Prof. Tannecia Stephenson

Prof. Tannecia Stephenson is co-Director of the Climate Studies Group, Mona and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Science and Technology at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. Her research interests are Caribbean climate variability and change, climate extremes and statistical modelling.  She has published over 80 journal articles, book chapters, monographs and technical reports with collaborators.  Her work experience includes conducting research as a visiting fellow at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. 

Prof. Stephenson has served on a number of international teams including the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) Science Advisory Team (CORDEX-SAT) and the Task Team on Guide to Climatological Practices (TT-GCP) of the World Meteorological Organization.  She was also a lead author on Chapter 10 "Linking global to regional climate change" and a contributing author on Chapter 12 "Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment and on the Atlas Chapter for the Working Group 1 Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.