Dr. Fernando Gilbes Santaella was invited to chair a technical session about the application of remote sensing in marine ecosystems studies during the 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment. This symposium took place in San José, Costa Rica, on June 25-29 of 2007 and over 500 people from around the World attended it. The marine technical session chaired by Dr. Gilbes was focused on coral reefs and algal bloom monitoring. Five oral talks were presented and three of those were related with research work made in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). The first talk was given by Damaris Torres Pullitza, a former graduate student of the UPRM-Department of Geology. Another lecturer in this session was Dr. Liane Guild from NASA Ames Research Center and she presented the collaborative work between NASA and UPRM involved field activities for sensor validation that were made in Puerto Rico by Dr. Guild, Dr. Roy Armstrong from the UPRM-Department of Marine Sciences, and Dr. Gilbes. The last presentation of the session was offered by Dr. Miguel Vélez Reyes, a professor in the UPRM-Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering. His talk covered part of Dr. Vélez’s work in the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS). All these presentations reflect the large active research taking place at UPRM in environmental remote sensing.
