conference magazine - Caribbean Environmental Health Institute

12.00 – 12.30 Randy Brown: ReCaribe Planning Discussion
and Closing
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Thursday, June 24 th
Parallel Session 6 - Thursday June 24 th , 09:00 – 17:30
(Falmouth Room)
Session Title: Environmental Health and Water Quality
09.00 – 09.30 Shermaine Clauzel: Integrated Eco-health
Assessment in the Americas
09.30 – 10.00 Martin Forde: Assessing exposure to Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Caribbean
10.00 – 10.30 Nebojsa Fieskovic: Intelligent Energy Efficiency
Control in Hospitals
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 11.30 A.O. Al-jasser: Pipe service age effect on
water quality during water transmission and distribution
11.30 – 12.00 Sandy Nettles: Proper Well Construction Techniques
and Well Field Management in the Caribbean
12.00 – 12.30 May Cornwall: Wastewater infrastructure rehabilitation
in the USVI
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Nilsia Johnson: Assessment of Wastewater
Treatment Plants in Jamaica by the Ministry of Health
14.30 – 15.00 Laverne Walker and Alexandra DuBoulay:
Mainstreaming Saint Lucia’s National Plan of Action through
a North West Coast Water Quality Demonstration Project
15.00 – 15.30 Marlyn Rameet Samad: Analysis of the
Nutritional Content of Duckweed and the Quality of Water
that Supports its Growth
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 16.30 Gurpal Toor: Connections between Land Use
Changes and Water Quality in a Subtropical Urban Coastal
Watershed in Florida, USA
16.30 – 17.00 Alexandra DuBoulay: Development of Recreational
water standards for St. Lucia
17:00-17:30 Nadia Ferguson: The GEF-Reducing Pesticide
Run-off to the Caribbean Sea Project (REPCar) Project
Parallel Session 3 - Thursday June 24 th , 09:00 – 17:30
(Port Antonio Room)
Session Title: Integrated Watershed and Coastal Areas
Management (IWCAM)
09.00 – 10.30 Lessons Learned (Open)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.00 Lessons Learned (Open)
12.00 – 12.30 Metiek Ngirchechol: Developing Integrated
Water Resource Management in the Republic of Palau
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Lisa Kirkland: A Model for Sustainable Watershed
Management: The Case of Drivers River, Portland, Jamaica
14.30 – 15.00 Marko Tosic: Watershed Modeling in the Caribbean:
Application of Geographic Information Systems in the
Assessment and Management of Land-Based Sources of Marine
Pollution
15.00 – 15.30 Alex Ifill: Using GIS to monitor the potential
Impact of Development on Water Supply and Coastal Zone
Management in Barbados
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 16.30 Trevor Thompson & Marie Claire St. Jacques:
National Water Information Systems: A tool to support integrated
water resources management in the Caribbean
16.30 – 17.00 Halla Sahely: Combining sound science, legal
action and stakeholder involvement to protect a vulnerable
coastal aquifer on the island of St. Kitts
17.00 – 17.30 Angel Perez: Capacity building with a new paradigm
in environmental management: The Integrated Watershed
and Coastal Area Management in Cienfuegos, Cuba
Parallel Session 4 - Thursday June 24 th , 09:00 – 12:30
(Trelawny Room)
Session Title: Caribbean Sustainable Energy Forum
09.00 – 09.30 Ernie Stapleton: Renewable Energy Development
on Nevis - Lessons Learned
09.30 – 10.00 Herbert Samuel: Welectricity: Energy Efficiency,
meet Social Networking: A new approach to household energy
efficiency
10.00 – 10.30 Bill Meade: Performance Contracting for Energy
Services in the Caribbean Hotel Industry
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 11.30 Elliot Edwards: Energy Efficiency in Typical
Caribbean Office Buildings
11.30 – 12.00 Leonard Duane: Energy Efficiency Study of
Government Buildings
12.00 – 12.30 To be determined
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
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FIFTH BIENNIAL CARIBBEAN ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM AND EXHIBITION