The Department of Geology of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez celebrated its 25th Annual Symposium of the Caribbean Geology during April 15-18 of 2009 in the Eugene Francis Hall of the Physics Building. As in previous years, this symposium included oral presentations, poster sections, and field trips. However, this year’s activity coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Student Geological Society, which represented a unique opportunity to bring back together the alumni of the Geology Department. The expectations were fulfilled and graduates from different generations participated in the symposium and gave presentations of their current work. The GERS Lab was represented in the poster session by Yadira Soto, Vilmaliz Rodríguez, and Natlee Hernández. All of them presented posters related with their thesis work. Yadira’s poster was titled “Quantifying Shoreline Changes in Puerto Rico using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems”. Vilmaliz’ title was “Remote Sensing of Suspended Sediments in a Tropical Open Bay”. And Natlee’s poster was “Effects of the Suspended Sediments on the Remote Sensing Signal”. Once again the state of the art research made by our laboratory is clearly demonstrated.
