Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
PhD Theses (1983-present)
| Candidate | (Year of Award) | “Thesis Title.” | (Supervisor) |
| Anne Hickey | (1983) | “The Reproductive and Fishery Biology of Tripneustes ventricosus Lamark.” | (E. Moore) |
| Angela Fields | (1984) | “Aspects of the Biology of Ibrachidontes modiolus Linne in Barbados.” | (E. Moore) |
| Julia Horrocks | (1985) | “Aspects of the Behavioural Ecology of Cercepithecus aethiops in Barbados.” | (W. Hunte) |
| Jeffrey Jones | (1985) | “Aspects of the Population Interaction of Plutella xylostella (L.) Lepidoptera: Plutellidae. and Apanteles plutellae (Kurdj.) Hymenoptera: Braconidae.” | (L.Chinnery) |
| Hazel Oxenford | (1985) | “Biology and Fishery of the Dolphin Coryphaena hippurus in Barbados.” | (W. Hunte) |
| Dorothy Cooke-Johnson | (1986) | “A Retrospective Study (1976-1980) of the Incidence and Mortality of Cancer of the Breast, Prostate, Cervix, Stomach and Lung in Barbados.” | (G. Mathison) |
| Leonard O’Garro | (1986) | “Genetical Studies of Tomato Wilt Isolates of Verticillium dahliae.” | (G. Mathison) |
| Marie-Louise Felix | (1991) | “A Survey of the Shrimp Species of Barbados Island Waters and Collection of Potential Cultivars.” | (E. Moore) |
| Litta Paul-Raj | (1991) | “Epidemiology of Onion Blight in Barbados.” | (L. O’Garro) |
| Sandra Bellamy | (1993) | “Leaf Demography, Bud Germination, Establishment and Root Growth of Sugarcane.” | (L. Chinnery) |
| Susan Persad-Chinnery | (1994) | “Genetical Studies of Vesicular-Arbuscular (VA) Mycorrhizal Symbioses.” | (R. Dales) |
| Lyndon Waterman | (1994) | “Sequence Analysis of Ribsomal DNA Amplification Products and Investigations on Protoplast Isolation from Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrihzal Fungi of the Genus Gigaspora.” | (R. Dales) |
| Collis Barrow | (1995) | “Tamarind Xyloglucan - A Study of Hypocotyl Growth and Seed Germination.” | (S. Carrington) |
| Samuel Miller | (1996) | “Characterization of Secondary Metabolites from Quassia multiflora and Marine Organisms.” | (W. Tinto) |
| Desmond Worrell | (1996) | “A Study of Fruit Development and Postharvest Storage of Breadfruit Grown in Barbados.” | (S. Carrington) |
| Charmaine Gomes | (1997) | “Molecular Genetic Analyses of the Four-wing Flying-fish (Hirundichthys affinis), in the Central Western Atlantic and their Implications for Fisheries Management.” | (R. Dales, H. Oxenford) |
| Sonia Peters | (1997) | “The Characterization of Cassane Diterpenes of Caesalpinia bonducella Flem. (Caesalpiniaceae).” | (W. Tinto) |
| Harold Gibbs | (1998) | “Barbadian Soils: Chemical Composition, Themo-Properties, and Influence on Plant Crop Diseases and their Inciting Agents.” | (L. O’Garro, A. Newton) |
| Colin Depradine | (1999) | "A Software Tool for the Reuse of Object-Oriented Classes" | (B. Patrick) |
| Angela Alleyne | (2000) | “Characterization of Yam Anthracnose Phytotoxins and Population Genetics of Colletotrichum gloeosporiodes.” | (L. O’Garro) |
| Michael Matthias | (2000) | “The Molecular Characterisation of Pathogenic Leptospira from Animals on the Island of Barbados.” | (G. Mathison, P. Levett) |
| John Charlery | (2001) | “Visualizing Atmospheric Vortical Flow Using Line Integral Convolution Techniques.” | (H. Peter) |
| Kelly Marshall | (2001) | “A Chemotaxonomical Investigation of Marine Octocorals of the Genus Eunicea.” | (W. Tinto) |
| Joanne Simmons-Boyce | (2001) | “Characterization of Secondary Metabolites from Barbadian Ornamental and Wild Plants.” | (W. Tinto) |
| Dionne Boalino | (2002) | “Characterisation of the Secondary Metabolites of the Lamiaceae Family: Hyptis, Leonotis and Leonurus.” | (W. Tinto) |
| Graeme Corbin | (2002) | “A Chemical Investigation of the Plants Brypohyllum pinnatum (Crassulaceae), Calophyllum calaba (Guttiferae) and Lantana camara (Verbenaceae)”. | (W. Tinto) |
| Leah Garner-O’Neale | (2002} | “A Revised Lewis-Langmuir Equation: A Quick Calculation of Atomic Charges and some Applications.” | (T. Meek) |
| Indrawatee Haraksingh | (2002) | “Natural Convection Flat Plat Collector Solar Cooker With Short Term Storage.” | (O. Headley, L. Moseley) |
| Sophia Marshall | (2002) | “The Kinetics and Mechanisms of Decomposition of Several Brochodilators, S-Nitrosothiols by a Bronchoconstrictor, Aqueous Sulphite.” | (A. Newton) |
| Kelly Marville | (2002) | “Chemotaxonomical Investigation of Marine Octocorals of the Genus Eunicea.” | (W. Tinto) |
| Carlos Hunte | (2003 | ) “Optical Activity and Dynamic Light Scattering in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals.” | (U. Singh) |
| Janil Gore | (2004) | “Prospects for Genetic and Chemical Control of Bacterial Spot in Barbados.” | (L. O’Garro) |
| Deon Lyder | (2004) | “The Characterization of Tetranortriterpenoids (Limonoids) of Swietenia mahogoni (Meliaceae).” | (W. Tinto) |
| Joy Roach | (2004) | “Isolation and Characterization of Secondary Metabolites from the Genus Caesalpinia (Caesalpiniaceae).” | (W. Tinto) |
| Suzanne Workman | (2004) | “Epidemiology of human Campylobacter-associated gastroenteritis in Barbados: identification of likely sources of infection.” | (M. Lavoie) |
| Thomas Edward | (2006) | “Algorithms for Mutual Exclusion in Decentralized Systems.” | (P. Chaudhuri) |
| Sumeiya Grosvenor | (2006) | “A Chemical Investigation of Ficus microcarpa, Sapium hippomane and Simarouba amara.” | (W. Tinto) |
| Tanya Layne | (2006) | “Three Terrestrial Organisms: Callyspongia vaginalis, Aspidosperma excelsum, Cleome viscosa and Clerodendrum chinense,” | (W. Tinto) |
| Janelle Scott | (2006) | “The Characterization of Secondary Metabolites from Albizia lebbeck (Leguminosae).” | (W. Tinto) |
| Beverley Wood | (2006) | An assessment of Barbados’ groundwater for contamination by Atrazine and its major dealkylated metabolites, Ph.D., Thesis | (R. Brathwaite) |
| Linroy Christian | (2007) | Techniques for the identification and enumeration of the Bacteroides and their suitability as Indicators of Faecal Contamination of the Marine Environment. Ph.D., Thesis, | (G.E. Mathison & M. Lavoie). |
| Hussein Thompson | (2007) | Self-stabilizing Algorithms for Some Problems on Trees and Graphs, Ph.D. | (P. Chaudhuri). |
| Sharon Wyatt | (2007) | Assessing the Impact of Selection for High Sucrose on Molecular Diversity in Sugarcane. Ph.D., Thesis | (L. Waterman & A. Kennedy). |