List of Abstracts

Author

Institution

Title

Comments

M. Patrick McCormick,  John Anderson, Michael Hill

Center for Atmospheric Sciences

Hampton University

 

An Historical Perspective of the 1991 Pinatubo Eruption

1

T,   S1

John Anderson, Michael Hill, M. Patrick McCormick, James M. Russell III, Hovakim Nazaryan

Center for Atmospheric Sciences

Hampton University

 

An Ozone Climatology Constructed from Remotely-Sensed Measurements

2

T,   S1

Steiner J. C,  Rudolph E.

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York, and the PhD Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York, and the NOAA-CREST Center at CCNY

Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Profiles of Air-masses Over New York City: Initial Attempts at Source Rrecognition

3

Poster

Jans U.

NOAA-CREST Center at CCNY, Department of Chemistry, City College of New York, PhD Program in Chemistry at the City University of New York, and the NOAA-CREST Center at CCNY

Cai J.

NOAA-CREST Center at CCNY

Guarca A.

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York , NOAA-CREST Center at CCNY

Miguel Cortés

UPRM, The Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept.

An Expert Database System for Atmospheric studies in Puerto Rico

4

Poster

Michael Hill

Center for Atmospheric Sciences

Hampton University

 

Comparison of Ozone Profiles from Remote-Sensing Satellite Instruments

5

Poster

Ismail Yucel

Center for Atmospheric Sciences

Hampton University

Impact of Using remotely-sensed data in the Regional Scale of Hydrometeorological Modeling Systems

6

T,   S2

Melvin A. Felton Jr. Thomas Kovacs, M. Patrick McCormick

Center for Atmospheric Sciences

Hampton University

Polar Stratospheric Cloud Classification using LIDAR Data

7

T,   S2

Ali H. Omar

NASA Langley Research Center, Atmospheric Sciences Division

Hampton, VA

Mayra Figueroa, Ana J. Picón and Vanessa Ortiz

UPRM, Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept.

Aerosol and Cloud Top Height Retrieval Algorithms from MODIS and MISR

8

Poster

R. Méendez, J. Peñalbert

Natural Science Department.

University of Puerto Rico at Carolina

Trend of Maximum and Minimum daily Temperatures in Puerto Rico

9

Poster

J. Valentin

University of Florida

Geography Department

Elier F. Torres Pagan

UPRM, The Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept.

AVHRR Data Collection and Processing in TeraScan Station

10

Poster

Carlos Maldonado, Ana Maria Garcia

UPRM

Residue Curve Maps for Non-Equilibrium Models

11

Poster

Jorge Diaz Grandes and Lacksmir Sridhar

UPRM

Modeling Dynamic Behavior of Chemically Reacting Air Pollutants

12

T,   S3

Daniel A. Rodríguez Delgado, H. Parsiani, E. Harmsen

UPRM

3-D Subsurface Sand Moisture Content Determination

13

Poster

Victor Marrero, Hamed Parsiani

UPRM

Unsupervised Cluster Determination

14

Poster

Elí Samuel García ,Maritza Torres,  Hamed Parsiani

UPRM

3-D Subsurface Radiation Pattern Determination

15

Poster

Hamed Parsiani, L. Tolstoy

UPRM, Electrical and Comp. Eng. Dept.

Neural Network Classification of the Subsurface Reflected

16

T,   S2

Eric Harmsen,  Hamed Parsiani

UPRM

Modification of the Simple Volumetric Mixing Model Relating Soil Diele

17

Poster

Eric Harmsen, Richard Diaz,  Hamed Parsiani

UPRM

3-D Subsurface Moisture Content Determination

18

Poster

Eric Harmsen, Antonio Gonzalez and Amos Winter

UPRM

Estimating Long-Term Average Monthly Evapotranspiration from Pan Evapo

19

T,   S3

Dr. Williams Robin, Angeles Malaspina, Moisés Elías, Dr. Gonzáles Jorge

UPRM

Mesoscale Atmospheric Modeling Using RAMS

20

T,   S3

Isha M. Renta López, Dr.Jorge Gonzalez, Dr. Robin Williams

UPRM

Community Climate System Model (version 2)

21

Poster

Shikha Raizada

Arecibo Observatory,

National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center,

University of Puerto RicoMayaguez

Raman and Rayleigh Lidar Techniques for Measuring Temperature and Water Vapor of the Lower  Atmosphere at the Arecibo Observatory

 

22

T,   S2

Craig Tepley

Jonathan Friedman

Daniel Kao

Ingrid Pla

O.L. Mayol-Bracero

Institute For Tropical Studies, UPR, Rio Piedras, PR;  Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Olanck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Water -Soluble Species in Biomass Burning Aerosols over Amazonia

23

T,   S4

M.O. Andreae

Dept. of Biogeochemistry, Max Olanck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

P. Artaxo

Institute for Physics , University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

S. Decessari, M.C. Facchini, S. Fuzzi

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences And Climate, CNR, Bologna, Italy

B. Graham

CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Victoria, Australia;  Dept. of Biogeochemistry, Max Olanck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

P. Guyon

Dept. of Biogeochemistry, Max Olanck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Jorge E. Corredor, Julio M. Morell

UPRM, Department of Marine Sciences

 

Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Water Mass Properties at the Caribbean Time Series Station – CaTS

24

T,   S1

Ralph Jean-Bart

CUNY, Electrical Eng. Dept.

