On Friday the 6th of October, geologist from the Chilenean Geological Survey (SERNAGEOMIN, Paulina Vasquez and Fernando Sepulveda Vasquez), from the UCN (Eduardo Campus), from the US (Tereca Jordan) and from Germany (Tibor Dunai, Benedikt Ritter, Volker Wennrich) organized a small meeting in Hornitos to discuss recent scientific progress in the area around the southern Río Loa and the Quillagua-Llamara basin.
On Friday the 16.09.2017 the Universidad Catolica del Norte (UCN) represented by the rector of the UCN Jorge Tabilo Álvarez and the CRC1211, represented by Prof. Tibor Dunai ceremonial signed the Memorandum of Understanding between the UCN and CRC1211. Both parties are looking forward for a prolonged scientific collaboration and a fruitful exchange between Chilean and German scientists.
In September 2017 we carried out our second field trip to the Atacama Desert to investigate the local hydrological situation at the Salar de Llamara and the Salar de Huasco.
Investigations at the Salar de Llamara started in the preliminary phase of the CRC 1211. Isotope analyses of pond waters from 2014 show that the isotopic evolution of the ponds can be reproduced by evaporation models, but further parameters such as the isotopic composition of atmospheric vapor and the influence of wind, need to be characterized more precisely.
... with focus on the installation of weather stations, the realization of irrigation experiments, and the installation of dust sampling devices. During the second field campaign in September-October 2017, PhD student Franko Arenas Díaz from Universidad Catolica del Norte (UCN – Antofagasta) accompanied Z2 and Z3. We were able to successfully set up and configure the first transect of weather stations, which consists of five weather stations stretching from the coast along the Rio Loa valley to the Andes.
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| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tony Reimann Institute of Geography | University of Cologne Zülpicher Str. 45 | 50674 Cologne +49 (0)221 470-1724 | t.reimann@uni-koeln.de |
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| Managing Director: Christian Tiede Institute of Geology and Mineralogy | University of Cologne Zülpicher Str. 49b | 50674 Cologne +49 (0)221 470-89833 | christian.tiede@uni-koeln.de |
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| Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christine Heim Institute of Geology and Mineralogy | University of Cologne Zülpicher Str. 49a | 50674 Cologne +49 (0)221 470-6818 | christine.heim@uni-koeln.de |
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| Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Benedikt Ritter Institute of Geology and Mineralogy | University of Cologne Zülpicher Str. 49b | 50674 Cologne +49 (0)221 470-89868 | benedikt.ritter@uni-koeln.de |
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| Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Quandt Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants | University of Bonn Meckenheimer Allee 170 | 53115 Bonn +49 (0)228 73-3315 | quandt@uni-bonn.de |
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| Webmaster: Tim Schlüter Institute of Geography | University of Cologne Otto-Fischer-Str. 4 | 50674 Cologne +49 (0)221 470-3735 | webmaster@sfb1211.de |
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