Margarette Mayers-Als

I worked as an Aeronautical Meteorologist at the Barbados Meteorological Services for ten years before coming to the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) as a Meteorologist/Lecturer where I have been working for the past three years.

Currently I teach Aeronautical and Dynamic meteorology at CIMH to both Mid-Level and Senior-Level technicians. I also lecture in portions of the Introductory and Dynamic Meteorology syllabus at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill campus. For the future I am positioned to be teaching the Radar Meteorology course at UWI.

My areas of research include but are not limited to:

1.  Localized convection over the Eastern Caribbean (Barbados in particular);

2. The use of Nino indices and other climatic indices in predicting and understanding rainfall patterns over the Eastern Caribbean;

3. The use of upper air data in predicting rainfall over the Eastern Caribbean.