Biografía

I am a glaciologist specializing in field observations and remotely sensed data. My main interest is to understand the relationship between glacier dynamics and climate variability, and how these changes affect the hydrological regime and the adaptive capacity of the population to climate change in the Andes.

Ph.D. Earth, Universe and Environmental Sciences
Université Grenoble Alpes (2015)
M.Sc. Earth Science and environment
Université de Nice, Sophia Antipolis (2010)
B.Sc. Geography
Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (2005)

 

Research interests.

My research focuses on understanding climate changes and variability through glacier response, with special attention to hydrological processes in high mountain basins. I also focused on estimating the climate risk, vulnerability, and adaptive capacities of the population facing climate change in the water sector. My work is based on the statistical analysis of time series captured by in situ and remote sensing observations.

 

Selected Publications

• State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean, World Meteorological Organization (WMO); 2021 (WMO- No. 1290). (World Meteorological Organization (wmo.int) https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=11178)
• New insights into the decadal variability in glacier volume of an iconic tropical ice-cap explained by the morpho-climatic context, Antisana, (0°29’ S, 78°09’ W); Cryosphere, 16, 4659–4677, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4659-2022, 2022
• State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean, World Meteorological Organization (WMO); 2020 (WMO- No. 1272). (World Meteorological Organization (wmo.int) https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10876)
• Multi-taxa colonization along the foreland of a vanishing equatorial glacier, ECOGRAPHY (https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05478)
• An optimized method to calculate the geodetic mass balance of mountain glaciers, J. Glaciol., 1–15, doi: 10.1017/jog.2018.79, 2018.
• A nonlinear statistical model for extracting a climatic signal from glacier mass balance measurements, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., doi:10.1029/2018JF004702, 2018.
• Glacier surface mass balance modeling in the inner tropics using a positive degree-day approach, Cryosph. Discuss., (June), 1–52, doi:10.5194/tc-2016-105, 2016.
• Slight mass loss revealed by reanalyzing glacier mass-balance observations on Glaciar Antisana 15α (inner tropics) during the 1995-2012 period, J. Glaciol., 62(231), 124–136, doi:10.1017/jog.2016.17, 2016.
• On the interest of positive degree-day models for mass balance modeling in the inner tropics, Cryosph. Discuss., 2637–2684, doi:10.5194/tcd-8-2637-2014, 2014.
• Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: A multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change, Cryosphere, 7(1), 81–102, doi:10.5194/tc-7-81-2013, 2013.