Neil Oculi

University of Portland

Neil Oculi is an interdisciplinary political geographer. He received his Ph.D. in geography and M.A. in international studies from the University of Connecticut. He also holds a B.A. in human ecology from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and studied farm management and rural development at the United World College in Venezuela. Neil has taught courses in geography, globalization, and global environmental politics at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include the vulnerability of small island development state (SIDS), foreign policy analysis, international climate change policy, modeling of sea-level rise within SIDS, and hydro and hydraulic modeling of flood events within SIDS. His research adventures have taken him to Venezuela, Mexico, Tanzania, and the Caribbean, his home region.

Presentation(s):

• Application of soft computing techniques and Arc-GIS in a holistic sense for the development of future rainfall maps: case study the island of St Lucia

  Tuesday, May 23, 2023
  1:00 PM – 1:15 PM PDT

• Evaluating Rainfall and Temperature Trends in the Small Island Developing State of Saint Lucia Using Nonparametric Statistics and Soft Computing

  Tuesday, May 23, 2023
  3:15 PM – 3:30 PM PDT