The Mona Geoinformatics Institute is pleased to be hosting the 2nd European Union INTERREG Caraibe Carib Coast Steering Committee Workshop and Conference October 8th-10th, 2019 in Kingston, Jamaica. A public conference will be held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on Wednesday October 9th at 6 pm entitled “CARIB-COAST: a Caribbean Network for the Prevention of Coastal Risks …Read more  »

 The Mona Geoinformatics Institute (MGI) paid courtesy calls on various academic departments across Japan in April 2019. Collaboration with MGI’s coastal studies unit – MGIBlue – were main points of discussion with a goal of combining the skills, expertise and research available among the institutions to apply cutting edge science and technology in building solutions …Read more  »

Frontiers of science wordcloud – climate change in the Caribbean MGIBlue was on show at the UK-UWI Frontiers of Science Meeting held March 19 – 21, 2019 at Chicheley Hall, UK. This will be a 3-year programme for the advancement of science in the Caribbean and the use of science to solve big climate change …Read more  »

  The Kingston Harbour Waterfront, Jamaica. Photo Credit Mona Geoinformatics Institute. Jamaica’s vital resource in the Kingston Harbour has been under constant threat from solid waste pollution for decades.  Much of this garbage finds its way into the 7th largest natural deep-water harbour in the world through complex gully and river drainage systems crisscrossing Kingston, …Read more  »

Technology for Shoreline Protection Jamaica will benefit from coastal and coral reef monitoring studies to be carried out under the Caribbean-wide project CARIB-COAST: Caribbean Network for Coastal Risks Related to Climate Change. The project will provide the necessary equipment, training and expertise in deploying state-of-the-art ocean and shoreline monitoring technology. Eroded coastline – Black River, …Read more  »

A great start to the New Year! The Mona Geoinformatics Institute (MGI) has been bestowed the RJR-Gleaner Honour Award for Science and Technology for 2018. Through all three major divisions – Environment and Natural Hazards, Software Development, and Human & Social – our institute continues to apply research and innovation in practical ways using empirical …Read more  »

DE will be teaming up with Caribbean regional partner, MGI (Mona Geoinformatics Institute – project lead) to work on an environmental data sharing protocol for a select group of Eastern Caribbean States. The DE-MGI team was awarded the contract to work with the 5Cs (Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre) who are the executing agency on this USAID funded project.  The project is part of a …Read more  »

Climate change and global warming With most populations of Caribbean countries located in coastal areas (70% of Jamaica’s population, for example, work or live in coastal communities), local resources remain exposed to direct threats in the form of the adverse effects of hurricanes, tsunamis, sea level rise, and consequent flooding and coastal erosion. Ava Maxam (deputy …Read more  »

Between September 28thand 29thof 2018, the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia was hit by dozens of earthquakes (see Figure 1), the most significant of which being of 7.5 magnitude and 10 km deep, approximately 80 km north of the coastal city of Palu. These earthquakes occurred along the Palu-Koro fault, which is a strike-slip fault zone, …Read more  »

In the Caribbean, like many other parts of the world, what may be signs of climate change are becoming more apparent and difficult to ignore. Seventeen (17) of the eighteen (18) warmest years on record have occurred since 2001, with 1998 being the exception to this trend. The frequency and severity of natural disasters such …Read more  »