Oral presentation at EGU 2018
During the second week of April 2018, I made an oral presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2018 in Vienna (Austria), the most important scientific event of Earth Sciences in Europe.
The work was entitled Using remote sensing estimates of precipitation and evapotranspiration to assess the spatial characteristics of Chilean megadrought (EGU2018-11460). It analises the suitability of the combined use of state-of-the-art satellite-based precipitation (CHIRPS) and potential evapotranspiration (MOD16A2) estimates to characterise the spatial distribution of the so called “Chilean megadrought”, which has affected the central-southern territory of Chile (29ºS-46ºS) during the last decade.
In addition, I participated as co-author in the following three works presented at the same conference:
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Assessment of water yield under global change scenarios in a Mediterranean rainfed watershed dominated by exotic tree plantations. [EGU2018-12036].
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The CAMELS-CL dataset: catchment attributes and meteorology for large sample studies – Chile dataset. [EGU2018-2374].
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Evaluating satellite-based rainfall estimates to support low flow modelling in data scarce Andean catchments at different latitudes of Chile. [EGU2018-18702].
The first two works are product of the interdisciplinary collaboration at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), while the last work summarise the MSc thesis carried out by Hamish Hann (Institute for Technology and Resources Management (ITT), TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences, Köln, Alemania) during his visiting period at Temuco (first semester 2017).
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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of La Frontera. I hold a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Trento (Italy) and completed postdoctoral training at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. I have more than 20 years of experience in water resources research and have previously served as an Associate Researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 and as a member of the Earth Sciences Assessment Group of the Chilean National Research and Development Agency (ANID).
My research lies at the interface of hydrology, data science, and environmental sciences, with a particular focus on the use of gridded datasets and open-source tools to investigate droughts, extreme events, and water-related impacts of global change.
I work across spatial and temporal scales to improve the understanding of catchment-scale hydrological processes and to translate this knowledge into operational modelling, forecasting, and early-warning systems that support robust environmental decision-making.
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