Click and drag image to right to see full photo
“When I was a First Form student at the Micoud Junior Secondary School in St. Lucia, the very first gas station in that community was opened next to the school. I was totally taken by the shiny new gas pumps with the long handles and the pride the attendant took as he pumped gas into the fuel tanks of the waiting vehicles. I made up my mind then and there that I wanted to be a gas station attendant and I would quit school to pursue that career. With great excitement, I unfolded the wisdom of my intent to my mother. Lucky for me, wisdom is not genetic and my mother wasted no time in recalibrating the flight plan I was devising. Since then, I have purposed in my heart that if I must work hard, I would much rather work to the benefit of my Caribbean peoples. In this respect and on many levels, UWI is home.”

Dr. John Charlery

LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
FACULTY OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS
Tel: (246) 417 4368 • Email: jcharlery@uwichill.edu.bb

PROFILE

In the year after Dr. John Charlery entered a BSc programme at UWI (1986) he began work as a professional meteorologist. Over the next 15 years he went on earn a Diploma in Tropical Meteorology (Miami), an Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, MPhil and PhD degrees from UWI. After completing his PhD and winning the award for Best Researched Thesis, he served for one year as Deputy Director of Barbados Meteorological Services. Since 2002, Dr. Charlery has been a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics at the UWI Cave Hill Campus. One year after he joined The UWI staff, he was also appointed Coordinator of Computer Science and Information Technology, a position he currently fulfils alongside his regular responsibilities in teaching and research.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Charlery is particularly enthralled by the dynamics of the earth’s atmosphere and its responses to the natural and anthropogenic triggers. Hence, one of his primary areas of research is in Climate Modelling and Simulation. His counter-balancing interest is in Computer Visualization of dynamical systems. His research focus therefore lies at the crossroads of these two activities.