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worked on “The Pliocene reefs of Jamaica: implications for biodiversityand faunal turnover,” focusing on the Hopegate Formation, Jamaica,under a National Geographic Society grant.Dr Stemann also worked with principal investigator Dr Daryl Domning(Howard University, USA) on “The dawn of land and sea mammals in theWest Indies: Seven Rivers, Jamaica” under another National GeographicSociety grant.Dr Balfour Spence continues to represent UWI on the CaribbeanDisaster Management (CADM) Project, an initiative of the CaribbeanDisaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) and the JapanInternational Development Agency (JICA). Through this project theDepartment has secured equipment valued at close to US$80,000 for usein the development of its programme in disaster management. Dr Spencehas overall responsibility for community disaster management planning inthe project.Dr Spence received two research grants from the Japan InternationalCooperation Agency through CDERA. The grants are for conductingresearch on the relationship among disaster, development and poverty,and on the behaviour of residents of flood-prone areas during floodevents. The research is being conducted in collaboration with Dr FaisalButt.Dr T. Katada of Gumma University, Japan, has been assigned as a JICAshort-term education expert to the Department to collaborate with DrSpence in drafting the programme content for a proposed MSc inDisaster Management to be offered by the Department.The Department was grateful for the donation of two sets of journals,which will be placed in the University Library. A full set of the Journal ofBiogeography, from the personal collection of the late Dr David Watts,Department of Geography, University of Hull, was donated to theDepartment by his widow. Professor Colin Clarke, of the School ofGeography and the Environment, University of Oxford, donated thefollowing sets of journals: Geography (from 1957), Transactions, Institute ofBritish Geographers (from 1960), Area (from 1965), Latin American ResearchReview (from 1990), and Bulletin of Latin American Research (from 1967).Professor Clarke has also undertaken to keep these journals up to dateannually.320