Graduate Catalogue - UPRM

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programs and other opportunities, their
disciplines, and details on locations and benefits
can be found at http://www.orau.gov/orise
/educ.htm, or by calling either of the contacts
below.
ORAU's Office of Partnership Development
seeks opportunities for partnerships and alliances
among ORAU's members, private industry, and
major federal facilities. Activities include
faculty development programs, such as the Ralph
E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards,
the Visiting Industrial Scholars Program,
consortium research funding initiatives, faculty
research and support programs as well as
services to chief research officers.
generating innovative research and producing
Earth System scientists well trained in the
application of these tools. We conduct image
processing and analyses of several sensors,
including SeaWiFS, AVHRR, MODIS, ETM +,
SAR, IKONOS, and Hyperion. Our research
facilities include an image processing laboratory
equipped with three Dell personal computers,
two Silicon Graphics, scanners, a plotter, and
color printers. We also have teaching facilities
with twenty personal computers, scanners, and
printers. ENVI and ArcGIS software are
available in all our research and teaching
computers.
For more information about ORAU and its
programs, contact: Dr. Fernando J. Bird-Pico,
Director of the Research and Development
Center, ORAU Councilor for University of
Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, or Monnie E.
Champion, ORAU Corporate Secretary (865-
576-3306); or visit the ORAU Home Page
(http://www.orau.org ).
Puerto Rico Seismic Network
PRSN is administered by the Department of
Geology. The staff oversees a network of 25
broad and short period seismic stations and 6 tide
gauges and weather stations installed in the
Puerto Rico region. The main objective of
PRSN is to process and analyze local, regional,
teleseismic earthquakes. Data are made
available to the general public and distributed
among scientific and academic communities and
emergency management organizations. The
PRSN also operates a tsunami warning system
monitoring seismic and tsunami events in Puerto
Rico the Caribbean and adjoining regions.
Geological and Environmental Remote
Sensing Laboratory (GERS Lab)
GERS Lab was founded in January 2002 as part
of the Department of Geology in the University
of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Our mission is to
promote and facilitate the education and research
of the Earth System Science using remote
sensing. Current research is mainly focused on
environmental monitoring with bio-optical
properties and digital images. We are also
interested in developing Geographic Information
Systems. Our vision is to become a prestigious
laboratory in remote sensing of the Caribbean by
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Graduate Catalogue 2010-2011