The Fellowship, valued at GBP £30,000, provides grant funding and structured academic mentorship to support his doctoral research. As part of the award, Mr. Reynolds will undertake a six-month research placement at the University of Oxford, where he will be mentored by David Howard, Professor of Sustainability at Kellogg College. This international collaboration will enhance his research capacity, expand scholarly networks, and provide access to world-class resources in sustainability and climate science.

Mr. Reynolds specializes in palaeoclimatology, with a research focus on reconstructing past environmental and climatic conditions using sediment cores extracted from mangrove ecosystems. His PhD thesis, titled “A Multi-Proxy Evaluation of the Environmental Change Reconstruction for the Turtle Crawle Bay and Manatee Bay Region,” investigates periods of environmental change and extreme weather events that extend beyond the current instrumental meteorological record. His work aims to improve understanding of the frequency and intensity of prehistoric tropical cyclones in the Caribbean, thereby strengthening regional climate adaptation strategies.

In addition to his palaeoclimatology research, Mr. Reynolds has been trained in disaster risk financing and predictive weather hazards and has been an active member of the Climate Studies Group Mona since 2017. He contributed to the State of the Caribbean Climate Report (2020), supported drought early warning systems research through a 2023 internship with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, and co-authored the Climate Profile for Jamaica for the “COP26 Futures We Want – Jamaica Country Profile” in collaboration with researchers from the University of Cambridge (2021).

Mr. Reynolds completed his BSc in Geography with a minor in Geology at the Faculty of Science and Technology, The UWI, in 2019.