University Of Puerto Rico
DOE Solar Decathlon: Universidad de Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is a second-time participant in the Solar Decathlon. This time, the university is pooling the efforts of 52 students to form one of the largest teams in the 2005 competition, combining the expertise of 8 architecture students, 8 business administration students, and 36 engineering students. The solar house project is incorporated into several multidisciplinary courses offered at the university, and those courses have helped to finalize the team's design. The team's entry will reflect Puerto Rican cultural values, emphasizing hospitality and social interaction by blurring the division between exterior and interior spaces. ... [Read More]
University of Puerto Rico
The Women and Health Center operates through three major components: Clinical, Education/Information Dissemination/Professional Development and Leadership; and Research. The three components have Advisory Committees composed of representatives of all the schools on campus and the Center has an Advisory Board. Through the leadership of the Center’s director and co-director, the W&HC acts as a coordinating unit across departments and schools on campus, in health care services for women, as producer and distributor of information on women’s health and as facilitator of interchange of ideas and collaboration among investigators. The most important strategy in the implementation of the model is the coordination and maximization of existing resources, particularly human resources. Community outreach is also, a major effort of the center; that has established successful partnerships and alliances within and outside the university, including community-based organizations. ... [Read More]
ESSAP Survey Locations: Puerto Rico
Independent Verification Activities Transformer Pad Remediation Center for Energy and Environmental Research, University of Puerto Rico ... [Read More]
DOE Solar Decathlon: Highlights from 2002 - University of Puerto Rico
The students are quite proud of their desiccant and vapor compressor cooling system, a hybrid system that uses less energy than a bigger compressor. The desiccant is incorporated to remove humidity. One student was awarded a National Science Foundation scholarship to continue work on the hybrid system. For heat, they used hot water passing through a heating coil in a nontraditional evacuated-tube system. The absorbing material in the heat pipes is a circular fin that goes around the perimeter of the evacuated tube. In addition, there's a reflector underneath the tubes, so any additional energy that goes between the tubes will be collected back in the tube because of the absorber material in the back of the tube. ... [Read More]
NOAA Ocean Explorer: Puerto Rico trench
A large amphitheater-shaped scarp (a line of cliffs produced by faulting or erosion), 55 km across, is located on the northern insular slope of Puerto Rico, 37 km north of the city of Arecibo. The USGS first discovered the scarp in the 1980s while mapping the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), utilizing the GLORIA system, a long-range side-scan sonar. It was interpreted as a giant submarine slide that removed 1,500 sq km of the Tertiary layer, which was covered by a thick (1,300-1,500 m) sequence of carbonate rocks. Figure 1 is a 3-D view of the scarp looking south toward Puerto Rico. In 1990, it took one month to generate this single image. Much higher resolution images, created in near real-time from this multibeam bathymetry survey (Figure 2), show the morphology of this scarp failure in greater detail. ... [Read More]
GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Puerto Rico
Law Library of Congress | GLIN | Century of Lawmaking | Library of Congress ... CRS Report 97-526 - Puerto Rico: A Chronology of Political Status History - available to the public via Counting California and in text/PDF from the Senate ... (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers background information and links ... [Read More]
Puerto Rico at the cutting edge of offshore aquaculture
As part of this project with cutting edge technology, the National Sea Grant Program has provided economic support to a group of researchers to culture the fry at The Aquaculture Center of the Florida Keys, Inc. Mr. Loyal Eldridge is the President of the company and works in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Benetti, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. The University of Puerto Rico also received National Sea Grant funds to conduct a study to carefully monitor the environmental impact of cage culture in surrounding waters. This project is led by UPRM Dr. Alexis Cabarcas and UPRM Dr. Dallas E. Alston, and Dr. Patrick Rapp from UPRM Department of Physics. In addition, the University of Puerto Rico has been authorized for funding from the NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, to be used for similar environmental monitoring as well as to determine the social impact of cage culture in terms of community support, perceptions, attitudes, and possible confli ... [Read More]
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Sea Grant is located at the University of Puerto Rico and is devoted to the conservation and sustainable use of coastal and marine resources in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Caribbean region. The program's mission is two-fold: to conduct excellent scientific research in the areas of water quality, fisheries and mariculture, seafood safety, marine recreation and coastal tourism, coastal hazards and coastal communities economic development; and to apply scientific knowledge to solve a variety of problems their communities of users face every day. Puerto Rico Sea Grant disseminates research findings through two magazines: Boletín Marino and Sea Grant in the Caribbean, as well as through a variety of other educational products. For more information see http://seagrant.uprm.edu ... [Read More]
Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 Home Page
Young people growing up today have no memory of a time when the nation’s factories spewed black clouds of smoke into the air. They are, however, all too familiar with the black puffs of smoke that come from cars, trucks, buses, and construction and farm equipment that run on diesel fuel. But the days of riding behind a dirty diesel will soon be over, thanks to a suite of federal clean diesel programs that improve emission controls on nearly every type of diesel engine in use today or in the future.... more ... [Read More]
BBS - Puerto Rico - USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
University of Puerto Rico ... Dept. of Biol., Campus Box CUH ... U.S. Department of the Interior ... [Read More]
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