During the past year ACEER (Alianza Ciudadana para la Educación en Energía Renovable) has organized conferences of renewable energy in the Cultural Center of the Mayaguez City. The main purpose of these conferences is to provide the most current information about this topic to the general public in order to help our island moving toward…
Ocean color of Mayaguez Bay has been part of the research efforts made by the GERS Lab since its foundation. In most recent years the work has focused on testing and validating the MODIS sensor. The results of such work were presented during this year NOAA-CREST Symposium that was held in the University of Puerto…
William Hernandez presented the new GERS Lab Database, called GERSVIEW, during the fifth conference of ESRI Users in Puerto Rico. This activity took place in Caguas during December 11 of 2007 and it was organized by Geographic Mapping Technologies Corp (GMT). William’s presentation along with those given by the Caguas Municipality and the Regulations and…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…