Category Archives: BVI
Recent (and Last) Products of Island Resources Foundation
This Blog Post provides a list of links to the downloadable (.PDF) versions of recent reports published by Island Resource Foundation: Environmental Profile of the Island of Anegada, British Virgin Islands Anegada Environmental Profile, Addenda I, II, III Environmental Profile … [Read more]
Final Report on the Status of BVI Island Environmental Profiles
Here’s are links to to the completed profiles for the four major islands of the BVI archipelago, plus the special islet-specific characterizations for 16 cays around Tortola, and added Technical Papers: Profiles: Anegada Environmental Profile Environmental Profile of the Island of … [Read more]
Judith Towle’s Remarks on Presenting the Tortola Environmental Profile
This is the presentation by Judith Towle, founding Vice President of Island Resources Foundation and Director of the four-island Environmental Profile Programme for the British Virgin Islands, as presented at the Tortola Profile Launch Ceremony in the J.R. O’Neal Botanic … [Read more]
Notice of the Loss of Christopher Howell, Caribbean Environmental Analyst
As Judith Towle began to muster information and experts to write the Tortola Environmental Profile in the British Virgin Islands this past January, we realized that we were missing input from long-time Program Associate and an early (1975) intern for … [Read more]
Virgin Islands is now part of a GPS Observational Network
Department of Disaster Management (DDM) – Thursday, March 21st, 2013 at 12:05 PM The Virgin Islands is now part of a Continuously Operating Caribbean Global Positioning System Observational Network, which will aid in the monitoring, understanding and prediction of earthquakes, … [Read more]
Dr. Michael O’Neal, Senior Research Fellow , Publishes Book on BVI Social History
Dr. Michael O’Neal is Senior Research Fellow at Island Resources Foundation and former President of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College at in the British Virgin Islands. Dr. O’Neal’s monograph on Virgin Islands social history, entitled Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism: Social Transformations … [Read more]
Videos and Blogs on KEW GARDEN Projects in the British Virgin Islands
We just uncovered links to the Kew Gardens web and blog sites that provide a lot of new (to us anyway!!) information about the Anegada characterization and census and technical skill training for conservation work in the BVI. [Read more]
Judith Towle’s Appreciation for the Dedication of the Dr. Edward L. Towle Island Systems Environmental Collection at HLSCC
On January 12th, the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College at Paraquita Bay, Tortola, British Virgin Islands held a major ceremony to commemorate the dedication of the College’s Caribbean Environmental reference collection at the Dr. Edward L. Towle Island Systems Environmental Collection. [Read more]
Fourth of Four Jost van Dyke NEWSLETTERS for the JVD Environmental Profile: February 2008
Fourth of Four Jost van Dyke NEWSLETTERS for the JVD Environmental Profile: February 2008 [Read more]
Third of Four Jost van Dyke NEWSLETTERS for the JVD Environmental Profile: December 2008
Third of Four Jost van Dyke NEWSLETTERS for the JVD Environmental Profile: December 2008 [Read more]
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