Dr. John Charlery is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Computer Science at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies. Prior to joining the academic staff of the UWI, he was the Deputy Director of the Barbados Meteorological Services, where he served for a number of years. He is therefore a self-described Meteorologist-turned-Computer-Scientist-turned-Climate-Change-Modeler and has directed his attention mostly in the areas of simulation and dynamic modeling.

A significant part of his ongoing research, publications and PhD students’ supervision, is in climate modeling, interpretation of climate models’ results and climate scenarios generation. He developed the Climate Modeling Laboratory at the Cave Hill Campus of the UWI and has been running it from its inception, where the emphasis is on dynamic and statistical regional climate modeling over the Caribbean. He is a member of the Caribbean Climate Modelers Group, which is made up of cross-sectoral representation from the campuses of the UWI and the Cuban Institute of Meteorology (INSMET). His primary interest has been in the identification and development of methodologies which address “smaller-scale” issues (e.g. tropical islands, watersheds, mesoscale interactions, etc.) within the global climate change processes and to focus on the development of best-fit methodologies for climate model downscaling for the Caribbean.

For more than a decade he has served as the principal climate change specialist on a host of regional projects. Dr. Charlery served as the Cave Hill Campus Coordinator for Computer Science and Information Technology for more than a decade, the Coordinator of the UWI-China Institute for Information Technology (UWICIIT) Programme - a cross-campus, exchange degree programme between the University of the West Indies and the Global Institute of Software Technology (GIST) in China, for three years.

Dr. Charlery holds a Bachelor of Science double-major degree in Computer Science and Meteorology, a Master of Philosophy degree in Computer Science and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science, with specialization in simulating atmospheric vortical flow systems. Along with his publications, he has given numerous regional and international lectures and presentations on Climate Change Modeling and the impacts of climate change in the Caribbean region.