The activity is part of the Regular Fondecyt project, in which the academic participates as a co-researcher, which studies the phenomenon of urban heat islands and how they affect climate change and the welfare of people in Chile.
Geologist José Lattus traveled to Salta in northern Argentina at the end of May as part of his graduate project, "Dynamics of an highland salt flat through electromagnetic scattering models using orbital radars".
Francisco Zambrano project director, and Dylan Craven alternate director, with researchers and research assistants from public and private universities and international organizations, developed and launched ODES, the Chilean Drought Observatory for Agriculture and Biodiversity.
Researchers, assistants from the Hémera Center, and academics from the School of Forestry Engineering (Waldo Pérez, Leonardo Durán, Paulina Vidal, Idania Briceño, Jesica Garrido, Natalia Tapia and Benjamín Castro) will develop the project "Characterization of terrestrial ecosystems to prioritize areas for landscape restoration in the Province of Cardenal Caro".
The scientific publication "Recovery of Water Quality and Detection of Algal Blooms in Lake Villarrica through Landsat Satellite Images and Monitoring Data" generated the interest of NASA, who developed a note on algae growth in Lake Villarrica and the methodology used in the study led by Lien Rodríguez-López with the collaboration of Iongel Durán.