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March 7 and 8, 2016
8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Business Administration Building ( AE-242)
March 7, 2016 Oral Presentations and
Poster Session
March 8, 2016 Oral Presentations
Pro g ram
Monday, March 7
8:30 am Registration
8:45 am Opening Ceremony
Session I
9:00-10:15 am Lisa Ely Following the footsteps of Charles Darwin:
Combining geological and historical evidence to
assess tsunami hazards
10:15-10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 am Tamie J. Jovanelly Rebuilding after tsunami disaster: Case studies
from Japan
11:30-11:45 am Zamara Fuentes Overwash deposits in St. Thomas and Puerto Rico:
A PhD update
11:45 am –1:15 pm LUNCH (on own)
Session II
1:15-1:45 pm Christa von Hillebrandt Tsunami Warning System for the Caribbean and
Adjacent Regions: 2016 Updates
1:45-2:00 pm Cherrymar Reyes CARIBE WAVE 16: Overview of the 2016 Tsunami
exercise and the role of the PTWC
2:00-2:15 pm Giovanni Seijo Maritime Tsunami Hazard Modelling and
Analysis: San Juan, Mayagüez and Ponce Bays
2:15-2:30 pm Nadja O. Cintrón The Southwestern Igneous Province of Puerto
Rico: geochemistry of spinel peridotites and
basalts within an ophiolitic mélange
Poster Session
2:30-3:00 pm Student Poster Highlights
3:00-3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15-5:00 pm Poster Session
Pro g ram
Tuesday, March 8
Session I
8:30-9:00 am Stephen Hughes Entrenched Meanders and Stream Piracy in the
Río Añasco Watershed, Western Puerto Rico
9:00-9:15 am Eduardo González Knickpoint Formation, Paleo Base Level
Modelling, and Uplift in the Guayanilla River
Basin, Southern Puerto Rico
9:15-9:30 am Andreana Madera Control of Knickpoint Development and Age of
Relict Surfaces in the Tallaboa River Basin,
Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
9:30-9:45 am Rolf Vieten Calibration of Speleothem Climate Records &
Speleoseismology - Observations from Cueva
Larga, Puerto Rico
9:45-10:00 am Coffee Break
Session II
10:00-11:00 am Lisa Ely Geomorphic signatures of floods and dams on river
landscapes
11:00-11:15 am Elizabeth Vanacore Imaging the Crustal and Subducted Slab Structure
Beneath Puerto Rico Using Receiver Function
Analysis
11:15-11:30 am Ricardo Méndez Relative travel Time Tomography of the Puerto
Rico and Virgin Islands region
11:30-11:45 am Ángel Adames Paleoseismic Study of the North Boqueron Bay
Punta Montalva Fault Zone: A Capable Fault
System in Southwestern Puerto Rico
11:45 am –12:00 pm Gisela Báez CARIBE WAVE Tsunami exercise in Puerto Rico:
Past exercises and 2016 activities
12:00-12:15 pm Aurelio Mercado A comparison of CPUs vs. GPUs in tsunami
modelling: Testing with the LANTEX 2013
Scenario
12:15-1:30 pm LUNCH (on own)
Session III
1:30-2:30 pm Tamie J. Jovanelly Promoting science literacy by combining
interdisciplinary and experiential teaching styles
2:30-2:45 pm Fernando Martínez TWEB: A new tool to help visualize tsunami effects
in quasi Real-Time
2:45-3:00 pm Roy Ruiz Pedestrian Tsunami Evacuation Analysis for
coastal Mayagüez
3:00-3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15-3:30 pm Saylisse Padilla A High-Dimensional, Decision Theory Approach to
Tsunami Exposure Indexes
3:30-3:45 pm Nicole Castiel/ Vulnerability Attribute Selection for Tsunami
Carlos Sánchez Hazard Assessment