The graduate student Yadira Soto Viruet participated in a summer internship with the US Geological Survey in Reston, VA. She worked for the Minerals Information Team (MIT) that annually reports on the minerals facilities of more than 180 countries. MIT collects and analyze information on mineral facilities showing the production of metals, industrial minerals and…
The Center for Hemispherical Cooperation in Research and Education in Engineering and Applied Science (CoHemis) celebrated its fourth consecutive summer camp during July 13-19 of 2009. This year main topic was “Teaching Actively and Learning as a Team” and incorporated for the first time a workshop of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). This…
As in the last summer (2008), the graduate student Natlee Hernandez worked as part of the Eastern Geographic Science Center under the supervision of Dr. John Jones, a geographer of the U.S. Geological Survey. This was her second internship at the USGS and she worked as physical science tech. The project was about the fire…