The Mountain Research Hub
at Universidad de Concepción

An interdisciplinary endeavor developing knowledge on high‑elevation environments, understanding climate–cryosphere interactions and hydroclimatic fluctuations across scales.

Research

Active Research grants

Evaluating stratospheric aerosol injections to stabilize free-atmosphere precursors of mountain cryosphere tipping points and impacts
Funding: REFLECTIVE
Some Like It Hot ... or Not? Examining Climatic Controls on the Ice along Active Volcanic landscapes.
Funding: ANID‑FONDECYT
Submarine fjord relief‑forming processes: Geomorphological Evolution in an environment of glacial Advance in the Southern Patagonian Icefield (GEA‑SPI).
Funding: ANID‑FONDECYT
Programa Ciencia Interdisciplinaria para las Montañas de los Andes del Sur (CIMASur).
Funding: Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Desarrollo, Universidad de Concepción
Andean climatic response to solar geoengineering
Funding: DEGREES MODELLING FUND

Current Techniques & Methods

Glacier
CLIMATE ↕ MOUNTAIN ↕ WATER
Glacier mass balance
Glacier mass balance
Drone mapping
Drone mapping
Ice/Snow coring
Ice / Snow coring
Water hydrochemistry
Water hydrochemistry
Numerical modeling
Numerical modeling
Hydroclimatic sensors
Hydroclimatic sensors
Ground penetrating radar
Ground penetrating radar
Remote sensing and GIS
Remote sensing & GIS
Cosmogenic nuclides
Cosmogenic nuclides
GNSS surveys
GNSS surveys
Snowpits
Snowpits
Statistical data analysis
Statistical data analysis
Team

Research Team

... but how many things may we not contemplate
on the surface, how many charming details are
we not permitted to perceive, how many laws
are not revealed to our eyes, if we know how to look!

—Élisée Reclus, Histoire d'une montagne

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Alfonso Fernández

Full Professor – Principal Investigator

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Limbert Torrez

Postdoctoral Researcher / Climate Dynamics & Interventions

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Benjamin Goffin

Postdoctoral Researcher / Satellite Data Applications – Precipitation – Wildfires

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Cristofer Jiménez

Postdoctoral Researcher / Climate & Aerosols

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Sofía Navas

Doctoral Researcher / Glacial Geomorphology, paleoclimate

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Bastián Poncell

Doctoral Researcher / Glaciers, climate, volcanoes

Contact

Do you want to join the team? email to Alfonso Fernández (alfernandez@udec.cl)

There are several ways to join our team. The easiest route is as a student in one of the undergraduate or graduate programs where Alfonso Fernández teaches, advises, and/or co‑advises students:

Geography undergraduate program
Geology undergraduate program
Masters in Geographical Analysis
Ph.D. in Estudios Territoriales del Sur Global
Ph.D. in Geological Sciences

For interested Postdoctoral Scholars, there are several funding sources that have supported these Fellows in our group, including the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Chilean Science Council, the Universidad de Concepción Postdoctoral Program, and some of our research grants.