Updates
Tackling the Plastic Waste Crisis: The Basel Convention Plastic Waste Partnership
By Wendy Nelson, IMA Researcher Plastic waste pollution continues to be a significant environmental challenge for the world today. Each year,...
It’s Vacation Time! Visit our Beaches for these Benefits – But be Aware of Potential Risks
“This is the Second of a Four-Part Series of articles based on the recently launched State of the Marine Environment...
Leaving Just Our Footprints in the Sand: Tackling Coastal Debris and Plastic Polluted Oceans
Trinidad and Tobago is blessed with a diversity of landforms such as rolling hills, expansive flood plains, mountains and rocky...
What Do We Do
The Environmental Quality Programme (EQP) conducts research to determine water, sediment, biota quality in the coastal and marine environment. This includes monitoring of pollutants such as nutrients, heavy metals, bacteria, and hydrocarbons. Data generated from these tests provide information on the effectiveness of pollution reduction strategies and mitigation control, and assist in the interpretation of pollutant effects on natural systems by identifying possible sources, and impacts such as bioaccumulation and eutrophication.
Our Projects
Our Publications
A Survey of Bacteriological water quality at the coastline from Bonasse to Fullerton
Coastal Conservation Project: An Assessment of the Coral Reefs of Tobago
Final Report: The investigation and fingerprinting analysis of an oil spill in the Gulf of Paria
Heavy metal distribution in coastal sediments of Trinidad and Tobago
Department Members
Darryl Banjo
Senior Research Officer (Chemistry)
Christine Bullock
Senior Research Officer (Mircobiology)
Wendy Nelson
Research Officer (Chemistry / Trace Metals)
Sheldon Ramoutar
Research Officer (Microbiology)
Sheldon Ramoutar
Research Officer (Microbiology)
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