Soil erosion/sediment and its control; Watershed management; Watershed hydrology; Surface and groundwater Hydrology; Evaluation, control and mitigation of agriculture non point source pollution; Vulnerability and risk analysis

In the last three years, people prepared and emerged from the Technological Center of Environmental Hydrology of the U. de Talca, has been achieved, in the first instance, to carry out postgraduate studies in other universities. Later they have positioned themselves in various companies and institutions. Thus, for example, the candidate for Doctor Francisco Balocchi, is currently a researcher for the Arauco Group in the Bioforest company and in forest hydrological issues; Dr. in Water Resources Claudia Sangüesa is a researcher at the University of Talca; Dr. Rodrigo Valdés, is a researcher for the North American company Montgomery on hydrogeological issues; The Master in Water Resources Carolina Morales, works at the Forest Institute on forest hydrological issues.
Also from the center and in collaboration with the University of Chile, the training of researchers at the University of Arizona has been promoted, through an agreement, among which are Felipe Pérez (Ministry of Public Works) and Mauricio Vera (consulting company), both with origin in the U. de Talca; and Héctor Venegas, U. Andrés Bello and Luis de la Fuente, U. de Concepción, studying for Ms. Of Science at the U. of Arizona, in hydrological issues.

During the 2018-2020 period, the dissemination activities to other productive sectors of the country are varied. In this sense, the participation in the IX Copsa Congress called “National Congress of Concessions: We enlarge Chile” stands out, where the Keynote speaker function in the climate change panel was highlighted. This fact made it possible to convey to the concession companies the need to carry out an adequate management of water resources in Chile. Various dissemination activities have also been carried out in the forestry sector, especially with regard to the relation between forest mass and water availability. This has allowed large companies as well as institutions in the sector to notice the need to investigate in these lines to provide security and sustainability to production processes.
During the same period, it was awarded the Unesco Chair in Surface Hydrology, a chair that has allowed countless dissemination events to be held on water resources, including 3 seminars (2019-2020) with both national and international researchers. In this same framework, a seminar and a course related to the problem of erosion and sedimentation were organized in Quito, Ecuador, events that were organized by the National Water Secretariat of that country.
In the case of dissemination, it was organized and exhibited at the launch of the Unesco book "Background of the relationship between forest mass and water availability in Chile", of which this group is the author, a launch that was made with the Future Commission of the Senate .
On the other hand, it has participated in more than 60 national and international events, on issues of surface hydrology, forest hydrology and soil conservation, raising the need to know the water resource in Chile and contribute to their research.
Finally, we have been invited 6 times to present to different parliamentary committees, both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of Chile during the same time.