The Bahamas 'desperately needs' coastal engineers

Fri, Dec 24th 2010, 09:00 AM

By NOELLE NICOLLS

Tribune Staff Reporter

nnicolls@tribunemedia.net

WITH no coastal engineers on staff at the Ministry of Works, and the skill in high demand on the private market, Carlos Palacious, was recently graduated into a profession filled with opportunity.

He completed a Master's degree in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering at the University of Florida this past August. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.

As an intern with a Miami based consulting firm, he worked with the design team that laid out "The World" in Dubai, which consists of 300 man-made islands in the shape of the world map.

"As one of the first coastal engineers in the Bahamas, it i ...

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