Program Caribbean Geological Conference

**(last up dated 7/6/2005 11:10 AM)**

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|         | **Session 1**             | **Session 2**                 |
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| Monday, |                           |                               |
| July    |                           |                               |
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| *       | **Opening Plenary         |                               |
| *8:00** | Session**                 |                               |
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|         | **Welcome by officials    |                               |
|         | from the Puerto Rico      |                               |
|         | Government**              |                               |
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|         | **and the University of   |                               |
|         | Puerto Rico**             |                               |
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|         | **The Impact of 50 years  |                               |
|         | Caribbean Geological      |                               |
|         | Conference on Caribbean   |                               |
|         | Geological Research**     |                               |
|         |                           |                               |
|         | **1955-2005**             |                               |
|         |                           |                               |
|         | **Grenville Draper**      |                               |
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| **      | **Caribbean Hydrocarbon   | **Petrology and Tectonics of  |
| Session | Resources**               | the Northern Caribbean        |
| title   |                           | Margin**                      |
| and     | **Moderator: Luis         |                               |
| mode    | González**                | **Moderator: Edward Lidiak**  |
| rator** |                           |                               |
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| **9:00  | **bpTT**: Structural      | **Hastie. A.**: The tectonic  |
| -9:30** | Development of the        | evolution of the Caribbean    |
|         | Columbus Basin, offshore  | Plate: Insights from volcanic |
|         | S. E. Trinidad            | rocks in Jamaica and the      |
|         |                           | Virgin Islands                |
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| **9:30- | **bpTT**: 3D              | **Pal, P. and Draper, G.**:   |
| 10.00** | Visualization of the      | Micro-Boudinage in Blueschist |
|         | Columbus Basin, offshore  | of Eastern Jamaica            |
|         | S. E. Trinidad            |                               |
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| *       | **BREAK**                 |                               |
| *10:00- |                           |                               |
| 10:15** |                           |                               |
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| *       | **bpTT**:                 | **Lewis, J.F. et al**:        |
| *10:30- | Plio-Pleistocene          | Anomalous Granitoid           |
| 11:00** | Depositional fill of the  | compositions from the         |
|         | Columbus Basin -- Gross   | northwestern Cayman Trench:   |
|         | Depositional Environment  | Implications for the          |
|         | mapping                   | composition and evolution of  |
|         |                           | the Cayman Ridge              |
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| *       | **bpTT**: Common Risk     | **Garcia-Senz, J. et al**:    |
| *11:00- | Segment Mapping --        | The Structure of the Oriental |
| 11:30** | focusing the exploration  | Cordillera of the Dominican   |
|         | effort in the Columbus    | Republic                      |
|         | Basin, Offshore S. E.     |                               |
|         | Trinidad                  |                               |
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| *       | **bpTT**: From Regional   | **Lewis, J.F. et al**: New    |
| *11:30- | to Shotpoint. Chachalaca  | Petrological and Geochemical  |
| 12:00** | Discovery, Columbus       | constraints on the origin of  |
|         | Basin, Offshore S. E.     | Loma Caribe peridotite        |
|         | Trinidad                  | (Dominican Republic)          |
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| **12:00 | **LUNCH**                 |                               |
| -1:30** |                           |                               |
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|         | **Moderator: Ian          | **Moderator: Simon Mitchell** |
|         | Stewart**                 |                               |
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| **1:30  | **R. Winter et al**:      | **Lewis, J. F.**: Composition |
| -2:00** | Reservoir                 | and mineralogy of PGE-Rich    |
|         | characterization and      | Loma Peguera chromitites,     |
|         | Hydrocarbon Implications  | Dominican Republic            |
|         | of the early Pliocene     |                               |
|         | deltaic sedimentary       |                               |
|         | succession of the         |                               |
|         | Columbus channel,         |                               |
|         | Trinidad                  |                               |
