RISE-UP Project Undergraduate Research Assistant Presents a Case Study Related to Coastal Erosion in Puerto Rico

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Aimed at understanding natural processes and establishing a discussion forum for these issues, the Hemispheric Center for Cooperation in Research and Education in Engineering and Applied Science (CoHemis) of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM) sponsored its Seventeenth National Meeting of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems of Puerto Rico (PRYSIG) on October 25, 2019, at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. The event, which brought together experts from different higher education institutions, featured a series of conferences related to recent research with remote sensing tools and geographic information systems.

Jorge Soldevilla, a student from the Department of Social Sciences presenting a case study aimed at understanding natural processes and establishing a discussion forum for these issues, the Hemispheric Center for Cooperation in Research and Education in Engineering and Applied Science (CoHemis) of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM) sponsored its Seventeenth National Meeting of Remote Perception and Geographic Information Systems of Puerto Rico (PRYSIG) on October 25, 2019, at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus The event, which brought together experts from different higher education institutions, featured a series of conferences related to recent research with remote sensing tools and geographic information systems.


During the conference, the undergraduate student Jorge Soldevilla from the Department of Social Sciences, who collaborates in the RISE-UP project as a research assistant, presented. Jorge Soldevila and his mentor, Professor Jonathan Muñoz from the Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying at UPRM, carried out a case study related to coastal erosion in Puerto Rico due to extreme weather events. The study, which measures the impact of Hurricane Maria in four different coastal zones, through Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), revealed that several of these areas have suffered severe coastal erosion. This brought to consider the need to implement effective, economical, and minimal risk methodologies for communities in coastal resilience research.

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