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 (
2. The
use of Nino indices and other climatic indices in predicting and understanding
rainfall patterns over the
3. The use of upper air
data in predicting rainfall over the