My name is Adele Young, I am from Trinidad and Spago and I just completed my MSC in Water Science and Engineering with a specialization in hydraulic engineering and nervous business development. I actually heard of IAG some time ago, I really wanted to specialize in my field and I knew they were specialized in water studies. So online I would have seen the type of programs they had but unfortunately I would not have been able to apply because I don't have resources or the money to come to the institute. And I thought maybe I could do a short course. I went back to the website and I looked at the short courses and during that experience I realised that there was the scholarship and I thought okay this is a perfect opportunity to actually go there and do what I wanted to do for such a long time. So within a one month period I actually applied and I submitted my application and I was successful. At the time that I applied to do this course I was working in a consultancy back home and many of my projects were based on learning, development, looking at water regularisation and in particular we looked at infrastructure design. I saw that there was really a need to go into multi-zillion development aspects of that. For example looking at flood arrest assessments, looking at drainage design which is one of the reasons why I went and I chose this topic of hydraulic engineering and nervous business development and especially in the Caribbean where more and more we've seen that there's a lack of preparedness and resilience towards our extreme events. I think this field has studied really open subalong opportunities and can really bring back much needed skill to the Caribbean. Well what can I bring to this field? It's not necessarily about coming off with something as I said, groundbreaking but rather using what is already existing to come up with something that is new. I think while I've been here I've been exposed to so many different things and you're knowing it's not only from a technical point of view but you have so many other aspects to consider whether it's social or environmental work. Really just adapt to your surroundings and I can get an example of that really is I think crowdsourcing of data which has existed for so many years. In terms of floods or disasters people are always taking pictures of the impacts of floods but now they're realizing you can actually use this data towards like validating and calorising models so you can actually adapt to it. Adapt what you already have and evolve into something new and improve it. Most of my experiences have been in the Caribbean so I can't speak about other countries or even other cities or other countries but I think personally there's a gap between research and industry. For example you have people doing research, you have people in the industry doing their jobs but there's no interlinkage, there's no transfer of skills in that respect and being here I've really been exposed to a strong research, based on strong knowledge, based and I think that really needs to be developed so how I would like to implement these skills is really bridging that gap using what technology or ideas and approaches have been successful in other countries and trying to translate it into a really just dumb skillet to a Caribbean perspective. So I always tell people if you want to hear God laugh, you tell them you're planned because everything is just really so unpredictable, you just don't know what will happen but from a professional point of view I think after the COP23 in Bourne last year which was hosted by Fiji I think there's a lot of much needed impact and focus that's been put on certain and with the most recent disasters in the eastern Caribbean I think there's a lot more focus on the Caribbean islands and with the future I really hope to just be a part of that momentum and contribute and whatever way that I can. Thank you.