Dr Leonardo A. Clarke is a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica. He is also a Researcher with the Climate Studies Group, Mona (CSGM). His interest is in the mechanisms that drive present and future climate variability in the Caribbean, in particular the relationship between Caribbean precipitation and sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic and the equatorial Pacific. He will lead a Caribbean research team for the SRMGI-TWAS DECIMALS project.