Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Wednesday June 16th, 2010

Possible meeting with our first project sponsor - Cristalia



The PR Water Cops CL project is looking for a sponsor. In our first efforts to get sponsors, we met with Gelitza Cruz, marketing manager of the prestigious Cristalia water. The New Technology Squad team: Maritza, Joe, Rafa, and Edris teamed up with Sales, and Marketing employees: Wanda and Mayrelis to prepare the presentation and proposal that would be delivered to the Cristalia representative. Our presentation was a success, and Gelitza Cruz was very interested in our project and agreed to evaluate our  needs are and what kind of sponsorship we would need to begin implementation of the PR Water Cops CL Project.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Tuesday June 15th, 2010

Dynamic Model - ArcGIS Explorer


Analysis of a watershed in Puerto Rico would take into account the following layers of GIS information for analysis:
a) weather data including seasonal and station densities, both extreme and average.
b) road map
c) maps of hydrography
d) hydrological data (inventory of water, surface runoff, river network);
e) lists of species for the fauna and flora, land and water, its distribution, life histories, economically important species, rare species and unique or that are in danger of extinction;
f) Protected areas near the place
g) Population density
h) Flood Map
i) ecosystems;
j) Soil maps (distribution, nutrients, toxic minerals);
k) Anthropological studies;
l) Sources of pollution past, present and future can do so by searching or a tour of the area using GPS.
m) Location and description of existing environmental problems, location of critical areas
n) existing demand for natural resources, especially water resources needed for the functioning of urban ecosystems, rural and natural
o) water sampling data for the mouth of the river beaches.




Create the following maps:

a) Buffer Zones vs. actual construction map or aerial photos.
b) Population density vs. amount of available water resources.
c) Analysis of potential areas for reforestation preventing contamination of the canal.
d) Map of places that could be designated as protected reserves or for the benefit of all.
e) Map of the hot spots and dividing by their effect (minimum, medium, severe) for example.
f) Map of risk of contamination and divide as acute or chronic.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Thursday June 3rd, 2010

Looking for your location?

http://hypercities.ats.ucla.edu/

I can tell you from very young I was very interested in the field of science. Since I was in elementary, middle, high and after college, never had an experience like I had in him yesterday, and had told them we were going to visit the Martin Peña pipe near Laguna San José. It was great. We chose three different sites and perform the hydrology sampling protocol.



Equipment used for our first samples in site 1.


Calibration of sensors before starting sampling.



PH sensor calibration.


Sampling with the pH sensor.



Sensors ready for water quality sampling.

Adjust LabQuest interface for making testing.



Collection of data in the data sheet released.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Wednesday June 2nd, 2010 - Field Trip to Río Piedras

Field Trip to Caño Martin Peña and the Rio Piedras
Todya, Gamaliel Carmona and myself will go to Rio Piedras, specifically near the Botanical Gardens and the Caño Martin Peña to do a "muestreo" or take a few data samples. Specifically, we will collect data in different places. Among the tasks to perform in this first voyage is to measury the levels of temperature, pH, turbidity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen and nitrates. The use of a GPS to collect the exact location of the samples facilitates making a geographic analysis by creating dynamic models in ArcGIS Explorer (by ESRI).





Interphase of ArcGIS Explorer