During fall 2023 a group of 20 students completed the course Images of the Earth (Geol 3105). As always, the students were from different disciplines and diverse backgrounds. Some of them took the course to complete the requirements of the meteorology certification. Others were just completing the science requirements and few were enrolled for their…
Nine students from various departments took the advance remote sensing course (Geol 6225) in Spring 2023. As part of this academic experience, they had to design, propose, and develop a research project that must include image processing with the software ENVI. At the end of the semester all the projects were orally presented, and written…
Hurricane Maria produced many landslides on the river basins of Puerto Rico that increased the discharge of suspended sediments in coastal areas. However, spatial and temporal variations of these processes are not well understood. An undergraduate research by Yesenia M. Rivera-Lopez evaluated this topic for Arecibo and Añasco rivers and the results were presented to…
An undergraduate study conducted by Idamis Rodriguez Nazario evaluated the impact of Hurricane María on the concentration of total suspended matter (TSM). A significant increase was measured using the Ocean and Land Color Instrument (OLCI) onboard the Sentinel-3 satellite. High river discharge was responsible for large amounts of TSM in coastal waters. The results of…
The Puerto Rico Seismic Network in collaboration with the Geology Department carried out the annual open house in celebration of the Earth Science Week. This activity took place for the first time in the recent constructed facilities closed to the tennis courts of the URPM during October 22 of 2010. As in previous years multiple…
During September of 2010 the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus, hosted the exhibition called “THE EARTH: A HUMAN HABITAT”. This activity presented the exceptional features of our planet using multiple posters and five lectures. This exhibition has traveled the World and it was prepared by EURESIS (Association to Promote the Scientific Culture and…
It was the third summer internship of the graduate student Natlee M. Hernandez-Guevara with the U.S. Geological Survey, but this year 2010 was as SCEP (Student Career Experience Program). As in previous summers, she was part of the Eastern Geographic Science Center, working under the supervision of Dr. John W. Jones, a geographer of the…
Andrey Koch is a researcher from the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) at the Oregon State University working with ocean circulation models in coastal areas. He is original from Russia and has particular interests for learning the research in other regions. Such motivation moved Andrey to request NOAA funding to come to Puerto…
Magueyes Island, the field station of the Marine Science Department, was the venue of the NASA’s OSSCEE Workshop entitled Remote Sensing: Educational Tool to Understand Land and Marine Processes. This workshop took place during June 13 – 17, 2010 and was sponsored by the NASA project “Our Star the Sun Center for Educational Excellence”. It…
Changing the weather enterprise by comprehensively and sustainably integrating social science into meteorological research and practice is the vision of an innovative workshop that took place for the first time in the Caribbean region. The Weather And Society Integrated Studies (WASIS) workshop was held in the Caribe Hilton Hotel of Puerto Rico during June 6-11…