The XXVIII Symposium of Caribbean Flora and Fauna was focused on technology as a research and management tool for natural resources. This annual symposium was celebrated during April 24 of 2009 in the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao and it was sponsored by the Department of Biology of that campus. Since this year main…
NOAA-CREST research group celebrated an activity to promote the participation of new undergraduate and graduate students in this multidisciplinary project. The NOAA-CREST Day took place in UPRM-Stefanni Building during April 23 of 2009. As part of the agenda different professors and students presented their current research activities and talked about their experience as CREST participant.…
The Department of Geology of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez celebrated its 25th Annual Symposium of the Caribbean Geology during April 15-18 of 2009 in the Eugene Francis Hall of the Physics Building. As in previous years, this symposium included oral presentations, poster sections, and field trips. However, this year’s activity coincided with…
Geographic Mapping Technologies Corp. (GMT) and the Center for Hemispherical Cooperation (CoHemis) organized a technological seminar about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for governmental and academic applications. This activity took place during March 19 of 2009 in the Abbott Room of the Chemistry Building at UPRM and it was divided in two parts. The morning section…
Vilmaliz Rodriguez participated in a NOAA CREST site visit activity that took place in March 11, 2009 at the College University of New York. During the poster session she presented part of her work in a poster titled: Remote Sensing of Suspended Sediments in a Tropical Open Bay. She also had the opportunity of visiting…
Yadira Soto was informed in February 9 of 2009 that her application for the CNY-PR Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Fellowship was approved. The Central New York to Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (CNY-PR) AGEP program is seeking to expand the existing programs within each institution to the alliance. The CNY-PR alliance goal…
After more than 20 years of research in Mayagüez Bay, this open bay in the western side of Puerto Rico is moving GERS Lab work toward a better understanding of the dynamics of minerals in the suspended sediments. This was the topic of Alexis Cruz Benitez, an undergraduate student of the Geology Department, whom successfully…
At the end of this fall semester of 2008 four graduate students from the Marine Science Department successfully defended their thesis. Marcos Rosado-Torres (worked in Mayaguez Bay), Deborah Cedeño-Maldonado (worked in La Pargera Bioluminescence Bay), and María Vega-Rodriguez (worked in La Parguera Keys) were supervised by Dr. Roy Armstrong and conducted projects related with ocean…
The Center for Hemispherical Cooperation in Research and Education in Engineering and Applied Science (CoHemis) celebrated its sixth meeting on Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (PRYSIG, for Spanish) during November 14, 2008. This meeting contained 9 oral presentations and 2 workshops that were attended by people from academia, private sector, and government. One of…
As in previous years the GERS Lab participated in the annual open house of the Earth Science Week that is traditionally organized in the UPRM by the Puerto Rico Seismic Network and the Department of Geology. This year the activity received over 2,000 students from different schools around the island and took place in the…