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…
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.
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.
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…
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…