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| **2:00  | **Perret, T**: Field      | **Draper, G. et al**: Cuaba   |
| -2:30** | development in a          | Gneiss, Dominican Republic:   |
|         | challenging Geological    | an ultra high pressure        |
|         | environment               | metamorphic terrane in the    |
|         |                           | northern Caribbean            |
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| **2:30  | **Taylor, C**:            | **Lao-Davila, D. A.**:        |
| -3:00** | Connectivity within a     | Preliminary Study of          |
|         | field: How production     | Serpentinite Deformation in   |
|         | startup data can answer   | Southwest Puerto Rico         |
|         | some of the questions?    |                               |
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| **3:00  | **BREAK**                 |                               |
| -3:15** |                           |                               |
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| **3:30  | **Schenk, C.**: Geologic  | **Jolly, W.**: Role of        |
| -4:00** | uncertainty in the        | crustal melting in            |
|         | assessment of             | petrogenesis of the           |
|         | undiscovered oil and gas  | Cretaceous water island       |
|         | resources of the          | formation, Virgin Islands     |
|         | Jurassic-Cretaceous total | Northeast Antilles Island Arc |
|         | petroleum system,         |                               |
|         | Northwestern Cuba         |                               |
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| **4:00  | **Gonzalez, L.A. and      | **Lidiak, E.**: Cretaceous    |
| -4:30** | Uribe, R.**: Petrography  | Geochemical Stratigraphy in   |
|         | and stable isotope        | the northern Virgin Islands-, |
|         | geochemistry of Upper     | northeast Antilles Island Arc |
|         | Cretaceous carbonate      |                               |
|         | concretions and veins in  |                               |
|         | the Cariblanco Formation  |                               |
|         | of south-central Puerto   |                               |
|         | Rico: Implications for    |                               |
|         | hydrocarbon generation    |                               |
|         | and migration             |                               |
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| **4:30  |                           | **Jolly, W.**: Late           |
| -5:00** |                           | Cretaceous to Mid-Eocene      |
|         |                           | pelagic sediment budget in    |
|         |                           | Puerto Rico and the Virgin    |
|         |                           | Islands, Northeast Antilles   |
|         |                           | Island Arc                    |
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| **T     | **Tectonic events and     | **Quaternary Geology**        |
| uesday, | processes in the          |                               |
| July    | Caribbean**               | **Moderator: Wilson Ramirez** |
| 19**    |                           |                               |
|         | **Moderator: Walter       |                               |
|         | Maresch**                 |                               |
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| **8:30  | **Weber, J. et al.**:     | **Prentice, C.**:             |
| -9:00** | Sinking of obducted       | Paleoseismology in the        |
|         | oceanic fore-arc terrane  | Caribbean: A review of        |
|         | in Caribbean -- South     | studies in Hispaniola, Puerto |
|         | America plate boundary    | Rico and Trinidad             |
|         | zone.                     |                               |
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| **9:00  | **Sisson, V.B. and Ave    | **Hubbard, D.K.**: Holocene   |
| -9:30** | Lallemant, H.G.**:        | Coral Reef Development in     |
|         | Tectonic evolution of the | Cañada Honda, SW Dominican    |
|         | Caribbean Mountain        | Republic                      |
|         | System, Northern          |                               |
|         | Venezuela: Evidence for   |                               |
|         | an Atypical origin for a  |                               |
|         | fold and thrust belt      |                               |
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| **9:30- | **Levander, A.**:         | **Sherman, C.E. et al**: Age  |
| 10:00** | BOLIVAR: Continental      | and facies of submerged Late  |
|         | growth and deformation    | Pleistocene reefs, Oahu,      |
|         | along the south           | Hawaii: Implications for      |
|         | American-Caribbean plate  | stage 7 and late stage 5 sea  |
|         | boundary                  | levels                        |
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| *       | **BREAK**                 |                               |
| *10:00- |                           |                               |
| 10:15** |                           |                               |
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| *       | **Magnani et al**:        | **Rosner, S. M.**: Late       |
| *10:30- | BOLIVAR: A snapshot of    | Glacial Stage Holocene        |
| 11:00** | the Caribbean-South       | Transition recorded in a      |
|         | American plate boundary   | Northern Venezuela stalagmite |
|         | at 67.5W                  |                               |
