Current and past research projects of Lab-MoRH. Our work spans mountain hydrology, glaciers and their changes, natural hazards, and water resources in the Andes and other mountain regions.
Current projects
- 2025–2027 · Co-PI: SAGAZ alert system to reduce the impact of glacier-related flood events. National Geographic Society
- 2024–2026 · PI: Monitoring of the Sollipulli Glacier (university consultancy). Water Resources Bureau (DGA), Chile
- 2023–2026 · PI: Picarro L2140-i water-isotope analyzer (¹⁸O, deuterium) and continuous water sampler. ANID FONDEQUIP, Chile
- 2023–2026 · PI: Modeling mountain streamflow and hydroclimate–elevation feedbacks in the Andean Araucanía of Chile. Fondecyt Regular, Chile
Past projects
- 2023–2025 · Co-PI: Socio-hydrological agent-based modeling to assess future water conflicts at basin scale. Fondecyt Regular, Chile
- 2023–2025 · Co-PI: I put a spell on you: persistence of dry spells over central Chile (30° to 42° S) from 1980 to 2022. Fondecyt Regular, Chile
- 2022–2025 · Co-PI: Climate and land use controls on nutrient limitation and resource export from Patagonian headwater streams. Fondecyt Regular, Chile
- 2023–2024 · Co-PI: Andean glacier–climate interactions under solar radiation modification geoengineering. DECIMALS grant, The Degrees Initiative
- 2022–2024 · PI: Cold-Blooded: drivers of climate change refugia for glaciers and streamflow responses. Anillo grant, ANID, Chile
- 2022–2024 · International collaborator: Advancing domestic and international water management capabilities with a global daily snow cover and albedo product. NASA Earth Science Applications: Water Resources
- 2021–2025 · Associated researcher: PATSER, Patagonia Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research, Patagonian Ecosystem Research Center (CIEP). Regional Research Center grant, ANID, Chile
- 2021–2024 · Associated researcher: Water Technology Consortium CoTH2O: integrated management of water resources. CORFO, Chile
- 2022–2023 · PI: Changing landscapes: from glaciers to lakes. National Geographic Society
- 2022–2023 · Associated researcher: SAGAZ: prediction system for glacial lake outburst floods. FONDEF, Chile
- 2022–2023 · PI: Early warning system for drought management of groundwater–surface water systems in Chilean Patagonia. ANID drought emergency funds, Chile
- 2020–2023 · Co-I: Trajectories of glacier volume in the Sierra del Brujo, central Chile (34°30′S), under RCP8.5 using multidecadal geodetic mass balance and coupled atmosphere–cryosphere modeling. Fondecyt Regular, Chile
- 2021–2022 · Co-I: Variation of CO₂ and CH₄ fluxes and their environmental drivers associated with Sphagnum magellanicum extraction in a north Patagonian peat bog. DIUFRO, Universidad de La Frontera
- 2020–2022 · Co-I: SmartFruit-ALC: smart solutions for family fruit-growing systems in Latin America and the Caribbean under climate change. FONTAGRO
- 2019–2022 · PI: Cascade landslide–mudflow hazards and risk-based resilient alleviation across different scales. CONICYT (Chile) – National Natural Science Foundation of China
- 2020–2021 · Associated researcher: Technology dissemination program on efficient water use in rural drinking-water systems (APR). FIC, Regional Government of La Araucanía
- 2020–2021 · PI: Proyecto Mahuida: citizen science in the Araucanía mountain region. Ministry of Education, Chile
- 2018–2020 · PI: High-resolution snow and glacier runoff simulations over the Baker River basin, Chilean Patagonia. Fondecyt Iniciación, Chile
- 2014–2015 · PI: Evaluation of Microsoft technologies in hydrology research. Microsoft Research
