| 10:30–1. | Plenary Lecture The Biological Information Revolution: Making Data Accessible And Integrated And Keeping It Open For All. Tim J. P. Hubbard |
| 11:30–2. | Plenary Lecture Leonard O’Garro |
| 12:30 | Lunch Mona Visitors’ Lodge |
| 1:30 | Registration |
| 2:00–3. | Plenary Lecture Sustainment of Capital Assets: From Skyways to Highways to Driveways. Wesley Harris |
| 3:00–4. | Aviation Infrastructure Investment – A Quantitative Perspective. John-Paul Clarke, Bruno Miller |
| 3:25–53. | Young Scientist Lecture |
| 3:55 | Business Meeting |
| 9:00–5. | Plenary Lecture Bucking The Trend: Lead Poisoning Of Children In Sub-Saharan Africa. Jerome Nriagu |
| 10:00 | Intermission |
| 10:25–6. | John Caesar |
| 10:50–7. | Caribbean Volcanoes: Friend or Foe? Trevor Jackson |
| 11:15–8. | The Bathtub effect on climate in the Caribbean - El Niño and La Niña. A. Anthony Chen |
| 11:40–9. | Structure And Properties Of Synoptic Systems That Affect The Caribbean Region. (Part 1 – The Rainfall Season of May-July). Albert Owino |
| 12:05–10. | The Influence of the tropical Atlantic vs. the tropical Pacific on Caribbean Rainfall. A. Anthony Chen, Michael A. Taylor, David B. Enfield |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 10:25–11. | Heresy today...? Tomorrow? Errol Y. Morrison |
| 10:50–12. | The Mechanism of Worm-Induced Diarrhoea. Ronald Young, Erica Robinson, Tom McDonald, Edward Cooper |
| 11:15–13. | Molecular Characterization and Phylogenetic Analysis of Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus (HTLV-I/II) from French Guiana, Surinam and Guyana. Mirdad Kazanji |
| 11:40–14. | Effect Of Momordica charantia Fruit Juice Extracts On Amino Acid Transport In L6 Myotubes. Emanuel Cummings, H. Hundal, H. Wackerhage, N. Woods, J. Singh |
| 12:05–15. | Sickle cell trait: an advantage for anaerobic performance? O. Hue, Maryse Etienne-Julan, Fagnété Sara, Marie-Dominique Hardy-Dessources, Laurent Marlin, Claude Hertogh, Stephen Blonc |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 10:25–16. | Geochemisrty Of Jamaican Soils. Gerald Lalor |
| 10:50–17. | Biodiversity as an Environmental Management Tool in Agricultural Landscapes: Implications for Agro-Chemical Usage. Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, Balfour Spence |
| 11:15–18. | New Black Corals from Jamaican Reefs. George Warner |
| 11:40–19. | Jamaica’s Pilot Pollution Release And Transfer Register. Claude Davis |
| 12:05–20. | Integrated Management And Conservation Of Guyana’s Coast and Coastal Resources: Training and Screening of Issues and Problems for Integrated Coastal Zone Management. Philip N. B. Da Silva |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30–21. | Plenary Lecture Ali Sayigh |
| Section A | |
| 2:30–22. | Natural Gas – The Alternative Fuel. Raymond Wright |
| 2:55–23. | Solution To The Shortage Of Petroleum Geoscience Professionals In The Caribbean. Richard Dawe, W. Bertrand |
| 3:20 | Intermission |
| 3:35–24. | Modeling RS CVn Light Curves. John Lodenquai |
| 4:00–25. | Narrow-To-Broadband Fibre-Optic Laser For Fibre-Optic Sensing Based On Spontaneous Brillouin Scattering. Keith De Souza |
| 4:25–26. | A Treatment of Hazardous Inorganic Metal Wastes and Wastewater Using Ordinary Portland Cement. Marsha Mahabir, Ivan Chang-Yen |
| 4:45–27. | A Cost-effective Remediation Option for Heavy Metal-contaminated Soils in East Trinidad. Azeena Ali, Ivan Chang-Yen, R. Osborne, I. Bekele |
| 2:30–28. | Malaria: Nutritional Implications for Young Children. Shanomae Rose |
2:55–29. |
The Biospectroscopic Studies Of HIV Patients’ Hair. Vishwa Verma, N.D. Whyte |
| 3:20 | Intermission |
