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38 FACULTY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE Professor of Livestock Science Department of Food Production Tel 868 662 2002 ext. 83328 E-mails gary.garciasta.uwi.eduprof.gary.garciagmail.com PROF. GARY WAYNE GARCIA Prof. Gary Wayne Garcia received his Professorship in May 2011 and delivered his Professorial Lecture in May 2013.He is a trained ruminant nutritionist.He was born in Tunapunanot far from The UWI St Augustine Campus. His earliest recollection of life was playing on the campus playing fields where he later learned to play rugby for Queens Royal College and The UWI. He obtained his PhD from The UWI in 1988 and has been teaching animal production at what is now the Faculty of Food and Agriculture and also at the School of Veterinary Medicine since 1990. He worked at the Sugarcane Feeds Centre upon graduating with the BSc General in Agricul- ture from 1978 to 1990. He began research in Neo-tropical Animal Wildlife in 1992 at the encouragement of five undergraduate students. He has developed in association with Dr. Keith Archibald the concept and philosophy of the Open Tropical Forage-Animal Production Laboratory OTF-APL and The Open School of Tropical Animal Science and Production OSTASP see website of the latter name. He has also developed the MSc in Tropical Animal Science and Production and this programme has been going since 1995. Recognizing the scarcity of information on neo-tropical animals Professor Garcia started the series of Wildlife Farmers and ProducersBooklets. He has written with numerous collabo- rating authors three books in this series. The first and second books 1 The Agouti Dasyprocta leporina and 2 The Collared Peccary Tayassu tajacuPeccari tajacu both available online at the website of the OSTASP. The third book is The National Birds and an Endangered Bird of Trinidad and Tobagoand is available at the following two websites comfauna.org and fundamazonia.org. The foreword to this latter book was written by the late Mr. Sir Ellis Clarke who was the last Governor General and the First President of Trinidad and Tobago. He has co-authored a fourth book written in French and English on A guide to the use of sugarcane and its by-products as animal feed A manual for farmers and livestock production specialists with Harry Archimde of the Institut Nationale de la Recherche Agronomique INRA of France. This book is also available at the website of the OSTASP. Professor Garcia has authored and co-authored 40 refereed publications many conference publications and has supervised and co-supervised three PhDs three MPhils and very many MSc research projects. The PhDs supervised by him have been in three different disciplines. The first was on Carnival Ecology a concept that he developed and pioneered. The second on Neo-tropical Animal Production of the Collared Peccary Tayassu tajacu a discipline in which he is a pioneer with other Latin American colleagues and this work was done in a French-speaking environment in French Guyana. The third was in the area of Reproductive Physiology of the male Agouti Dasyprocta leporina which was co-supervised with his long-time friend and collaborator Professor Andrew Oche Adogwa of the School of Veterinary Medicine. In order to service the animal needs for the research on the agouti Prof. Garcia has developed an Intensive Agouti Production Unit at the University Field Station since 1996 Buffalypso in Santa Cruz field