Stevie Henry  
UVI-CDC Data Manager  
University of the Virgin Islands 
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands 00802 
Tel 340-693-1033, shenry@uvi.edu 
 
 
Stevie Henry has served as the Data Manager for the University of the Virgin Islands 
Conservation Data Center since 1997.  His primary functions are to complete the formulation of a 
Geographic Information System and Biological Conservation Database (BCD) for the United 
States Virgin Islands, to maintain and update the GIS and BCD, and to provide GIS and BCD 
products to clients of the CDC.  He is a graduate of the University of the Virgin Islands' Social 
Sciences Division and holds a Master of Community and Regional Planning from the University of 
New Mexico. 
Stevie has successfully completed ArcView® training from the Environmental Systems Research 
Institute (ESRI) -- the manufacturer of ArcView®, and has been an authorized ESRI ArcView® 
instructor since 1999. 
As a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Fellow he worked with the City of Albuquerque’s 
Planning Department as a planning assistant for two years. From 1992-1997 he was a senior 
planner with the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Division of 
Comprehensive and Coastal Zone Planning.  During his tenure at DPNR, he developed the 
automation of zoning amendments, subdivision and other planning records for the district of St. 
Croix.  Stevie also wrote the legislative amendments to the Casino and Resort Control Act of 
1995, clarifying the land use provisions of that law. 
He has been involved with several major GIS projects in the U.S. Virgin Islands.  In 2001, he was 
the project manager for the first edition of the U.S. Virgin Islands Vegetation and Marine 
Community maps.  In 2002, he participated in NOAA’s Benthic Habitat Mapping for Puerto Rico 
and U.S. Virgin Islands.  He also managed the development of the first edition of the Virgin 
Islands Comprehensive Land and Water Use Plan Zoning and Intensity District maps.