Professor Aurelio Mercado Irizarry, retired from the Department of Marine Sciences of the Mayagüez University Campus (RUM), of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), received an appointment as a member of the Tsunami Science and Technology Advisor Panel of the National Oceanic Administration and Atmospheric (NOAA), with the main mission of advising on scientific issues and the use of technology related to tsunamis.

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For the 4th year, the Environmental Quality Board, the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Agency and Para La Naturaleza celebrated the Symposium on prevention and control of light pollution in Puerto Rico.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recommends the assignment of $200,000 federal funds for the program on restoration of coral reefs from the University of Puerto at Rio Piedras as part of the Coastal Resilience Grants. 

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The purpose of Caribe Wave 2017 is to improve the efficacy of the Tsunami Alert Systems in Caribbean Coasts. This provides an opportunity for the emergency management organizations of the region to test their operational communication lines and promote the preparation in the event of tsunamis.

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*UPR-Río Piedras has the only Aerosol station in the Caribbean and Southern Hemisphere.  

For more than a decade, a group of students from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, has been distinguished for generating information researching the impact of particles in the environment. This work is done at the Aereosol Station located at Las Cabezas de San Juan Light Hourse in Fajardo.