Vilmaliz Rodriguez participated in a NOAA CREST site visit activity that took place in March 11, 2009 at the College University of New York. During the poster session she presented part of her work in a poster titled: Remote Sensing of Suspended Sediments in a Tropical Open Bay. She also had the opportunity of visiting…
Yadira Soto was informed in February 9 of 2009 that her application for the CNY-PR Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Fellowship was approved. The Central New York to Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (CNY-PR) AGEP program is seeking to expand the existing programs within each institution to the alliance. The CNY-PR alliance goal…
After more than 20 years of research in Mayagüez Bay, this open bay in the western side of Puerto Rico is moving GERS Lab work toward a better understanding of the dynamics of minerals in the suspended sediments. This was the topic of Alexis Cruz Benitez, an undergraduate student of the Geology Department, whom successfully…
At the end of this fall semester of 2008 four graduate students from the Marine Science Department successfully defended their thesis. Marcos Rosado-Torres (worked in Mayaguez Bay), Deborah Cedeño-Maldonado (worked in La Pargera Bioluminescence Bay), and María Vega-Rodriguez (worked in La Parguera Keys) were supervised by Dr. Roy Armstrong and conducted projects related with ocean…
The students conducting research in the GERS laboratory had their first meeting of the semester during September 11, 2008 in the conference room of the Geology Department. Every student gave a short presentation about the proposed work and listen to comments and suggestions of the other participants. Vilmaliz Rodriguez and Yadira Soto are the current…
This past summer of 2008 Natlee Hernández worked as Remote Sensing Technician during an internship for the Eastern Geographic Science Center Division in Reston, Virginia, at the National Center of the U.S. Geological Survey. Her supervisor was Dr. John Jones, a Researcher Geographer. She worked in the project called “Calibration of 2005 Imagery in South…
Ivelisse Lopez and Natlee Hernandez successfully defended their undergraduate research during May 8, 2008. Ivelisse in her second research project used a Geographic Information System (GIS) to assess the risk of a earthquake in Mayaguez city. She used two equations based on different rationale and created two risk maps that were analyzed. The resulting maps…
As in previous years, students from the GERS Lab presented at the Sigma Xi poster day. The activity took place during April 10, 2008 at UPRM-Chemistry Building and this year two posters were presented by Natlee Hernandez and Vilmaliz Rodriguez. They both presented their work performed in Mayagüez Bay. Natlee’s poster summarized her undergraduate research…
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…
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…