During October 19 of 2007 our laboratory participated in the Open House celebrated in the Department of Geology as part of the Earth Week. As in previous years, this activity was organized by the Puerto Rico Seismic Network and it was attended by many high school students and people from our own campus.
During September 28 of 2007 the Center for Hemispherical Cooperation (CoHemis) carried out the fifth national meeting of remote sensing and geographic information systems (PRYSIG 2007). As in previous years, the GERS Lab collaborated with this activity and organized a workshop about hyperspectral image classification using ENVI. It was offered by Fernando Gilbes and around 20…
In order to apply remote sensing to coral reef studies it is necessary to understand the bio-optical variability of the water column. This is the main objective of the most recent work by the GERS Lab in collaboration with Dr. Roy Armstrong, Director of the Bio-Optical Oceanography Laboratory (BIOL) of the UPRM-Department of Marine Sciences.…
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…
The NOAA-CREST program invited Vilmaliz Rodriguez to present a poster in the 4th annual NOAA/NESDIS/StAR/CoRP Symposium, which took place during June 19 & 20 of 2007 at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Her poster summarized results of spatial and temporal analyses of the bio-optical data collected in Mayagüez Bay. It also included her…
Multiple studies have been performed in La Parguera Bioluminescence Bay, but none of them have measured the in situ bio-optical properties until now. As part of Deborah Cedeño Ph.D. dissertation project (a graduate student of the UPRM-Department of Marine Sciences), we used the GERS Lab Bio-Optical Package to measure these properties in the field during…
Yadira Soto and Jose Martinez carried out their undergraduate research in GERS Lab related topics. Yadira in her second research project continued working with the bioluminescence bays of La Parguera and Vieques and produced a Land Use and Land Cover map using a supervised classification of IKONOS images. Yadira’s work is related with our project…
More than 30 scientists from diverse disciplines, including GERS Lab Director and Oceanographer Fernando Gilbes, met during May 8-10 of 2007 in a San Juan’s Hotel to participate in the workshop called “Facing the Consequences of Climate Change in Puerto Rico”. This activity was sponsored by the UPRM Chancellor Office and organized by several UPRM…
The dynamics of cyanobacteria and their role on the optical properties of Mayaguez Bay was the focus of the research performed by Yvette Ludeña Hinojosa, a Peruvian graduate student from the Biology Department and working with Dr. Fernando Gilbes Santaella. Yvette participated in several cruises to the Bay sponsored by NOAA CREST, where she collected…
As part of the NOAA CREST project a different sampling design was performed in Mayaguez Bay to better understand the spatial variability of bio-optical properties. On May 2 of 2007, the bio-optical package was lying down on deck and connected to the water intake of the R/V Sultana. Seawater from the surface flowed continuously through…