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Sciences in Creole Language 2025

As a result of the concern of researchers, teachers, and trainers from
Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti
to contribute to the use of Creole in science, a virtual conference (web conference) is being organised on
Friday, October 24, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
on the subject of natural risks in the Caribbean and
Climate Change.
This is the third consecutive year that such a conference has been organised
as part of Creole Month


After « Natural Risk Reduction in 2023  », et « Rainwater in the context of climate change » the theme addressed for this new edition is:

Chanjman Klimatik
(Climate Change)

With the participation and sponsorship of:

  • Thierry Césaire, Lecturer at the University of the Antilles, member of the GTSI
  • Emmanuel Gombauld, known as “Manno,” a journalist specializing in Creole

He will be in charge of introducing us to quantum physics and related sciences and technologies. They will also discuss with us the difficulty of translating science into Creole.

We invite you to this webinar on Friday, October 24, 2025, between 9:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. (Saint Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti time),
and thank you for sharing this invitation with as many Creole speakers and those curious about the language as possible.

The organizer

The half-day program

Learn more
The kit press is available on this link
Kit press for Sciences in the Creole Language 2025

How to connect

Zoom link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85760250694?pwd=WnJXre3vaViMG8C8o34OiX2RoV7JwY.1

The connection will be open from 8:45 a.m. (Port-au-Prince time, UTC-4)

ZOOM Link

YouTube Live

In addition to the initial speakers,
MICHEL DEGRAFF, Creole language specialist and Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will honour us with his presence on Friday, October 24, 2025, at the conference “Lasyans an Kréyòl”

Michel is a world-renowned specialist, founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy, and professor at MIT for 28 years, Michel DeGraff will explain how he views the role of Creole in science and how the Creole language is a key element for accessing scientific research and teaching.

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Update from October 10th 2025

Tropical Storm Jerry is moving up the Lesser Antilles arc to within 220 km. It is closer than expected, but its centre is difficult to identify. The strongest winds are to the east and will not cross any landmass. It is expected to become a Class 1 hurricane once north of the arc on Friday, October 10th evening. The greatest risks are heavy rain and swell.
Caution is advised near rivers and the Atlantic coast.

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THE FOCUS – SARGASSUM SPECIAL on Canal 10 TV

On Tuesday, September 9, 2025, Dr. Jean-François Dorville was the guest on (local TV channel) Canal 10’s 7 p.m. Focus on Sargassum following the public meeting of the anti-Sargassum collective held in the Petit-Bourg town hall square on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.
For just over 50 minutes, the Sargassum problem was analysed for Guadeloupe, particularly the health effects of anoxic decomposition gases (fermentation).
The reproduction (propagation), growth, and transport of the algae were discussed, as well as their death in Guadeloupe’s coastal waters and their effects. Solutions were presented, both technical and political.

The video of the program is available on YouTube at the following address. Feel free to share it.


An English translation will be available very soon.

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UDEM Political Back-to-School, September 6, 2025

Dr. Jean-François Dorville during his presentation (photo credit: Philippe Petit)

TCGNRG was invited by Philippe Petit to speak on Saturday, September 6, 2025, about disruptive solutions and evaluation processes for sargassum management during the political back-to-school session of the Union of Democrats and Ecologists of Martinique (UDEM).

Photo of the audience at Paradis des Anges (photo credit: Jean-François Dorville)

In front of just over 50 people, including politicians, supporters, and curious onlookers, Jean-François Dorville presented the need to analyse our current understanding of the sargassum stranding phenomenon and its consequences, to assess the needs for managing the presence of seaweed on the coast, and to adapt solutions. The three-part presentation, spanning 45 minutes, addressed many interrogation from the audience.

Photo of the audience at Paradis des Anges (photo credit: Jean-François Dorville)

The notion of public health was naturally addressed. The event was held at the “Paradis des Anges” guesthouse in the commune of Vauclin in Martinique. The commune of Vauclin has been particularly affected by the stranding of Sargassum. There was also a persistent smell of Hydrogen Sulfide, due to a strip of manatee grass (Syringodium filiforme) and decomposing Sargassum at the entrance to Pointe Faula (see photo).

Photo of a drone view (14,5435°N 60,8302°W, 116 m altitude) of a mix of Sargassum and Manatee Grass tank undergoing anoxic decomposition, causing odours, on Saturday, September 6, on the Vauclin coast.
Photo of a view from the shore of a mix of Sargassum and Manatee Grass tank undergoing anoxic decomposition, causing odours, on Saturday, September 6, on the Vauclin coast.
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Public meeting by the Petit-Bourg anti-sargassum collective on September 3, 2025

Event flyer

After a year 2025 marked by a long period of strandings of holopelagic sargassum, already spanning nearly seven (7) months, the situation on the Guadeloupe coast is complicated.
The solutions implemented (mechanical shovels, sea collection from a barge, and floating barriers to divert or block the algae) appear to be increasingly ineffective and are not adapted to the volumes and frequencies of strandings, nor even to the particularly high sea water temperatures.
Concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) and ammonia (NH₃) have been elevated for more than four months.

Dr. Jean-François was invited to this public conference. He was able to speak for a little over twenty minutes and answer questions from a relatively large audience, for a weekday meeting after 7 p.m. Dr. Dorville focused on the current limitations of dams and methods of reoxygenating water and Sargassum sludge to limit toxic gas emissions and mitigate risks to human health and the integrity of copper products, allowing time to better organize the management of stranded algae.

An attentive and numerous audience for a weekday (Photo credit: JF DORVILLE)
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Update from August 21st2025

Erin continues its path towards the north-east and northern Europe, leaving the Saharan sandbar that protects the Lesser Antilles diminished in places. Two disturbances are likely to cause heavy rain, to the north from Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 between Guadeloupe and the Virgin Islands and to the south over Trinidad and Tobago between Saturday 23 and Sunday 24.

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Update from August 18th 2025

Erin continues its route and will follow the coasts of North America. It is a major hurricane, it evolves continuously and exposes the islands and coasts to swell (8m in places) and coastal flooding (up to 4m high).
The new atmospheric disturbance is worth monitoring.

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Happy New Year 2025

Let’s observe our world and dive into its dimensions to understand better the universe that surrounds us
TCGNRG wishes you a happy new year and accompanies you in the observation and understanding of the tropical world

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Commemorative Days for the 20th anniversary of the Les Saintes earthquake

Twenty years after the Saintes earthquake of November 21, 2024, which left one dead, 13 injured, 40 homeless, and above all a large number of disorders on the islands of Saintes, Basse-Terre, and Marie-Galante, looking back on this major event of the last 100 years is important, especially since these disorders are still visible and still impact essential tourist sites for Guadeloupe, such as access to the Soufrière or the second Carbet waterfall.

Two commemorative days are therefore organized in Terre-de-Haut on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 at the Place des Héros in Terre-de-Haut. These days aim to:

  • reassess the seismic hazard;
  • discuss the assessment of buildings;
  • take stock of crisis management;
  • and provide feedback on both the events of Les Saintes in 2004 and Haiti in 2010.

read more : AFPS website [in French]

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