As a uni­ver­si­ty fo­cused on us­ing re­search for the up­lift­ment of its com­mu­ni­ty, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine (UWI STA), the pre­mier ter­tiary in­sti­tu­tion in the re­gion, pro­duc­ing world-class schol­ars, be­lieves sci­ence should be ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic. We are pleased to present our me­dia se­ries, “UWI Sci­en­tists Speak”. In this se­ries, our sci­en­tists—three of whom re­ceived the na­tion’s high­est ho­n­our, the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, in 2023 and one in 2024—will show­case some of their work.

This week, we hear from Dr Lete­tia Ad­di­son about her trans­for­ma­tive work us­ing da­ta-dri­ven in­sights to build mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary, sus­tain­able mod­els in cli­mate change.

Dr Ad­di­son is an ex­pe­ri­enced ed­u­ca­tor, sta­tis­ti­cian, and re­searcher at the UWI. She spe­cialis­es in math­e­mat­ics and sta­tis­tics ed­u­ca­tion and de­vel­ops pre­dic­tive, da­ta-dri­ven mod­els for cli­mate change sus­tain­abil­i­ty.