HENRY H. SMITH 
University of the Virgin Islands 
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands 00802 
Tel 340-693-1062, hsmith@uvi.edu 
 
 
Education 
 
J.D. 
Law with a concentration in Environmental Law, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 1993. 
 
Ph.D. 
Civil Engineering with specialties in Water Resources Planning and Management and Hydrology, 
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1985. 
 
M.S. 
Civil Engineering with emphasis in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources, University 
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1977. 
 
B. A. 
Marine and Environmental Science, College of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin 
Islands, 1976. 
 
Experience 
 
October 2000 – Present: Vice Provost for Research and Public Service, University of the Virgin Islands, 
St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands. 
 
January 2005 – June 2005: Interim Provost, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin 
Islands. 
 
October 1, 1999 – September 2000: Interim Vice Provost for Research and Public Service, University of 
the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands. 
 
August 1997 – September 1999: Director, Eastern Caribbean Center, University of the Virgin Islands, St. 
Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands. 
 
November 1993 – Present: Director, Water Resources Research Institute, University of the Virgin Islands, 
St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands. 
 
November 1993 – July 1994: Associate Director, Eastern Caribbean Center, University of the Virgin 
Islands, St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands. 
 
April 1987 – August 1990: Director and Associate Professor, International Center for Water Resources 
Management, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio. 
 
Selected Publications 
 
Sritharan, S. and H. H. Smith, 1989, “Drought Management in Surface Irrigation Projects”, in Proceedings 
of International Seminar on Climate Fluctuations and Water Management, Cairo, Egypt. 
 
Smith, H. H., 1996, “A Survey of Products Used in Rain Water Catchment Systems: Products That 
Contact Water Intended for Human Consumption and Their Suitability for Such Usage in the U. S. Virgin 
Islands”, Prepared for Division of Environmental Protection, DPNR, Government of the Virgin Islands. 
 
Smith, H., E. Sello and L. Wrensford,1996, “An Evaluation of Alternative Onsite Sewage Disposal 
Systems in the U. S. Virgin Islands”, Prepared for Division of Coastal Zone Management, DPNR, 
Government of the Virgin Islands. 
 
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Smith, H. H., 1999, “Interactions of Water Production, Use and Conservation”, in Proceedings of the 
Seminar on Integrated Water Resources Management: Institutional and Policy Reform, Port of Spain, 
Trinidad and Tobago. 
 
Smith, H. H. (Editor), 2000, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Virgin Islands Nonpoint Source Pollution 
Conference – A Commitment to Clean Water, V. I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources, St. 
Thomas, USVI.  
Lasalde Clarivel, Roberto Rodriguez, Henry Smith and Gary A. Toranzos, 2005, Heterogeneity of uidA 
gene in environmental Escherichia coli populations, Journal of Water and Health, August (In press). 
Sánchez Elia E., Mayra Suárez, Rebelto Harrigan, Henry Smith, Gary A. Toranzos, 2005, Traditional 
indicators of microbial quality in bathing beaches and their usefulness in the Caribbean.  International 
Microbiology (Submitted). 
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Selected Presentations 
 
 “Application of GIS to Water Quality Management in the Caribbean”, Annual Meeting of the Caribbean 
Water and Wastewater Association, Kingston, Jamaica, 1994. 
 
“Application of Geographic Information Systems for Non-Point Source Pollution Management in the Virgin 
Islands”, Second Annual Virgin Islands Non-point Source Pollution Conference, St. Croix, U. S. Virgin 
Islands, November 1994. 
 
“Rainwater Harvesting for Freshwater Augmentation”, Workshop on Alternative Technologies for 
Freshwater Augmentation in Caribbean Islands, Organization of American States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 
October 1995. 
 
“Onsite Sewage Disposal in the U. S. Virgin Islands”, Third Annual Virgin Islands Non-Point Pollution 
Conference, St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, October 1996. 
 
“Effective Onsite Sewage Disposal of Wastewater Without Adverse Environmental Consequences in the 
United States Virgin Islands”, Eighth Annual CWWA & Fourth AIDIS Region 1 Conference”, Jamaica, 
October 1999. 
 
Rodríguez Eillen, Giovelly Santos, Maria Rivera, Gary A. Toranzos, Henry Smith, June 8, 2005, 
Occurrence of Aeromonas spp. in treated and non-treated waters in Puerto Rico, Poster presentation at 
the 105th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, Atlanta, Georgia.