Two works at EGU 2025

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

During the week of April 28th to May 2nd, 2025, I participated in the 2025 European Geosciences Union ( ) 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:

. 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 collaboration was only possible thanks to funding provided by ANID through the Fondecyt Regular project 1212071, which allowed the colaboration with (U. Adolfo Ibañez) and Daniel Nuñez, a student from the in U. de Chile.

Dr. Zambrano-Bigiarini at EGU 2025

. 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 and the Fondecyt Regular project 1212071.

Héctor Garcés F. at EGU 2025

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

Dr. Zambrano-Bigiarini, Dr. Pizarro and an Italian colleague at EGU 2025

Héctor Garcés F., a Chilean student in Europe, Dr. Zambrano-Bigiarini, Dr. Pizarro at EGU 2025

Fondecyt Regular 1212071 | Dr. Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

Two works at EGU 2025