Project group (*member of the Scientific Council)

 

  • Pierre Michard Beaujour (Haiti)

    PhD student, Université des Antilles

  • Kerri-Ann Bennett (Jamaica)

    PhD student, University of the West Indies

  • Dr. Etienne Bezault * (Guadeloupe)

    Conservation Genetics, Université des Antilles

  • Dr. Roberto Alonso Bosch * (Cuba)

    Evolutionary Biology and Herpetology, Universidad de La Habana

  • Dr. Christopher Cambrone (Guadeloupe)

    Coordinator in charge of scientific projects

  • Prof. Wilson Celestin * (Haiti)

    Agronomy and Freshwater Ecology, Université d'Etat d'Haïti

  • Délisse Delannay (Guadeloupe)

    REVPOL Project Officer

  • Dr. Charlotte Dromard * (Guadeloupe)

    Marine Biology, Université des Antilles

  • Jean-Marry Exantus (Haiti)

    PhD student, Université des Antilles

  • Lemuel Familia Rodriguez (Dominican Republic)

    Master student, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté

  • Sara Genta (France)

    Administrative and financial manager

  • Céline Héloïse (Martinique)

    Master student, Université des Antilles

  • Prof. José-David Hernandez-Martich * (Dominican Republic)

    Conservation Genetics, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo

  • Aurélie Jean-Pierre (Guadeloupe)

    PhD student, Université des Antilles

  • Dr. Sophie Labaude (France)

    Communication and popular science

  • Bryan Leborgne (Guadeloupe)

    Field Technician - Ornithology

  • Claudia Loiz (Cuba)

    PhD student, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté

  • Jeffey Mackenzy Paul (Haiti)

    PhD student, Université des Antilles

  • Claire Maurice-Madelon (Martinique)

    REVPOL Project Coordinator

  • Yuna Mélane (Guadeloupe)

    Master student, Université des Antilles

  • Dr. Elisabeth Odacre (Guadeloupe)

    Education Officer

  • Jean-Paul Paddack (Switzerland)

    President

  • Elise Queslin (Guadeloupe)

    Program Director

  • Dr. Guillaume Rieucau * (USA)

    Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Biology, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

  • Maryne Romuald (Guadeloupe)

    Undergraduate student, Université des Antilles

  • Prof. Ingo Schlupp * (USA)

    Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography, University of Oklahoma

  • Dr. Janine Seetahal * (Trinidad & Tobago)

    Disease Ecology, The University of the West Indies

  • Dr. Henri Vallès * (Barbados)

    Marine Biology , The University of the West Indies

  • Dr. Annabelle Vidal (Cuba)

    MERCI Project Officer

Student Alumni

  • Norma Anthony (Dominica)
  • Nicole Atherley (Barbados)
  • Rachel Batista-Alvarez (Cuba)
  • Naëma Beziat (Guadeloupe)
  • Anaisa Cajigas-Gandia (Cuba)
  • Gloria Chance (Guadeloupe)
  • Mariam Curbelo Cruz (Cuba)
  • Sergio del Castillo (Cuba)
  • Yani Fontenla (Cuba)
  • Saul González Rosales (Cuba)
  • James Josaphat (Haiti)
  • Linda Matignon (Guadeloupe)
  • Leila Palmyre (Guadeloupe)
  • Aimara Pujadas Clavel (Cuba)
  • Rodet Rodriguez-Silva (Cuba)
  • Lens Jerry Saint-Louis (Haiti)
  • Sandy Sébastien (Guadeloupe)
  • Steven Son (Martinique)

Scientific advisers

  • Dr. Sophie Arnaud-Haond (IFREMER, France), Population Genetics and Marine Biology
  • Dr. Anne Becker (Ross University, St Kitts & Nevis), Microbiology and Disease Ecology
  • Dr. Jean-Marc Blazy (INRA, Guadeloupe), Agroecology
  • Mr. Maikel Canizares, MSc, (Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Cuba), Zoology
  • Dr. Jean-Michel Gaillard (CNRS, France), Population Biology and Quantitative Ecology
  • Dr. Reia Guppy (University of Trinidad and Tobago), Marine sciences
  • Dr. Anthony Herrel (CNRS, MNHN, France), Evolutionary Biology
  • Prof. Sixto Inchaustegui (Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), Conservation Biology
  • Dr. Gladys Loranger-Merciris (Université des Antilles, Guadeloupe), Invertebrate Ecology
  • Dr. Roger Pradel (CNRS, France), Population Biology and Quantitative Ecology

Board of Directors

  • Mr. Jean-Paul Paddack, President
  • Mrs. Chantal Comte
  • Dr. Jean-Raphaël Gros-Désormeaux, Secretary
  • Prof. Agnès Leblond
  • Dr. Elisabeth Odacre
  • Mr. Olivier Rollin, Treasurer
  • Prof. Alain Sandoz

Honorary committee

  • Ms. Vera Michalski-Hoffmann, Honorary President
  • Prof. Jacques Caneill, retired Professor of Agronomy
  • Mr. Patrick Chamoiseau, novelist, awarded Goncourt Prize in 1992
  • Ms. Hélène Conway-Mouret, member of the French Senate, President of the France-Caribbean friendship group
  • Dr. Bruno David, President of the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)
  • Sir David Doyle, St Kitts and Nevis Ambassador to UNESCO
  • Prof. Jean-Claude Fortier, retired University Professor, former Rector of the Academies of Lille and Dijon, former President of the Université de Bourgogne
  • Mr. François-Michel Lambert, member of the French National Assembly, President of the France-Cuba friendship group

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