| 3:35–30. | Detection of Leptospires in Clinical Material. Paul. D. Brown, Dianne G. Carrington, Claudia Gravekamp, Herman van de Kemp, Charles N. Edwards, Stephen R. Jones, Patsy R. Prussia, Stewart Garriques, Wiepko J. Terpstra, Paul N. Levett |
| 4:00–31. | Developing New Molecular Diagnostic Tools For Human Onchocerciasis. A. F. Ogunrinade |
| 4:25–32. | Optimization And Validation of High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) With Photodiode-Array Ultraviolet Detection To Analyse Domic Acid In The Green Mussel Perna viridis And Oysters (Crassotrea sp) From The Gulf Of Paria (Trinidad and Venezuela). Luisa Rojas de Astudillo, Ivan Chang-Yen, Jose Franco Soler |
| 4:45–33. | An Economic Bioassay For Determining Serum Antibiotic Concentration In Rabbit. Srinivas D. Sithu, Kaslyn Holder, Shevon Miller |
| 2:30–34. | Novel Natural Products From The Antillean Flora. Helen Jacobs |
| 2:55–35. | Biosmart Materials: Their Use In Biosensor Fabrication And Drug Delivery Systems. Dyer Narinesingh, S. Brahim, A. Guiseppi-Elie |
| 3:20 | Intermission |
| 3:35–36. | An Investigation Into Arcing Of Sugar Mill Roller Shells In Jamaica. Gossett Oliver, Vernon Buchanan, Nilza Justiz-Smith |
| 4:00–37. | The Potential of Red Mud in Casting. Nilza Justiz-Smith, Gossett Oliver, Vernon Buchanan |
| 4:25–38. | The Possible use of Red Mud & Sodium Silicate to be used as a Substitute for Sand Casting. Vernon Buchanan, Nilza Justiz-Smith, Gossett Oliver |
| 4:45–39. | Use Of Red Mud As Construction Material. Willard R. Pinnock |
| 9:00–40. | Plenary Lecture Compton Bourne |
| 10:00 | Intermission |
| 10:25–41. | Effective Science Demands Effective Democracy. Arnoldo Ventura |
| 10:50–42. | The Governance of Science. Junor Barnes |
| 11:15–43. | Research in the Sciences at the University of the West Indies – Limitations and Possibilities Baldwin Mootoo |
| 11:40–44. | Understanding Interactive Media in Science Education: Research, Development and Policy Lessons from Multiple Evaluations. David D. Kumar |
| 12:05–45. | The Future Of Chemical Information: IT In Spectroscopic Data Handling. Robert Lancashire, Debbie-Ann Facey |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 10:25–46. | Nano-Science: What’s in it for the Caribbean? Ishenkumba Kahwa |
| 10:50–47. | Production Of Legume Protein Isolates. Winston A. Mellowes, R. K. Birla |
| 11:15–48. | Protein-Protein Molecular Interactions Of Wheat Flour During Extrusion Processing: Rheological And Expansion Studies With Sodium Bisulfite And L-cysteine. Ian Lambert, Jozef L. Kokini |
| 11:40–49. | Studies on the Interaction of Some Bivalent Metal Ions with Bioactive Ligands. Brij Tewari |
| 12:05–50. | Preparation Characterisation And Utilisation Of Activated Carbon In The Caribbean Region. M. Castellanos, Winston A. Mellowes, F. Márquez |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30–51. | Advances In Tourist Destination Web-site Technology. Michael Craven, Leslie Facey, Mervyn Curtis |
| 1:55–52. | Internet Use Among Small and Mid-sized Businesses in Guyana: Unrealized Potential? Mary S. Sithu, Pradeepa Bholanath, Troy Valladares |
| 1:30–54. | Chemical Evolution and Primeval Seas. Naeem Hamid, Brij B. Tewari |
| 1:55–55. | Small Lanthanide Nanoclusters: Syntheses, Structures and Electronic Spectroscopy. M. Singh-Wilmot, Ishenkumba A. Kahwa, Alan J. Lough, Andrew J. P. White, David J. Williams |
| 2:20–56. | Single-Crystal XRD, TEM, And Thermal Studies Of The Satellite Reflections In Nepheline. Ishmael Hassan |
| 2:45 | Intermission |
| 3:00–57. | Plenary Lecture Analysis of Persistent Organic Pollutants by GC and GC/MS. Joe Hedrick |
| 4:00 | Agilent Workshop |
| 4:30 | Closing Ceremony |