Presentation of Summer Research Results

Recently, the UPRM Catibbean Clinmte Studies group, composed of 15 graduate and undergraduate students and 5 faculty researchers, presented their summer research results.

Dr. Jorge Gonzalez, UPRM Principal Investigator of the NASA EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) of the Science and Engineering Resource Center participated in the activity, held in the Eugene Francis Room in the Physics' building on August 4, 2006. Dr. Gonzalez gave a seminar summarizing the progress and accomplishments of the group towards understanding the climate changes in the Caribbean
region.

For more detailed information about the local and global implications read: http://www.uprm.edu/news/articles/as2006128.html (written in Spanish)

The Meteorological Network in Puerto Rico is an initiative that will involve the science teachers and their students in Meteorological research projects. Each participating school adopts and administers a weather station to provide local climatological data to the scientific community using the Internet. No more than 10 schools can participate in
this program because of budgetary limitations.

For more detailed information and pictures taken during the inauguration click here.

For the February 2006 Issue click here http://www.indiana.edu/~iauc/ for important urban climate information about the New York City Heat Island and the concept of Urban Rain Water Harvesting (RWH).

"Vital el estudiar las nubes" - click on the link to
read the article (in Spanish).

86^th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. The UPRM Climate Modeling Group have made regular appearances at the AMS annual meetings, this year two aspects of the LCLU research team (modeling and remote sensing) were presented. Go to the Publications section for the extended abstract presented there.

Caribbean Climate Symposium, Mayagüez, PR. The session Land Use and Public Policy will feature world class talks by leading experts in urban tropical climate and discussions on topics pertaining to urban development, climate impacts, policies, and mitigation strategies. http://www.cmg.uprm.edu/ccs/
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6th International Conference on Urban Climate, Göteborg, Sweden. The most resent and upcoming modeling results on the climatic effects of low-land development in northern Puerto Rico will be presented at this international triennial event. For more information go to the conference webpage http://www.gvc.gu.se/icuc6/index.htm