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| *       | **Clark, S.A. et al**:    | **Goldstein, R.H. et al**:    |
| *11:00- | BOLIVAR: A cross-section  | Carbonate Diagenesis from     |
| 11:30** | of the Caribbean-South    | Evaporated Seawater           |
|         | American plate boundary   |                               |
|         | at 64W                    |                               |
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| *       | **Pindell, J.**: The      | **James, S.**: Geochemistry   |
| *11:30- | Paleogene Proto-Caribbean | and formation of horizontal   |
| 12:00** | Subduction Zone and       | elongate concretions in a     |
|         | arc-arc collision between | mixed sand-gravel shoreface   |
|         | South America and the     |                               |
|         | Caribbean plate           |                               |
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| **12:00 | **LUNCH**                 |                               |
| -1:30** |                           |                               |
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|         | **Tectonic events and     | **Mineral Resources**         |
|         | processes in the          |                               |
|         | Caribbean**               | **Moderator: Johannes         |
|         |                           | Schellekens**                 |
|         | **Moderator: James        |                               |
|         | Pindell**                 |                               |
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| **1:30  | **Rogers, R.**:           | **Mckenzie, N.**: Geochemical |
| -2:00** | Post-Jurassic Evolution   | interpretation of Jamaican    |
|         | of the Chortis Block and  | rocks displaying pozzolanic   |
|         | its role on the evolution | properties to be used in the  |
|         | of the Caribbean          | manufacture of cement         |
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| **2:00  | **Mitchell, S. F.**:      | **Espaillat, J.**: Review of  |
| -2:30** | Cretaceous and Cainozoic  | the exploration for metallic  |
|         | evolution of Jamaica. How | mineral resources within the  |
|         | does it test the current  | Bayaguana District in the     |
|         | models?                   | eastern Dominican Republic    |
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| **2:30  | **Stanek, K.P. et al**:   |                               |
| -3:00** | Contrasting high-pressure |                               |
|         | P-T-t-d paths in a single |                               |
|         | nappe pile: a case study  |                               |
|         | from the Cuban suture     |                               |
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| **3:00  | **BREAK**                 |                               |
| -3:15** |                           |                               |
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|         |                           | **Hazards**                   |
|         |                           |                               |
|         |                           | **Moderator: Leslie Barker**  |
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| **3:30  | **Krebs M. et al:**       | **Joyce, J. and Santos, H.**: |
| -4:00** | Pressure-temperature-time | Impact of November 2003 rains |
|         | paths critically          | on hill slopes, embankments,  |
|         | constrain Cretaceous      | rock cuts, and ghuts in the   |
|         | subduction-zone dynamics  | BVI                           |
|         | in the Rio San Juan       |                               |
|         | complex (northern         |                               |
|         | Dominican Republic)       |                               |
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| **4:00  | **Maresch, W.V. and       | **Miller, S.**: GIS and       |
| -4:30** | Gerya**: Subduction zone  | Landslide Hazard Mapping in   |
|         | dynamics and              | St. Thomas Jamaica            |
|         | interpretation of         |                               |
|         | Caribbean fossil suture   |                               |
|         | zones                     |                               |
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| **4:30  | **Garcia-Casco, A. et     | **Joyce, J. and Velez, R.**:  |
| -5:00** | al:** Subduction events   | November 2004 mogote topple,  |
|         | in Cuba                   | Manati, Puerto Rico.          |
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| **5:00  | **Pindell, J.:**          |                               |
| -5:30** | Proto-Caribbean           |                               |
|         | slab-window origin for    |                               |
|         | the Caribbean Large       |                               |
|         | Igneous Province          |                               |
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| **Wed   | **K & T Stratigraphy**    | **Hazards, Environmental      |
| nesday, |                           | Geology, and Neotectonics**   |
| July    | **Moderator: Hernan       |                               |
| 20**    | Santos**                  | **Moderator: James Joyce**    |
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| **8:30  | **Brown, I.C. and         | **Barker, L.**: Water         |
| -9:00** | Mitchell, S.F.**:         | Resources Development in      |
|         | Stratigraphy of the       | Barbados: A Geological        |
|         | Cretaceous Succession in  | Perspective                   |
|         | the Benbow Inlier,        |                               |
