O u r s p o n s o r s :

Notes

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