The Buccoo Reef Trust facilitates postgraduate and
undergraduate university students in executing the research/fieldwork
components of their degrees. The projects are designed by the students,
in collaboration with the Director of Marine Resources and Fisheries
of the THA, to ensure that they are relevant to the needs of the island.
Following is a list of students and the titles of their research projects.
Summaries of the projects are available online where indicated, and
complete documents of all projects are available in the Buccoo Reef
Trust library.
2007
Claire
Standley (Oxford University) - Assessment whether Reef Check is
adequately representing the important suite of species with socioeconomic
value to the tourism industry. [Project
Summary]
Winston
Cowie (Oxford University) - Why have attempts at public participation
in the management of Buccoo Reef Marine Park failed? [Project
Summary]
James
Foley (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - Influence of local anthropogenic
terrestrial runoff on energy subsidies and trophic dynamics of coral
reefs in Tobago. [Project Summary]
Undergraduate
Field Course (University of New England) - Ecology and Conservation of the Caribbean (4 credits).
Led by Dr. Richard Langton and Dr. Jerri Fox
[Project Summary]
2006
2005
Charlotte
Matthews 
(King's College, London) - Assessment of video transect
and CPCe methodology as a useful management tool for coral monitoring
in Tobago.
Melanie
Broadhurst (Napier University, Edinburgh) - The Population Dynamics
of Acropora palmata South West Tobago 2005.
Adaoma
Wosu (Oxford University) - Stakeholder use of Buccoo Reef
Marine Park, Tobago: Incorporating socioeconomic analysis into MPA
management using GIS as a tool.
Marie-Ann
Chambers (Oxford University)
Gillian
M. John (UWI, Cave Hill) - Quantitative Characterisation of Land-Based
Sources of Marine Pollution in the Vicinity of the Buccoo Reef Marine
Park, Tobago.
2004
Alison
Ashlin (University of Oxford) - Is Conservation Education Effective?
A Case Study in Tobago.
Chris
Bentley (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - The Effect of
Remoteness on Recruitment of Reef Fish to Artificial Reef Modules.
Rosie
Carr (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - The Status of
Elkhorn Coral, Acropora palmata in Tobago.
Emma
Doherty (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - An Initial Assessment
of the Physical, Ecological and Social Aspects of Petit Trou Mangroves,
Tobago, and Possible Management Options for its Current Development.
Jessica
Fry (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - The Role of
Herbivory in Controlling the Coral-Algal Phase-Shift on Nutrient
Impacted Reefs.
David
Griffiths (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - Anthropogenic
physical damage to coral reefs in Tobago.
Laura
Robinson (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - Habitat Controls
on Fish Population Structure on Artificial Reefs.
2003
2002
Lucy
Gallagher-Freymuth (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - The potential
of tourism for funding marine protected areas in tropical countries:
a case study of the Buccoo Reef Marine Park and the Speyside Reefs
Marine Park (proposed) in Tobago.
Joel Kimber - Relative value of large fish to fishing
and ecotourism in Tobago. (Not Available)
Munirih
Mancey (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - Marine Protected Areas,
stakeholder response and resource use: a comparison of two areas
in Tobago.
Laure-Coraline
de Lassasie (University Wales, Bangor) - Recruitment and culture
of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus). (Not
Available)
Ronan
Roche (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) - Use of coral cores as
indicators of coastal pollution and reef health.
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