|         | Jamaica                   |                               |
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| **9:00  | **Montgomery H. et al**:  | **Negron, O.**: Aquifer       |
| -9:30** | Cretaceous Radiolarians   | recharge thru sinkholes       |
|         | of the Washikemba         |                               |
|         | formation, Bonaire,       |                               |
|         | Netherlands Antilles      |                               |
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| **9:30- | **Mitchell, S.F.**:       | **Hasbrouck, J.C. and         |
| 10:00** | Stratigraphy of the       | Rodríguez, C.**: Use of       |
|         | Sunning Hill Inlier, SE   | seismic techniques to locate  |
|         | Jamaica: rudist faunas    | and define sinkholes          |
|         | upside down               |                               |
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| **      |                           |                               |
| BREAK** |                           |                               |
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| *       | **Garcia Senz, J. et      | **Trombley, R. B.**: Volcanic |
| *10:30- | al**: Upper Cretaceous    | Activity in all the Caribbean |
| 11:00** | Stratigraphy of the       | Plate Margins.                |
|         | Oriental Cordillera       |                               |
|         | (Dominican Republic)      |                               |
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| *       | **Martinez, M. et al**:   | **Weber, J et al.**           |
| *11:00- | Late Cretaceous           | Trinidad's mega-geomorphology |
| 11:30** | Charophytes from Puerto   | records neotectonic ups and   |
|         | Rico                      | downs on edge of the Gulf of  |
|         |                           | Paria pull-apart basin        |
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| *       | **Ramsook, R. and         | **Deville, E. et al**:        |
| *11:30- | Mitchell, S.F.**:         | Tectonic control of the       |
| 12:00** | Sedimentology and         | Barbados accretionary prism   |
|         | tectonic evolution of the | on the Orinoco turbidite      |
|         | Campanian to Paleocene    | system (Southern Caribbean)   |
|         | succession in northern    |                               |
|         | Blue Mountains, eastern   |                               |
|         | Jamaica                   |                               |
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| **12:00 | **LUNCH**                 |                               |
| -1:30** |                           |                               |
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|         | **K & T Stratigraphy**    | **Earthquakes, Tsunamis and   |
|         |                           | Geophysics**                  |
|         | **Moderator: John Weber** |                               |
|         |                           | **Moderator: Eugenio          |
|         |                           | Asencio**                     |
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| **1:30  | **Mitchell, S.**: Tidal   | **Velez, J. et al**: Unified  |
| -2:00** | deposits in the Kellitis  | Earthquake Catalogue for the  |
|         | Synthem (Maastrichtian)   | PR region                     |
|         | of the Central Inlier,    |                               |
|         | Jamaica                   |                               |
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| **2:00  | **Garcia Senz, J. and     | **Mueller C.S. et al**: USGS  |
| -2:30** | Calvo, J.P.**:            | Seismic Hazard Map for Puerto |
|         | Preliminary Description   | Rico and the US Virgin        |
|         | of a bed containing glass | Islands                       |
|         | spherules in the          |                               |
|         | bejucalito section        |                               |
|         | (oriental cordillera,     |                               |
|         | Dominican Republic). A    |                               |
|         | new possible K/T boundary |                               |
|         | layer                     |                               |
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| **2:30  | **Khan, S and Mitchell,   | **Miller S. and Degg, M.**: A |
| -3:00** | S**: The amorphous        | preliminary evaluation of     |
|         | mystery.                  | Tsunami Hazard and Risk in    |
|         |                           | Jamaica using a Geographical  |
|         |                           | Information System (GIS)      |
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| **      |                           |                               |
| BREAK** |                           |                               |
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| **3:30  | **James, E. and Mitchell, | **Gilbes, F. and Chiques,     |
| -4:00** | S.F.**: Comparison of the | G.:** Spectral                |
|         | Stratigraphy of the       | characterization of sandy     |
|         | Tertiary Limestone across | beaches in western Puerto     |
|         | Central Jamaica           | Rico                          |
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| **4:00  | **Martinez, M. et al**:   | **Jaramillo, L.G.:** Remote   |
| -4:30** | Paleoecological           | sensing evaluation of         |
|         | Distribution (Benthic     | regional chemistry and        |
|         | Foraminefera) along the   | element dispersion of         |
|         | Oligocene/Miocene         | porphyry copper deposits in   |
