Led by Raul R. Cordero (Universidad de Santiago), Jaime Pizarro (Universidad de Santiago), Francisco Fernandoy (Universidad Nacional Andres Bello, UNAB), Fabrice Lambert (Universidad Catolica, PUC), and Gino Casassa (Universidad de Magallanes, UMAG), an interdisciplinary team conducted in August-September 2016 a campaign aimed at sampling the Black Carbon (BC) content in the snow across a north-south transect of the Chilean Andes (from Valle Nevado 33° S, to Volcan Osorno 41° S). This campaign was conducted in the frame of a CONICYT-funded “Team Research Project” (Anillo) Preis ACT-1410, which aims to deliver a map of the BC content in the Andean cryosphere, highlighting impacted zones (useful for further studies on the effects of BC on glacier melting). The support of Penny Rowe (Universidad de Santiago) and Steve Neshyba (University of Puget Sound) on training the field team, is gratefully acknowledged.
Take a look at the Photo Book of the Campaign.
A similar campaign, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Universidad de Santiago was conducted from Putre 18° S, to Cajon del Maipo 33° S in July 2015.