Remote Sensing And Signal Processing

25

Poster

Amos Winter

UPRM, Dept. of Marine Sciences

Influence of Saharan Dust on the Caribbean summer Precipitation Minimum

26

T,   S1

Robin Williams

UPRM, Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Ramon Vasquez

Solimar Reyes

Giselle Agosto

UPRM, Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept.

The Use of Remotely Sensed Data to Detect Environmental Factors That Could be Associated With the Cause of Cancer in Puerto Rico

27

Poster

Raymond M. Hoff, Kevin J. McCann, Belay Demoz, Jens Reichardt

Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and the NOAA CREST, UMBC, Baltimore, MD, USA

Regional East Atmospheric Lidar Mesonet: REALM

28

T,   S2

David N. Whiteman, Tom McGee

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

M. Patrick McCormick

NOAA CREST, Hampton University, Hampton, VA

C. Russell Philbrick

Dept. of Electrical Eng., Penn State University, University Park, PA

Kevin Strawbridge

Meteorological Service of Canada, Center for Atmospheric Research Experiments (CARE), Egbert, Ontario, Canada

Fred Moshray, Barry Gross, Sam Ahmed

NOAA CREST, City College of New York, New York, NY

Demetrius Venable, Everette Joseph

NOAA CREST, Physics Dept.., Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Julio M. Morell, Jorge E. Corredor, Jose M. Lopez, Roy Armstrong

UPRM, Dept. of Marine Sciences

Atmospheric Carbon Sequestration in Eastern Caribbean Sea waters

29

Poster

Jorge F. Bauza, Julio M. Morell and Jorge E. Corredor

UPRM, Dept. of Marine Sciences

Nitrous Oxide Fluxes and Production in the Eastern Caribbean Basin - Results of the TCESS ORIPEX-VI Expedition

30

Poster

Nazario D. Ramirez

UPRM, Dept. of Industrial Eng.

Empirical Probability Models to Predict Puerto Rico Monthly Rainfall Process

31

Poster

K.-M. Lau

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Amos Winter

UPRM,  Dept. of Marine Sciences

Joan M. Castro

UPRM

Nazario Ramirez Escalante

UPRM

Nazario D. Ramirez

UPRM, Dept. of Industrial Eng.

Neural Networks Estimate Atmospheric Variables in the Caribbean Basin

32

T,   S3

Amos Winter

UPRM,  Dept. of Marine Sciences

Felipe Chong Rengifo

Anthony Veneros

Nazario Ramirez Escalante

UPRM, Dept. of Industrial Eng.

Joseph L Eastman

University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

Spatial and Temporal Sensitivity of Precipitation to Land Surface Status

33

T,   S3

Michelle Hawkins

Howard University,  Atmospheric sciences

Urban Climate, Extreme Temperatures, and Childhood Respiratory Diseases in Washington, D.C

34

T,   S4

Jacqueline Spence, Michael Taylor

 

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica W.I

Dept. of  Physics

 

Examining the Effect of Concurrent SST Anomalies on Caribbean Rainfall

35

Poster

Thomas C. Peterson

National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

 

Recent Changes in Climate Extremes in the Caribbean Region

36

Poster

Michael A. Taylor

University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica.

 

Roy A. Armstrong

NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS)

Bio Optical Oceanography Laboratory

Department of Marine Sciences

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

 

Airborne Fungi in Sahara Dust Aerosols Reaching the Caribbean Region

 

37

T,   S4

Yasmín Detrés

Porfirio Beltran,

NASA Goddard

The Atlas Mission in Puerto Rico

38

T,   S4

Jorge Gonzalez, Nazario Ramirez, Amos Winter,Robin Williams, Pieter Van der Meer

UPRM

Jaime L. Matta

 

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Ponce School of Medicine

 

Developing a Public Health Component as part of the Joint Institute for Caribbean Climate Studies

39

Poster

Dr. Juliana Maantay, Dellis Stanberry

 

Department of Geography

Lehman College/CUNY New York of Medicine

 

Mapping Air Pollution and Asthma in the Bronx, New York City

40

Poster


 

Legend:

 

T, S n = Talk , Technical Session Number (The time and date of Technical Sessions you can find at Agenda)

Poster = Poster Presentation in Patio of the UPRM School of Nursing; Poster Stands and Poster Boards will be provided.

Name in bold letters = Presenter