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CHARLOTTE AMALIE

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COLLEGE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, CARIBBEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ST. THOMAS, V.1. 00801



VOLUME II, NUMBER 2 JUNE 1978



Ecological Research Center



Part of a ten-paper series, "Organisms of Econom-

ic Potential," has been completed by Dr. Michael



a ; Canoy, director of the Ecological Research Center

(ERC). The paper, dealing with the ascetes shrimp, is based on a presen-

tation made by Dr. Canoy in San Jose, Costa Rica at an international

meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The

ascetes shrimp is an important high-protein food source in .he Orient.

Since vast numbers of these small shrimp may well exist in the Caribbean,

harvesting and marketing them is an exciting economic possibility. The

paper will be published at a later date.



A team of researchers and technicians, headed by

Dr. Michael Canoy and assisted by Eric Klos of the

University of Rhode Island, is in the midst of a

three-month study for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deter-

mine the effects of pollution from a rum distillery on the waters sur-—

rounding St. Croix. $120,000 was appropriated by the EPA for this "Rum

Effluency Study." The technicians working on it are all CVI students.



An Painter of Raleigh, North Carolina, has been

appointed coordinator of the Energy Extension



‘ Service Project being undertaken by CRI through

the ERC. The energy study team will work with consumers, architects,

engineers, small businesses, the Community Action Agency, 4-H, the hotel

industry, the Agriculture Extension Service and the V.I. Energy Office

to identify priority areas for community outreach programs. At present,

an Energy Information Room is taking shape at CRI. It will serve as a

learning as well as a reference center and will be available to anyone

.interested in energy, its conservation and development of alternate

energy source technology.



Outreach Activities



RESEARCH LIBRARY In recent months, the Institute has been organ-

IS TAKING SHAPE izing a special library with emphasis on its



: research concerns. At the end of June, through

the cooperation of the government of the British Virgin Islands, Verna

Penn, A.L.A., chief librarian, served as a short-term consultant for

the project. As a result of her efforts, the library is in the midst

of completion. A student aide provided by the Comprehensive Employment

Training Act (CETA) will continue work on the project in the fall.



FIRST WORKING _ The proceedings of a seminar on "Forecasting in

PAPER AVAILABLE Microstate Economies," edited by Dr. S.B. Jones-



: Hendrickson, were published in April as a Working

Paper. The Working Paper Series at CVI is geared to disseminating prog-

ress in research at CRI to the public. This first Working Paper has five

contributing authors: Compton Bourne, S.B. Jones-Hendrickson, Malcolm

Kirwan, Jerome McElroy and Frank Mills.



Dr. Norwell Harrigan was the keynote speaker at



D Commencement Exercises of Eudora Kean High School

= ie * on June 4. His message to the St. Thomas graduates



stressed the importance of the preparation they must make in order to



assume the responsibility that will fall to them, as new adult citizens,



with the granting of the new Virgin Islands Constitution.



On June 28 in Tortola, Dr. Harrigan addressed a convocation o£ the Brit-

ish Virgin Islands Civil Service Association, of which he was co-founder,

on the subject "Whither Virgin Islands?" Honorable Willard Wheatley, MBE,

chief minister of the islands, attended and contributed to the discussion

following the speech. A local newspaper described the well-attended ses-

sion as "...creating lively and interesting discussion which had to be

cut off, as it was long after the time it was scheduled to have ended."



BIBLIOGRAP Recently published for the Institute by the Center

IS PUBLISHED for Latin American Studies, University of Florida

= and University Presses of Florida at Gainesville

is a 209-page book, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTICLES ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES

AND THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1867-1975.

The volume is authored by Arnold Highfield, Assistant Professor of the

Social Sciences and Linguistics at the St. Croix Campus of CVI, in col-

laboration with Max Bumgarner. Notification to the public will be made

concerning its availability when word is received from the publishers.



A meeting of the Caribbean Fishery Management

Council in St. Croix on April 19-21 was attended

, by the CRI director. He serves as Vice-chairman

of the Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee.



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