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FOREWORD The Mission Statement of The University of the West Indies at its establishment begins To unleash West Indian potential for economic and cultural growth by high quality teaching and research aimed at meeting critical regional needs.Some 67 years later this responsibility has in no way waned and indeed our development responsibility and role in Caribbean societies is felt ever more keenly at The University of the West Indies. Consistent with this in our 2007-2012 Strategic Plan we increased our emphasis on research for knowledge generation driven by the clear understanding that in the final analysis it is knowledge that potentially drives national and regional development and driven as well by a clear appreciation of the societal responsibility of The UWI in this context since The UWI has by far the largest pool of technical and professional human resources for research in our region. In our current 2012-2017 Strategic Plan we retained this developmental emphasis but we made a very deliberate and important shift in our approach. For in order for the knowledge we generate to have significant developmental impact two important dimensions and emphases must be fulfilled. First the nature of the research its design and objectives must be such that its goal from the onset is to have significant developmental impact. Secondly to achieve full impact we must develop mechanisms and approaches that facilitate the transfer of the knowledge we generate to our key stakeholders in both the private and public sectors. At the very least initially this requires creating opportunities to showcase the research being conducted across our faculties departments and centres at St.Augustine to key stakeholders and the general publicwith the clear expectation that from this will emerge the embryonic partnerships and opportunities that will flourish and grow thereby ensuring that we work together to drive the integration of the Universitys knowledge into the productive national devel- opment sectors in Trinidad and Tobago. This is where a National Innovation System for Trinidad and Tobago must start with the goal that it will ultimately evolve into the sophisticated set of relationships between knowledge producers and knowledge users for commercial gain and for economic development that is the essence of a flourishing National Innovation System. The St.Augustine Campus is leading the way in this emphasis on ensuring that our research at The UWI must have significant and measurable development impact. An important initiative to further this goal is the development and operation of a Research Development Impact Fund at St. Augustine driven by the Office MESSAGE FROM THE UWI OFFICE OF RESEARCH Computer model predictions of potential flooding from extreme events 50 year along the St.Joseph Riverproduced for a Masters project carried out as part of the RDI Fund projectTerrestrial Flood Risk and Climate Change in the lower Caroni river basinTrinidadAdaptation Measures for Vulnerable Communities.Grey shading indicates topography ranging from 2 m black to 8 m white.Background mappingOpenStreetMap.CreditsDr.Matthew Wilson principal investigator Vishwanath Maraj computer simulations. Project websitehttpwww.caronifloodriskproject.com 16