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“In addition to science, I fancied myself a writer. One year I convinced my brothers to write Jamaica’s national pantomime! I would like to be thought of both as a lecturer who loves his students and as a researcher who is passionate about his research, and inspire a future generation of UWI Faculty to do the same. One of the best things that ever happened to me was being mentored by a great UWI professor - Anthony Chen. I love The UWI. It is the place that provided me with a solid educational foundation that was second to none. It is where my interest in the study of Caribbean climate dynamics, change and variability was born. I want to help protect the quality of UWI degrees. After all, they are the degrees behind my name.”

Dr. Michael Taylor

LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
FACULTY OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
MONA CAMPUS, JAMAICA
Tel: (876) 927-2480 • Email: Michael.Taylor@uwimona.edu.jm

PROFILE

Dr. Michael Taylor’s stellar academic career has been made possible by financial awards for excellent scholarship. He was one of the privileged and hardworking few to win a Jamaica Government Exhibition Scholarship to attend The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. In keeping with these beginnings, in 1992 he earned a BSc with First-Class Honours from UWI, and went on to receive a UWI Postgraduate Scholarship to embark on an MPhil programme. The final year of MPhil studies was funded by an Organisation of American States (OAS) Fellowship. Taylor then left for the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, where he pursued a PhD funded by a University of Maryland Postgraduate Fellowship and later, a National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) Fellowship. He successfully completed his PhD in 1999 and returned to teach in the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at UWI Mona. It is from this base of research and teaching that he has received an International Young Scientist Award (2004), a Young Scientist/Technologist Award from the Scientific Research Council of Jamaica (2005), and no less than three UWI Mona Research Awards (2003, 2007 and 2008).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Understanding the dynamical mechanisms that drive climate variability within the Caribbean.
• Deducing climate change and long term climate variability within the Caribbean, through the use of climate models.
• Understanding/Quantifying the Caribbean region’s vulnerability to climate change.
• Building a Caribbean Climate Databases.
• Enabling seasonal prediction of Caribbean climate.