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With Eyes towards the Sky: From Puerto Rico to Yale and back again.

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Professor Hector Arce in his office at Yale

When astrophysicist Dr. Héctor Arce returned home to Puerto Rico in October of 2015, it was to bring a handful of Yale astronomy students to Arecibo Observatory, at that time, the largest single dish radio telescope in the world. For Héctor, a professor of astrophysics at Yale University, passion for the stars started at home. When Héctor was young, his grandfather used to build his own telescopes. “I still have them,” Héctor says. Staring through the lenses of those telescopes with his grandfather opened a universe of possibility for young Héctor.

José Hernández Ayala: A Research Leader in Geographic Climatology

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Dr. Hernández Ayala is a professor of geographic climatology at Sonoma State University

Climatology, the study of weather changes over time, is a prominent scientific field often cited in the media. Sonoma State University, in California, is one of several institutions that has a Climate Research Center (CRC-Sonoma), in which scientists from different disciplines collaborate to better understand the relationships between short-term atmospheric phenomena, the climate, physical geography and human geography. Notably, CRC-Sonoma is directed by a young Arecibeño scientist!

EPA Adds Battery Smelter Facility in Arecibo, Puerto Rico to the Federal Superfund List

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(New York, N.Y. – July 31, 2017) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added a former battery recycling facility in Arecibo, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. As a result of previous operations, the site is contaminated with lead, arsenic and heavy metals. Before it temporarily stopped operating in the spring of 2014, The Battery Recycling Company, Inc.

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The Arecibo observatory provides defense against asteroids

Submitted on 6 July 2016 - 5:29pm

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Arecibo - The Arecibo Observatory is the first line of defense against asteroids that could collide with earth and cause a global disaster. These events have occured in the past, leading to massive extinctions. These space rocks are analyzed by a radar at the Arecibo Observatory to obtain their size, composition, speed and trayectory. 

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Ecotourism Success at Cueva Ventana

Submitted on 29 February 2016 - 4:03pm

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It has been four years since the popular tourist attraction Cueva Ventana, in Arecibo, is one of the most visited places in the Island, for tourist and local residents. This ecotourism initiative is one of the few private natural resources that exist in the country, employing a team of 15 full-time. The development of the attraction has had low environmental impact.

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Summer STEM Academy en UPR-Arecibo - Gratis

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El Proyecto Leading Aerospace Education Development (LASED) y el Laboratorio Multiusos de Ciencias Integradas (ISMuL) ubicados en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Arecibo invita a todo estudiante interesado en carreras en Ciencias, Ingeniería, Matemáticas y otras áreas relacionadas a que soliciten para la Academia de Verano Stem, auspiciado por la NASA.

La Academia incluye completamente GRATIS:

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Arecibo Observatory Space Academy applications are open

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The Arecibo Observatory Space Academy, is recruiting students for its Pre-College Research Program, which provides research opportunities for 9th to 12th grade high school students in Puerto Rico. For more information about the program visit: http://spaceacademyarecibo.wix.com/aosa.  

 

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Professors protest against Arecibo incinerator

Submitted on 9 September 2013 - 8:57pm

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A group of professors at the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Puerto Rico denounced this morning that several government agencies to express themselves against the construction of a trash incinerator by the company Energy Answers in Arecibo.

 

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Arecibo: Ecological crisis scenary

Submitted on 22 July 2013 - 12:47pm

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Arecibo has plenty of natural resources but the lack of urban planification is endangering them. A new plan for urban planification has been developed by EPA and AEE to help alleviate the problem.

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