Johannes H. Schellekens presented the work entitled “Developing a protocol to use remote sensing as a cost effective tool to monitor contamination of mangrove wetlands” during the Second Annual Symposium for Coastal and Marine Applied Research organized by the UPRM Sea Grant College in October 5, 2005. This new project is sponsored by Sea Grant…
A workshop of Digital Image processing using ENVI was given in September 29 of 2006 as part of the Fourth Meeting of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems of Puerto Rico (PRYSIG 2006) organized by CoHemis. The workshop was given by Fernando Gilbes in the GERS Lab teaching facilities of the Geology Department.
The sixth cruise, denominated CaVortEx-6, of our ONR project took place from August 26 to September 9 of 2006 in waters between Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Nine students and five professors, including Fernando Gilbes, conducted multiple measurements and experiments in order to better understand the role of Caribbean eddies. These eddies affect the salinity and…
In the week of August 21, 2006, a panel review of NOAA came to Puerto Rico to evaluate the UPR Sea Grant Program. As part of the activities a poster section was organized in the Mayaguez Resort that took place on August 22nd. Our Sea Grant supported research was present in a poster entitled “The…
During August 14-16, 2006, the NOAA Conference took place in Virginia where several NOAA CREST researchers attended, including the graduate student Patrick Reyes. This conference was another opportunity to show our efforts in understanding the bio-optical variability of Mayaguez Bay. Patrick presented the poster entitled “Dynamics of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) in Tropical Marine…
During this past summer of 2006 the graduate student, Vilmaliz Rodriguez, participated in an internship work at the Eastern Geographic Science Center of the US Geological Survey, located at Reston, VA. She had the opportunity to work with GIS aspects of three different projects and to present her work at the end of the summer.…
As part of the Arecibo Geoscience Diversity Project, sponsored by the NSF, a group of high school students, teachers and college undergraduates participated in a research experience conducted at the Arecibo Observatory and UPR-Arecibo. Their third Geoscience Congress was held on April 29 of 2006 and Fernando Gilbes offered the lecture entitled “Puerto Rico Desde El…
During April 21 of 2006 we carried out the second sampling of the dry season in the Mayaguez Bay. The same 8 stations visited in March 2006 were sampled and similar field activities took place. NOAA-CREST supported student, Patrick Reyes, collected more data for his doctoral dissertation. Also, the doctoral student from the Department of Marine Sciences, Ramon…
A large coral bleaching event has been documented around the world, including in the Caribbean Sea. On April 20 of 2006, Fernando Gilbes and Roy Armstrong visited Los Pinaculos coral reef in La Parguera to collect underwater reflectance measurements of the corals at different stages of bleaching using the GER-1500. This effort, which is part of the…
Every month the graduate students of the Climate project funded by NASA-EPSCoR get together and discuss their research activities. As part of this initiative they also invite active researchers to offer seminars. In April 19, 2006, Fernando Gilbes was invited to this meeting and talked about his research in Mayaguez Bay. This provided the opportunity to the students…