Contributors
- Contributors
David Barker <david.barker@uwimona.edu.jm> is Professor of the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is co-founder and editor of the journal Caribbean Geography. He has published widely on the Caribbean, including books for the tertiary and secondary educational levels. His research interests include global change, climate change adaptation and rural sustainable livelihoods, small-scale agriculture and indigenous farming knowledge, food security, traditional resource management and environmental degradation in the Caribbean. He is on the Editorial Committee of, and a regular contributor to, CaribXplorer.
A. Anthony Chen <achen@flowja.com> is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Physics, University of the West Indies, Mona. He is the founder of the Climate Studies Group, Mona. His research interests include atmospheric physics, climate variability and change, local and regional climate modelling, climate change adaptation and renewable energy. He is a graduate of Boston College, University of the West Indies, Mona, Harvard University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. For his work in climate physics, he has been awarded the Silver Musgrave Medal and Order of Merit by the Government of Jamaica. He was also a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change team that shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former United States of America Vice President Al Gore in 2007 and currently serves on the Climate Change Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Land, Water, Environment and Climate Change, Jamaica.
Carlos G. García Quijano <cgarciaquijano@uri.edu>, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rhode Island, holds a master degree in Geology and a Ph.D. in Anthropology. His research and scholarly interests are focused on the interaction between coastal societies and their changing environments, with a special interest in small-scale fisheries, cognition, local ecological knowledge, Human Ecology, mixed ethnographic methods, and sustainability. García-Quijano has published the findings of his research on fishers’ cognition in American Anthropologist, Human Organization, Anthropology Newsletter, and the Caribbean Journal of Science. He is currently conducting research on coastal peoples’ economic strategies in the use of local resources in the southern coast of Puerto Rico.
Tamara Heartsill Scalley <theartsill@fs.fed.us> is a Research Ecologist at the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA-Forest Service in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. She has a B.A. in Geography, M.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Ecology. She has taught ecology field [End Page 239] courses in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica. Her research interests include forest dynamics in the Caribbean, wetlands, riparian vegetation and tropical streams. She has published on forest recovery after hurricanes, watershed land cover and stream ecosystems. Her current projects include urban forests and rivers. She is organizing a network database for the Caribbean Foresters <www.CaribbeanForesters.org>, a project that includes researchers, educators, and foresters from the wider Caribbean region.
Tania López Marrero <tanialm@rci.rutgers.edu> is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University. She holds a bachelor degree in Environmental Sciences and a master and Ph.D. in Geography. She teaches courses about Caribbean Geography, Natural Hazards and Disasters, and Maps, Map Use and Analysis. Her research interests and scholarly work broadly lie in the relationships between humans and the environment, and include vulnerability, adaptive capacity and resilience to natural hazards and disasters, forest ecosystem services and drivers of ecosystem change, and land cover change. She has published several articles about these topics on Puerto Rico and, more recently, on the insular Caribbean. She co-authored the book Atlas Ambiental de Puerto Rico (2006) and is now developing the mapping project Caribbean Environmental Mapping Initiative (CEMI) at Rutgers.
Manuel Valdés Pizzini <manuel.valdes@upr.edu> teaches Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Puerto Rico in Maya-güez. A former director of the UPR Sea Grant College Program, he now returned as Director for Research, and Director of the Marine Extension Program. Valdés Pizzini is also the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Coastal Studies. He is interested in the human-nature interface, from a historical and social...
