The students conducting research in the GERS laboratory had their first meeting of the semester during September 11, 2008 in the conference room of the Geology Department. Every student gave a short presentation about the proposed work and listen to comments and suggestions of the other participants. Vilmaliz Rodriguez and Yadira Soto are the current graduate students of Geology conducting their thesis with Fernando Gilbes. Vilmaliz is supported by NOAA-CREST to investigate the “Spatial and Temporal Variations of Suspended Sediments in Mayaguez Bay associated with Landward Soil Erosion Rates”. Yadira is working on “Detecting Shoreline Changes in Puerto Rico Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems”. Ramón Lopez, a Ph.D. student of the Marine Science Department, is also supported by NOAA-CREST for the “Development of the On-Line Database of Mayaguez Bay”. Alexis Cruz in conducting his first undergraduate research entitled “Spectral Effect of Minerals in Sediments of Mayaguez Bay”. And Natlee Hernández performed her both undergraduate research in topics related with the “Suspended Sediments of the Mayaguez Bay”. During this past summer Natlee worked at the USGS and she is now considering graduate studies at UPRM-Geology with Fernando Gilbes as advisor. This group will meet again at the end of the semester to present a progress report of their research.
