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Meet the Clearing-House
Mechanism Team
"Together we make it
happen."
Tracy Commock, Director of Natural History
Division - Botanist
Tracy
Commock is a botanist by training having completed a Bachelor’s
degree in Botany at the University of the West Indies (Mona) and
an M.Phil. in Botanical Diversity from the Universities of
Reading and Birmingham in the UK. While in the UK she had the
opportunity to utilize the facilities and research the
collections in herbaria at the Natural History Museum in London
and the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.
An Executive
Member of the Natural History Society of Jamaica and a recipient
of the Millenium Scholarship for Environmental Studies from the
Environmental Foundation Of Jamaica, Mrs. Tracy Commock
continues to encourage the preservation of biological diversity,
especially plants, and to promote the nations need for capacity
building in the field of taxonomy.
Tracy has
attended and represented Jamaica at several science related
conferences and visited several countries including Brazil, St.
Lucia, Thailand, Lebanon and Spain.
As Director of
the NHD, Mrs. Tracy Commock is responsible for ensuring the
efficient management of the national collections of plants and
animals and researching, documenting and disseminating
information on biodiversity. She has also been employed as a
botanist IOJ and
plans to pursue further studies on the genus Phyllanthus
in the Euphorbiaceae.
Contact Info:
Natural History Division
Institute of Jamaica
10-16 East Street
Kingston
Tel: (876)922-0620-6
Fax: (876)922-1147
nhd@instituteofjamaica.org.jm
Natural History Division
Institute of Jamaica
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