Member profile
Dr. Annette Arjoon-Martins
Board of Directors
Biography
Marine ecologist at University of the West Indies. Authority on blue carbon and coral reef economics, engaged in Caribbean marine conservation programmes.
Research areas
Related projects
Institute research topics aligned with the broad areas identified in this biography; these are not confirmed personal project assignments.
Sustainable Island Tourism AI
- Demand forecasting & revenue management
- Fuse flights, cruise schedules, storms and search trends for island-level forecasts and dynamic pricing; open API for CHTA.
- Multilingual AI island concierge
- Conversational guide in EN/ZH/ES/FR/NL that promotes local dive shops, eateries and heritage experiences.
- Beach carrying-capacity monitoring
- Anonymous crowd sensing at beaches and cruise ports with real-time rerouting to protect reefs.
- Blue Tourism coral-reef valuation
- Satellite reef-health detection linked to tourism value, supporting blue-carbon and climate-fund applications.
- Cruise shore-excursion orchestration
- Coordinate landings, transfers and bookings so spending flows to local communities.
- Low-carbon resort operations
- AI control of HVAC, desalination and solar-storage to cut energy and water use for ESG certification.
- Hurricane resilience & recovery
- Asset damage simulation, recovery forecasting and automated insurance claim packages.
- Caribbean cultural IP & marketing engine
- Compliant, multilingual destination content tailored to North American, European and Asian markets.