Workshop
Interregional Workshop on the Use of Nuclear Techniques for Sargassum Control
5 - 7 November 2019
Kingston , Jamaica
- Overview
- Documents
- Contact
Hosted by The Government of Jamaica through the Centre for Marine Sciences, University of the West Indies Kingston, Jamaica, the Interregional Workshop on the Use of Nuclear Techniques for Sargassum Control has the following objectives:-
- Current over view of Sargassum blooms in the Caribbean Sea. Basic training on nuclear and isotopic applications to address the Sargassum challenge, such as
- Stable isotopes
- Radionuclides
- Contaminant monitoring (metals, organic pollutants, radionuclides and microplastics)
- Specify and adapt activities in SIDS under project INT0093
- INT0093
Report of the Interregional Workshop on the Use of Nuclear Techniques to Address Sargassum - Applying Nuclear Science and Technology in Small Island Developing States in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals and the SAMOA Pathway
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IAEA Technical Cooperation implementation through
Ms Ximena GUTIERREZ
Tel: +43‐1‐2600‐22457
Email: X.E.Gutierrez@iaea.org
Contact person in Jamaica
Ms Mona Webber
Director, Centre for Marine Sciences
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus,
Kingston 7, JAMAICA
Tel: +1 876 935 8835‐6; Fax: +1 876 977 1033
E‐mail: mona.webber@uwimona.edu.jm or cms@uwimona.edu.jm
CRFM participant
Mr Milton HAUGHTON
Executive Director at Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM)
P.O. Box 642
Belize City, Belize
Tel: 501‐223‐4443
Mobile: 501‐610‐3315
milton.haughton@crfm.int
IAEA participants
Mr Saul PIJUAN PEREZ
TC‐LAC
International Atomic Energy Agency
1400 Vienna, Austria
Email: S.Perez‐Pijuan@iaea.org
T: +43‐1‐2600‐26319
Mr Peter SWARZENSKI
Radioecology Laboratory
International Atomic Energy Agency
4a Quai Antoine 1er, 98000 Monaco
Email: P.Swarzenski@iaea.org
T: +37‐7 97 97 72 78
CEP was established in 1981 as part of the Regional Seas Programme in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean Region’s fragile and vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems including endemic plants and animals.