During August 18 and 19 of 2009 Vilmaliz Rodríguez visited College University of New York to participate in the Sixth Annual NOAA/NESDIS/STAR CoRP Symposium. This event was focused on presenting new approaches and methods to maximize the retrieving of information from remote sensing data. Presentations consisted in thirty orals and thirty three posters of several Universities with participants programs. Vilmaliz, who is sponsored by NOAA–CREST presented part of her thesis work in a poster titled: Estimating Total Suspended Sediments in Tropical Open Bay Conditions using MODIS. This poster was awarded with a third place.
