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FACULTY

Name	Position	Area
Dr. Jorge Gonzalez	Pricipal investigator, University of Santa Clara	Numerical Modeling of Climate Dynamics
Dr. Ramon Vasquez Espinosa	Co-Principal Investigator, Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering, UPRM	Remote Sensing Data, Collection Analysis
Dr. Nazario Ramirez	Co-Principal Investigator, professor of Industrial Engineering	Statistical Analisys of Climate Data
Dr. Amos Winter	Co-Principal Investigator and Director of UPRM Climatology Center	Data Acquisition and Analisys
Dr. Eric Harmsen	Co-Principal Investigator and Professor of Agricultural Engineering, UPRM	Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR),, Hidrology
Dr. Hamed Parsiani	Co-Principal Investigator and Professor of Electrical Engineerin, UPRM	GPR, Image Processing
Dr. Fernando Gilbes	Co-Principal Investigator (NOAA-CREST) and Professor of Geology, UPRM	Coastal Marine Science
Dr. Craig Tepley	Co-Principal Investigator from he Arecibo Observatory	LIDAR research in atmospheric science
Dr. Robert Waide	Post-Doctoral Associate, University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Terrestrial Ecology
Dr. Joseph L. Eastman	Co-Principal Investigator and Professor of the University of New Mexico	RAMS
Dr. Robin Williams	Co-Principal Investigator, Professor of Marine Science	Atmospheric Science
Dr. Vikran Pandya	Co-Principal Investigator, Professor of Mehcanical Engineering	Microphysics of clouds
Mr. Porfirio Beltran	NASA - Fellow	Electronic Signals

STAFF

Name	Position
Srta. Omayra Gonzalez	Secretary and Coordinator
Mr. William Martinez	Finance Administration
Mr Luis Lopez	Computer System Administrator

Current Graduate Students

Name	Supervisor	Start Date	Area
Moises Angeles	Dr. Jorge E. Gonzalez	15/08/2002	Global climate impact over the Caribbean egion using scenarios from IPCC
Ana Picon	Dr. Ramon Vasquez	15/08/2002	Study cloud top height retrieval using MODIS
Joan Manuel Castro Sánchez	Dr. Nazario Ramirez	15/08/2002	Hurricane Activity in the Carribean in the next century
Oswaldo Julca Benites	Dr. Nazario Ramirez	15/01/2004	Climate change detection in the Caribbean region
Alex J. Rivera Irizarry	Dr. Hamed Parsiani	15/08/2004	Aerosols distributions in the island using LIDAR
Axcel Maldonado	Dr. Vikran Pandya	15/01/2004	Microphysics of clouds
Marcel Giovanni Prieto	Dr. Eric Harmsen	15/12/2004	Hydrologic Modeling

PHD Students

Name	Supervisor	Start Date	Area
Mr. Pedro J. Mulero		15/08/2004	Computer Modeling Programmer
Daniel Comarazamy	Dr. Jorge E. Gonzalez	15/08/2004	Urban Heat Island in a Tropical Coastal City