Two works at EGU 2025

During the week of April 28th to May 2nd, 2025, I participated in the 2025 European Geosciences Union (EGU 2025) Conference, held in Vienna, Austria. This is the most important European conference in the field of Earth Sciences, held annually and attracting researchers from all over the world.

On this occasion, I presented a poster and participated as a co-author in an oral presentation:

1) How well do gridded products represent soil moisture signatures in natural ecosystems during precipitation events?. This works presents the first South American evaluation of various gridded soil moisture products, which were compared with in situ measurements available in four Chilean watersheds since 2021. The poster is available at this link. This collaboration was only possible thanks to funding provided by ANID through the Fondecyt Regular project 1212071, which allowed the colaboration with Dr. Mauricio Galleguillos (U. Adolfo Ibañez) and Daniel Nuñez, a student from the Master Programme in Territorial Magement of Natural Resources in U. de Chile.

2) Development of a Flood Early Warning System for Critical Catchments in Southern Chile. In this work, Héctor Garcés, a thesis student of the Civil Engineering degree at Universidad de La Frontera, presented to the international community the development of a prototype flood early warning system, applied to critical catchments in the Araucanía region. This prototype was developed by the student as part of his undergraduate thesis and during a professional internship at the General Water Directorate of the Araucanía Region. It should be noted that this work was an oral presentation, which is an important exception at this very prestigious international event. Normally, only academics, doctoral students, postdocs, and master’s thesis students present at this conference. This reflects the high quality of the work being conducted by thesis student Héctor Garcés. This work also received ANID funding through the Chile-China international collaboration project NSFC 190018 and the Fondecyt Regular project 1212071.

Finally, during this conference I was able to discuss possibilities of collaboration with Dr. Alonso Pizarro from the Univeridad Diego Portales, and to talk about a joint article with Dr. Oscar Baez-Villanueva from Ghent University (Belgium), and with Dr. Yangbo Chen from Sun Yat-sen University (China, co-PI of the international collaboration project NSFC190018), among others.