Dennis Corales performed the last trip as Captain of the R/V Sultana to Mayaguez Bay
 On December 6, 2005 and after more than 30 years of dedicated work Dennis Corales carried out his last official trip as Captain. It has been a great honor to work with him during the past 15 years and we will miss him. The contribution of Captain Corales to the marine sciences, especially in Mayaguez Bay, has been enormous. Thank you for all your help!
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New technology is applied to study the Orinoco River Plume
 A new undulating underwater vehicle called "Dolphin" has been developed by NASA-SSC and Wet Labs to provided unique oceanographic and bio-optical data of the water column. Dolphin was used during the recent Oripex-7 cruise to the Orinoco River Plume. This multidisciplinary effort was carried out onboard the R/V Pelican during November 12-30, 2005. A group of scientists, including Fernando Gilbes from GERS Lab, was part of this historical campaign.
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GERS Lab joined the Earth Week Activities at UPRM
During October 11 of 2004 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.
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Lecture is given at the AIDIS Seminar in San Juan, P.R.
 On September 30 of 2005, Fernando Gilbes gave the lecture "Puerto Rico Desde El Espacio:Deteccion Remota en el Campo Ambiental" at the Seminar "Tecnologia Ambiental de Vanguardia" organized by the Asociacion Interamericana de Ingenieria Sanitaria y Ciencias del Ambiente-Capitulo de Puerto Rico (AIDIS-Puerto Rico). The seminar took place in the Holiday Inn Hotel of Isla Verde and was attended by over 200 people.
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Research in Bioluminescence Bay of Vieques is presented in the 1rs SeaGrant Symposium
 The results of the project titled Contaminant and Erosion Control Baseline Database for the Puerto Mosquito Watershed in Vieques, Puerto Rico, was presented by Fernando Gilbes during the first Seagrant symposium. This was held in the Nursing Amphitheater at UPRM during September 2, 2005.
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TCESS and CenSSIS projects are presented at the 17th Caribbean Geological Conference in San Juan, P.R.
 Fernando Gilbes attended this conference during July 19-21, 2005. He gave an oral presentation based of Gretchen Chiques' thesis work which is supported by NASA-TCESS. In the same conference Jeannette Arce's thesis work, supported by NSF-CenSSIS, was presented in a poster.
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Graduate students successfully defended their master theses during this summer
 After three years of studies in the Geology Department Gretchen Chiques and Jeannette Arce defended their thesis during July 14 and 15 of 2005, respectively. The title of Gretchen's work was "Spectral Characterization of Sandy Beaches in Western Puerto Rico. Jeannette's work was titled "Remote Sensing of Benthic Habitats in Southwestern Puerto Rico".
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Seminar is given to high school students as part of the Summer Transportation Camp
 During June 21 of 2005 Fernando Gilbes was invited to give the seminar entitled "Tecnologia en la Oceanografia" to the students participating in this year summer camp of Transportation. The opportunity exposed the students to the most recent technology available to study the ocean.
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Workshop using ENVI is carried out at the GERS Lab during the 3rd National PRYSIG Meeting
 During June 14, 2005 the Center for Hemispherical Cooperation (CoHemis) carried out the third national meeting of remote sensing and geographic information systems. As in previous years, the GERS Lab collaborated with this activity and organized a workshop about image classification using ENVI. It was offered by Fernando Gilbes and around 20 people participated and learned the basics.
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Fernando Gilbes presents in symposium of GIS applied to ecology and conservation
 The University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras carried out during May 28, 2005, the first GIS symposium called "Uso de Sistemas de Informacion Geograficos en Ecologia Aplicada y Conservacion". As part of the agenda Fernando Gilbes was invited to talk about "CoHemis como facilitador del desarrollo de Sistemas de Informacion Geografica."
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Graduate students present their theses research in conference at Canada
 Jeannette Arce and Gretchen Chiques submitted papers related with their master thesis to the 8th International Conference of Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments that was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during May 17-19 of 2005. Both works were accepted and published in the proceedings of the conference. Jeannette Arce also presented a poster during the conference.
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Anticyclonic eddy is studied during the CaVortEx IV cruise onboard the R/V Pelican
 As part of the research project sponsored by the Office of Naval Research a group of investigators, including Fernando Gilbes from GERS Lab, went to Caribbean waters between Puerto Rico and Jamaica during March 12 to 25 of 2005. A large numbers of parameters were measured with state-of-the-art equipment, which will allow to better understand the dynamics of eddies in the ocean.
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Interdisiplinary research begins with the support of the Research and Development Center of UPRM
 The first sampling of a new project in Mayaguez Bay was performed onboard the R/V Pez Mar during March 10 of 2005. This work is part of the research by the doctoral student of Marine Sciences Patrick Reyes and the master student of Biology Yvette Ludeña. They are studying the dynamics of CDOM and cyanobacteria, respectively. This research is also funded by NOAA-CREST.
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Lecture about remote sensing of the ocean was given to over 100 educators at UPRM
 On February 19 of 2005 a workshop for professional improvement of educators was carried out at UPRM and sponsored by Division de Extension, Eta Gamma Delta, and Asociacion Civico Cultural de Mujeres de Mayaguez. It was focused on marine aspects and the talks were given by Monica Alfaro, Jorge Capella, Ruperto Chaparro, and Fernando Gilbes. This last offered the talk entitled "El Oceano Desde El Espacio".
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Calibrated AVIRIS data from the first overflight over Puerto Rico is released to GERS Lab for processing and analysis
 Several researchers, including Fernando Gilbes, that participated in the first AVIRIS mission met in RSMAS, Miami, during January 21-24 of 2005. In that meeting the radiometric calibrated images collected over Puerto Rico were provided to our group. Further processing and analyses were also discussed.
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