
at Mona, Jamaica
DBML has two residential buildings. The larger of these is a dormitory block with 8 rooms, each holding four persons (each room has its own verandah and bathroom), a large dining room/sitting room/lecture hall and a fully equipped kitchen. The block also has 2 bedsitters, each with a kitchenette.
The other residential building contains 6 apartments with either one, two or three bedrooms. Each flat has a bathroom, a living/dining room, a verandah and a kitchen.
Bed linen, crockery, cooking utensils etc are provided, but not towels.
Meals
Investigators usually opt to buy their own food and cook for themselves. However, catering
for breakfast, lunch and dinner is provided for groups, upon request. Visitors with special
diets are asked to indicate this on the
Usage application.
Booking Forms : Visiting Scientists | UWI Visitors | Group Usage
The main Laboratory building houses five research rooms, an instrument room, a library/seminar room, offices and a large wet lab. The latter is divided into six bays, each provided with electrical outlets, running salt and fresh water, and has a two-tier central wet table with twelve shallow and six deep tanks. Additional wet tables, as well as two flow-tanks (of 15 cm and 60 cm width) are available for experimental work. Two workshops provide technical support.
There are several computers available for general use, all with Internet access. Audiovisual equipment is provided for lectures and presentations. Printing, scanning and faxing facilities are also available. Group leaders, visiting scientists and students are encouraged to bring laptops, to take advantage of DBML's wireless network.
Facility use fees depend on the user and duration of use.
Prospective divers must possess certification from a recognized agency, have completed a dive medical within the last 12 months and may be required to demonstrate their diving skills in a checkout dive.
Discovery Bay has a wide range of dive sites, whether you are a novice seeing the
coral reefs for the first time, or are an experienced coral reef biologist. Most back reef sites are
shallow and accessible to snorkellers. On both the West and East Fore reef, we maintain permanent
moorings in about 17m of water, providing safe access to the deep reefs. Diving groups may also go
beyond the confines of the Bay, for example, to Rio Bueno where divers can investigate coral wall features
or to Pear Tree Bottom where coral canyons support a wide variety of organisms.
There are several boats, of varying sizes and capacity, available for use by visitors.
Projects carried out at DBML include examining coastal water quality, working with fishers to improve their catches and studying the processes that marine populations use to renew themselves.
DBML hosts school groups and works with community NGOs to strengthen awareness of coastal environment issues and interest students in careers in marine science.
DBML is located about 1 hour from the Montego Bay airport. The facility is situated on the water at Discovery Bay and is an excellent location for educational field trips, scientific research, seminars and workshops.
The University of the West Indies
Mona, Jamaica
Tel: (876) 935-8835/6 | Fax: (876) 977-1033
