Since we are funded by nine Eastern Caribbean countries we have attempted to extend our celebrations beyond Trinidad & Tobago and as such we will be focusing activities in a different country each quarter.
In this first quarter our attention will be on St Vincent & the Grenadines where we will partner with the National Emergency Management Office for its Volcano Awareness Week. During April through June we are at home in Trinidad & Tobago where we plan to mount a roving geo-hazards exhibition in Port of Spain, San Fernando and Tobago. July through September we head to Barbados to launch a Tsunami Smart campaign and the last quarter of the year our attention turns to Dominica for Earth Science Week in October.
Throughout the year, we are pleased to offer tours to the public through our Open House which will be held on the last Thursday of each month from 2-6pm at our offices in St. Augustine. This year we also plan to launch our new website and we eagerly await the opening of our new building currently being constructed behind our existing offices.
Our 60th anniversary will be a year of strengthening partnerships as we continue to work with stakeholders and national disaster organizations in the region for the special events listed above. We are also pleased to be collaborating with the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management in Trinidad & Tobago on its 3rd annual National Primary School Quiz as well as the Montserrat Volcano Observatory in the publication and launch of a new volcano children’s book.
Next month we will be working together with the Council of Caribbean Engineering Organizations and the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering in Pavia, Italy to host a stakeholder meeting here in Trinidad for the Real Time Earthquake RisK ReducTion (REAKT) project being funded by the European Commission.
In December, we bring the year to a close with a Staff Recognition Ceremony, where we will invite and honour former and current staff who have made valuable contributions to the development of the Seismic Research Centre.
¬ Stacey Edwards, Education Officer SRC.
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The 60th anniversary logo
The 60th anniversary logo reflects the three colours of the Seismic Research Centre; green representing earthquakes, red representing volcanoes and blue representing tsunamis. The logo consists of a set of concentric circles, designed to reflect the concentric structure of the Earth. The logo’s curved design aims to mimic a chronometer, thereby reflecting the passage of time. The curved seismic trace illustrates continuous seismic monitoring since 1953 and the contributing countries of the Eastern Caribbean are aptly represented in the Lesser Antilles arc. |
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