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Course to be offered in Microirrigation Systems – UPRM
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Graduate Course to be offered in Applied Remote Sensing – UPRM
The Port to Nowhere: PR’s lost opportunity
Excerpted from The Puerto Rican English Blog: http://prenglishblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-port-to-nowhere.html
Monday, September 9, 2013
The Port to Nowhere
(AKA “The Island of Disenchantment”)
Even though this is a relatively old article, it’s just so depressing to hear, and I had to share it and vent a little.
Ponce’s Port of the Américas’ transshipment potential rapidly fading away – at CaribbeanBusinessPR.com.
The Port of the Americas (aka the Port of Ponce) is PR’s opportunity to become a vital link in world trade, the only deep-water port in the Caribbean that could handle the super-huge PANAMAX container ships that traverse the Panama Canal. We were billed to become the “Singapore of the Caribbean”. We were set to reclaim our position as the 1st Port of the New World, the geographic axis connecting North America, South America, and Europe, and with the traffic from the Panama Canal, Asia as well. This is PR’s chance to grow rich and powerful off of basically just being there, sitting in the ocean exactly where it’s always been, which is the best way to get rich. READ MORE…
Courses offered this semester at UPRM: Farm Irrigation and Agroclimatology (TMAG)
I will be offering the following two courses this semester at UPR-Mayaguez. Please click the following links for the course fliers.
TMAG 5017 Agroclimatology
TMAG 4019 Farm Drainage and Irrigation Systems
Please feel free to contact me if you would like additional information about either course.
Eric Harmsen, Professor
University of Puerto Rico
Dept. of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
email: harmsen1000@hotmail.com, eric.harmsen@upr.edu
phone: 787-955-5102
websites: http://pragwater.com , http://bahai.org
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Thursday’s rainfall in Puerto Rico and San Juan
This map comes from NOAA’s Multisensor Precipitation Estimation (MPE) product. The rainfall map is based on NEXRAD radar, bias corrected with rain gauge data. Note that the Old San Juan/Condado area of San Juan registered over 200 mm (> 8 inches).
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Course offerings this semester at UPRM: Farm Irrigation and Agroclimatology (TMAG)
I will be offering the following two courses this semester at UPR-Mayaguez. Please click the following links for the course fliers.
TMAG 5017 Agroclimatology
TMAG 4019 Farm Drainage and Irrigation Systems
Please feel free to contact me if you would like additional information about either course.
Eric Harmsen, Professor
University of Puerto Rico
Dept. of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
email: harmsen1000@hotmail.com, eric.harmsen@upr.edu
phone: 787-955-5102
websites: http://pragwater.com , http://bahai.org
NOAA CREST SUMMER CAMP at UPRM
Students from across Puerto Rico attended the NOAA CREST Summer Camp this week on the UPRM Campus. This afternoon, they attended a workshop by Dr. Eric Harmsen, which focused on the use of GOES-PRWEB for scheduling irrigation in Puerto Rico. Irrigation scheduling is important for water conservation and for achieving optimal crop yields. The presentation is provided below:
DOWNLOAD PDF PRESENTATION HERE
An Agricultural Application of GOES-PRWEB
In this presentation a simple, web-based method for scheduling irrigation is presented. The presentation was given at the 8th Annual NOAA CREST Symposium, The City College of City University of New York, NY, June 5-6, 2013.
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