|         | boundary in southern      | the Silver Bell Mountains,    |
|         | Puerto Rico: local or     | Arizona                       |
|         | global implication?       |                               |
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| **4:30  | **Jain, S. and Collins,   | **Robinson, E. et al**:       |
| -5:00** | L.**: Paleo-productivity  | Identifying submarine slides  |
|         | in the Caribbean sea      | on Jamaica's southern island  |
|         | during closure of the     | slopes                        |
|         | Central American Seaway   |                               |
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| **5:00  |                           | **Meeting Standing Committee  |
| -5:30** |                           | of the Caribbean Conference:  |
|         |                           | Hosts for 2008?**             |
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| **Thur  |                           |                               |
| sday,** |                           |                               |
|         |                           |                               |
| **July  |                           |                               |
| 21**    |                           |                               |
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| **8:30  | **Closing Plenary         |                               |
| -9:00** | Session**                 |                               |
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|         | **Seismology**            | **Geology of the Nicoya       |
|         |                           | Complex**                     |
|         | **Moderators: Dan         |                               |
|         | McNamara and Christa G.   | **Moderator: Homer            |
|         | von Hillebrandt-Andrade** | Montgomery**                  |
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| **9:00  | **Wiggins Grandison,      | **Baumgartner,P.O. et al.**:  |
| -9:30** | M.**: Jamaican Seismicity | Remnants of Pacific Ocean     |
|         | & the Jamaica Seismograph | Floor: Jurassic-lower         |
|         | Network                   | Cretaceous radiolarites in    |
|         |                           | Central America and the       |
|         |                           | Caribbean                     |
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| **9:30- | **Pujols, R. et al.:**    | **Denyer,P. and Baumgartner,  |
| 10:00** | Past, present, and future | P.O.:** Nicoya Complex (Costa |
|         | of the seismology in the  | Rica)-a Cretaceous Plateau    |
|         | Dominican Republic        | containing Middle Jurassic to |
|         | Seismic.                  | Cretaceous radiolarite blocks |
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| *       | **von Hillebrandt-Andrade | **Flores, K. et al**:         |
| *10:00- | C. G. et al**: Seismic    | Pre-Campanian Terranes in     |
| 10:30** | monitoring in the         | Nicoya area (Costa Rica,      |
|         | northeastern Caribbean    | Middle America)               |
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| *       | **BREAK**                 |                               |
| *10:30- |                           |                               |
| 10:45** |                           |                               |
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| *       | **Lynch, L.**: Seizing    |                               |
| *11:00- | the opportunity to build  |                               |
| 11:30** | more resilient hazard     |                               |
|         | monitoring networks in    |                               |
|         | the eastern Caribbean.    |                               |
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| *       | **Camacho, E.**:          |                               |
| *11:30- | Earthquake monitoring in  |                               |
| 12:00** | Panama.                   |                               |
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| *       | **Cruz, G.:** Honduran    |                               |
| *12:00- | seismic stations:         |                               |
| 12:30** | necessity of enhancing    |                               |
|         | seismic monitoring in the |                               |
|         | Caribbean Region of       |                               |
|         | Central America           |                               |
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| **12:30 | **LUNCH**                 |                               |
| -2:00** |                           |                               |
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| **2:00  | **Meeting for USGS        |                               |
| -5:00** | Seismic Stations in the   |                               |
|         | Caribbean**               |                               |
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**Meeting Agenda, Seismology Plenary Session,**

**Thursday Afternoon, July 21, 2005**

2:00 Introduction and Project Overview

Dan McNamara -- USGS ANSS

2:20 Discussion

2:30 International Agreements

Jean Weaver -- USGS Reston

2:50 Discussion

3:00 Station Siting and Evaluation

Jack Odum -- USGS ANSS

3:20 Duscussion

3:30 Station Design and Installation: Engineering Overview

Bob Hutt -- USGS ASL

3:50 Discussion

4:00 Training and it\'s role in Operations and Maintenance

Gary Gyure --ASL Honeywell

4:20 Discussion

4:30 Data Flow to Local Institutions, the NEIC and NOAA

Dan McNamara -- USGS ANSS

4:50 Discussion