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Marcelo Arturo Somos Valenzuela

Profesor Asociado

Universidad de la Frontera

Temuco, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Water resources engineer with more than ten years of experience, whose work explores the impacts of climate change in hydrology to increase adaptation and resilience.

Educación

  •  Civil Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. Estados Unidos, 2014
  •  Water Resources, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. Chile, 2011
  •  Agricultural Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2006

Experiencia Académica

  •   PostDoc Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

    austin, Estados Unidos

    2014 - 2015

  •   PostDoc Full Time

    UNIV.OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

    Amherst, Chile

    2015 - 2016

  •   Research Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIV.OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

    Amherst, Estados Unidos

    2016 - 2017

  •   Profesor Asistente Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA

    Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Forestales

    Temuco, Chile

    2017 - 2022

  •   Profesor Asociado Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA

    Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Medio Ambiente

    Temuco, Chile

    2022 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Técnico DARH Full Time

    Direccion General de Aguas

    Quillota/Chillan, Chile

    2007 - 2009

Premios y Distinciones

  •   Premio Universidad de Concepción

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Chile, 2007

    Máxima distincion de esa casa de estudios para estudiantes de pregrado

  •   Beca BIO Conicyt-Fulbright

    COMISION NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION CIENTIFICA Y TECNOLOGICA

    Chile, 2008

    Beca de doctoradio Igualdad de oportunidades


 

Article (36)

Brief communication: An ice-debris avalanche in the Nupchu Valley, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, eastern Nepal
Advancing South American Water and Climate Science through Multidecadal Convection-Permitting Modeling
Earthquake-induced landslides coupled to fluvial incision in Andean Patagonia: Inferring their effects on landscape at geological time scales
Effects of Tectonic Setting and Hydraulic Properties on Silent Large-Scale Landslides: A Case Study of the Zhaobishan Landslide, China
Multi-wing butterfly effects on catastrophic rockslides
Small outbursts into big disasters: Earthquakes exacerbate climate-driven cascade processes of the glacial lakes failure in the Himalayas
Early Estimation of Tomato Yield by Decision Tree Ensembles
Extreme climate and tectonic controls on the generation of a large-scale, low-frequency debris flow
Largest scale successful real-time evacuation after the Wenchuan earthquake in China: lessons learned from the Zengda gully giant debris flow disaster
No Country for Old Men. Assessing Socio-Spatial Relationships Between Air Quality Perceptions and Exposures in Southern Chile
Patagonian Andes Landslides Inventory: The Deep Learning's Way to Their Automatic Detection
Revisiting glacier mass-balance sensitivity to surface air temperature using a data-driven regionalization
Understanding Landslide Susceptibility in Northern Chilean Patagonia: A Basin-Scale Study Using Machine Learning and Field Data
Unveiling Spatial Patterns of Exposure and Risk Perception to Air Pollution: A Case Study in Chilean Patagonia
A comparative machine learning approach to identify landslide triggering factors in northern Chilean Patagonia
Climate change refugia for glaciers in Patagonia
Daily Patterns of River Herring (<i>Alosa</i> spp.) Spawning Migrations: Environmental Drivers and Variation among Coastal Streams in Massachusetts
Debris flow event on Osorno volcano, Chile, during summer 2017: new interpretations for chain processes in the southern Andes
Ex Post Analysis of Water Supply Demand in an Agricultural Basin by Multi-Source Data Integration
New insights into the failure mechanism and dynamic process of the Boli landslide, China
An effectiveness evaluation method for debris flow control engineering for cascading hydropower stations along the Jinsha River, China
Evaluating Multiple WRF Configurations and Forcing over the Northern Patagonian Icecap (NPI) and Baker River Basin
Rainfall-Induced Landslides forecast using local precipitation and global climate indexes
The mudflow disaster at Villa Santa Lucia in Chilean Patagonia: understandings and insights derived from numerical simulation and postevent field surveys
Response time to flood events using a social vulnerability index (ReTSVI)
Implementation of a vector-based river network routing scheme in the community WRF-Hydro modeling framework for flood discharge simulation
Looking beyond wildlife: using remote cameras to evaluate accuracy of gridded snow data
Spatiotemporal Evaluation of Simulated Evapotranspiration and Streamflow over Texas Using the WRF-Hydro-RAPID Modeling Framework
Towards Real-Time Continental Scale Streamflow Simulation in Continuous and Discrete Space
Use of WRF-hydro over the Northeast of the US to estimate water budget tendencies in small watersheds
Modeling a glacial lake outburst flood process chain: the case of Lake Palcacocha and Huaraz, Peru
Assessing downstream flood impacts due to a potential GLOF from Imja Tsho in Nepal
Predicting outflow induced by moraine failure in glacial lakes: the Lake Palcacocha case from an uncertainty perspective
Changes in Imja Tsho in the Mount Everest region of Nepal
Promoting science-based, community-driven approaches to climate change adaptation in glaciated mountain ranges=> HiMAP,
Glacial lakes of the Hinku and Hongu valleys, Makalu Barun National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal

Proyecto (13)

Andean glacier-climatic interactions under solar radiation modification geoengineering [SRMG]
Changing landscapes: From glaciers to lakes
I Put A Spell On You: Persistence Of Dry Spells Over Central Chile (30o To 42 S) From 1980 To 2022
Modeling Mountain streamflow and hydroclimate-elevation feedbacks in the Andean Araucania of Chile
Si el río no va al laboratorio, el laboratorio va al río: Medición móvil de isotopos para caracterizar las fuentes de escorrentía en cuencas de montaña
Socio-hydrological Agent-based Modeling To Assess Future Water Conflicts At Basin Scale
Trajectories of glacier volume in the Sierra del Brujo, Central Chile (34°30’S) under the RCP8.5 scenario using reanalysis of multidecadal geodetic mass balance and coupled atmosphere-cryosphere modeling
Cascade landslide-mudflow hazards and risk-based resilient alleviation across different scales
High-Resolution Snow Glacier Runoff Simulations Over the Baker River Basin in the Chilean Patagonia
Slowing the Flow for Climate Resilience (SFCR)=> Reducing Vulnerability to Extreme Flood and Drought Events
CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT
EarthCube Building Blocks=> Integrating Discrete and Continuous Data
MODELACION Y EVALUACION DE SISTEMAS ELECTRO EOLICOS Y FOTOVOLTAICOS PARA EL BOMBEO DE AGUA CON FINES DE RIEGO

Review (1)

Sphagnum mosses, the impact of disturbances and anthropogenic management actions on their ecological role in CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes generated in peatland ecosystems
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Marcelo Somos

Profesor Asociado

Ciencias Forestales

Universidad de la Frontera

Temuco, Chile

3
Ivo Fustos

Investigador

Departamento de Ingenieria en Obras Civiles

Universidad de La Frontera

Temuco, Chile

3
DIEGO RIVERA

Full Professor

Universidad del Desarrollo

Las Condes, Chile

1
Alfonso Fernandez

Profesor Titular

Geografía

Universidad de Concepción

Concepcion, Chile

1
Camilo Souto

Profesor Asistente

Recursos Hídricos

Universidad de Concepción

Chillán, Chile

1
Alvaro Hofflinger

Profesor Asociado

Facultad de Educación y Humanidades

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA

Temuco, Chile

1
Inés Rodríguez

Directora de Investigacion/Académica

Obras Civiles y Geología

Universidad Católica de Temuco

Temuco, Chile

1
Sebastián Ibarra

Profesor Asistente

Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

Universidad de Aysén

Coyhaique, Chile