SocMon Project : Team

Dr. Patrick McConney
Project Manager
patrick.mcconney@cavehill.uwi.edu

Dr. Patrick McConney is a Senior Lecture at the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. He is responsible for promoting and supporting the use of SocMon in the English-speaking Caribbean and has conducted training at monitoring sites, at the White Water to Blue Water partnership meeting, in the Turks and Caicos Islands, at a UNEP regional workshop for MPA managers and for classes of graduate students. He has supervised several graduate students in the use of SocMon in their MSc and PhD research.

Maria Pena
Investigator
maria.pena@cavehill.uwi.edu

Ms Maria Pena, CERMES MSc graduate and Project Officer, who assisted with the inaugural SocMon Caribbean regional workshop in 2003, participated in the Negril Marine Park and Tobago Cays Marine Park SocMon studies, has presented research results at conferences and assists Dr. McConney in support of SocMon initiatives. She will assist in the delivery of training and other project outputs.

Katherine Blackman
Assistant SocMon trainer
katherine.blackman@cavehill.uwi.edu

Ms. Katherine Blackman, CERMES MSc graduate and Research Assistant, who conducted her MSc thesis, Information for the Negril Marine Park’s fisheries management plan using SocMon Caribbean methodology will assist Maria Pena in conducting SocMon training workshops in the project sites.

Dr. Peter Schuhmann
Economic valuation specialisation module writer
schuhmannp@uncw.edu

Dr. Peter Schuhmann, Lecturer, University of North Carolina and CERMES Affiliate Lecturer, will produce a specialisation module on economic valuation of natural resources to enhance SocMon training.

Partnerships will also be forged or strengthened with key players in the participating fisheries authorities to foster ownership of SocMon rather than treat them as passive beneficiaries.


SocMon team leaders at the 5 CRFM sites