As in previous years, an undergraduate student from the GERS Lab presented at the Sigma Xi poster day. The activity took place during April 26, 2007 at UPRM-Chemistry Building and this year’s poster was prepared by Yadira Soto. She presented the work performed during last semester for her undergraduate research topic and the poster was…
The Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) held its two-day,Year Seven National Science Foundation Site Visit on April 19-20, 2007 in Boston, MA. During this activity our graduate student Carmen Zayas-Santiago, from the Department of Marine Sciences, presented the poster titled “Spectral Libraries of Submerged Biotopes for Benthic Mapping in…
The Meteorological Society of Puerto Rico (MSPR), which is a Local Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) promotes weather education and shares knowledge of atmospheric and related sciences to the general community in Puerto Rico. As part of these efforts they celebrated the Weather Festival at the Rafael A. Mangual Coliseum of the University…
Fernando Gilbes was the invited speaker during this year Undergraduate Research Symposium in the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla. As researcher from the Geology Department and CoHemis Director he offered the lecture titled “Globalizacion en la Investigacion y Educacion Subgraduada: CoHemis como ejemplo del impacto de este proceso en UPRM”. The lecture given on…
During February 4-9 of 2007 Carmen Zayas, a graduate student from Marine Sciences and sponsored by CenSSIS, attended the ASLO 2007 Aquatic Sciences Meeting to present the poster entitled “Mapping Benthic Communities In Southwestern Puerto Rico Using IKONOS”. Other authors of this CenSSIS work were Fernando Gilbes, Roy Armstrong, and Marti Lopez. This meeting took…
Belyneth Deliz, Almaris Martinez, and Augustine Roman (all undergraduate students) carried out leave reflectance measurements in the field as part of our Sea Grant project. They also collected leave and sediment samples for metal analyses in the Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS) laboratory of Dr. Arturo Massol, in the Biology Department at UPRM.
Mercury (Hg), Lead (Pb), Iron (Fe), Copper (Cu), and Arsenic (As) were measured in Puerto Mosquito (Vieques) and La Parguera (Lajas) bays. These are the two most well-known bioluminescence bays of Puerto Rico. The samplings were carried out by Yadira Soto and William Hernandez as part of the research activities in a project sponsored by…
The Puerto Rico-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (PR-LSAMP) program invited Fernando Gilbes to give a workshop about the scientific method. It took place in the Auditorium of Civil Engineering during October 24 of 2006 and several UPRM students from science and engineering attended.
As part of the course “Jumping into the Sea”, Fernando Gilbes gave two lectures in the Southwestern Educational Society (SESO) School during October 19 and 24 of 2006. One was called Technology in Oceanography and the other was Ocean from Space.
During October 9-13 of 2006 Fernando Gilbes attended the Ocean Optics XVIII Conference to present the poster entitled “CenSSIS SeaBed: Diverse approaches for imaging shallow and deep coral reefs”. Other authors of this CenSSIS work were Roy Armstrong, James Goodman, Miguel Velez, and Shawn Hunt. The conference took place in Montreal.