Dr Judith Gobin

Lecturer (Zoology)

Educational Background:

• PhD (Marine Ecology) University of Exeter, England UK 1994
• MPhil (Pollution Ecology) UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies 1988
• BSc (Zoology/Botany) U.W.I., St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies 1982

Courses Offered:

•    In the Dept. of Life Sciences

Marine Ecology

Coastal Ecosystems Management 

•    In the Faculty of Engineering

Environmental Impact Assessments of the Coastal Zone

Current Research Interests/Projects:

• Marine Invasive species- commercial transport vessels, recreational vessels
• Biodiversity of rocky shores and seagrass environments of Trinidad and Tobago. Component of the NAGISAand the Census of Marine Life (COML) – both international collaborative projects
• Biodiversity of marine benthos of the East Coast of Trinidad and Tobago
• Updating the polychaete and nematode taxonomic species list for Trinidad and Tobago
• Review of Benthic surveys around Trinidad and Tobago, and compilation of database.
• Exploration (oil and gas) and Industrial pollution impacts on marine benthic biodiversity.

  Public Service: 

• 2005-2008: Member, Asa Wright Nature Centre Board

Selected Bibliography:

• Gobin, J.F. (in press). Free-living marine nematodes of hard bottom substrates in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.

• Gobin, J.F and Warwick, R.M. (2006). Geographical variation in species diversity: A comparison of marine polychaetes and nematodes. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 330, 234-244. 

• D.Pantin, D.Brown, S.Francis-Brown, J.Gobin, J.Hancock,  M.Mycoo and W. Rennie (2005).  Research Project Report to Department for International development (DFID), UK.  Policy relevant knowledge on feasible alternative natural resource based strategies for enhancing livelihoods (R8325)-a Communication Project.  A DFID/UWI (SEDU) Technical Report. 

• Gobin, J. (1998-2006). Consultancy Reports detailing the marine benthic communities of the coasts of Trinidad and Tobago. Prepared for oil and gas companies (eg. bpTT, BG) and environmental companies in TT (eg. Lee Young and Partners, Ecoengineering and Coastal Dynamics).

• Agard, J.B.R. and Gobin, J.  (2000). In  Seas at the Millenium: An Environmental Evaluation. Chapter 40: The Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago.  Ed. C. Sheppard, Elsevier Science Ltd. Pergamon.

• Mackie, A.S.Y and Gobin, J. (2004). Johnstonia, Quatrefages, 1886 (Annelida, Polychaetea): proposed conservation.  Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51 (1): 10-12.  Case 2859.

• Mackie, A.S.Y and Gobin, J.  (1993). A review of the genus Johnstonia, Quatrefages, 1886 (Polychaeta, Annelida), with a description of a new species from Trinidad, West Indies.  Zoologica Scripta, 22:229-241.  

• Agard, J.B.R, Gobin, J. and Warwick, R.M. (1993).  Analysis of marine macrobenthic community structure in relation to pollution, natural oil seepage and seasonal disturbance in a tropical environment (Trinidad, West Indies).  Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.,  92: 233-243.