Keynote Speakers

Our conference will greatly benefit from presentations given by a selected group of keynote speakers who will provide in-depth views of general topics and interdisciplinary themes. They also will highlight exiting new research areas as well as new method of exploration in Geosciences specially focused in the Andean region.

Name Affiliation Presentation (preliminary, working titles)
Achim Bräuning University of Erlangen, Germany Andean climate history during the Holocene
Reinaldo Charrier Department of Geology, Universidad de Chile, Chile Andean Tectonics
René Garreau Department of Gephysics, Universidad de Chile, Chile The role of the Andes on South American Climate
Carmela Garzione University of Rochester, USA Long-term climate change in the Subandean belt of northern Argentina and southern Bolivia
Gabriel Gonzalez Univ. Catolica del Norte Antofagasta, Chile Tectonics,seismicity and earthquake hazards in the Andean regions
Georg Kaser University of Innsbruck, Austria Tropical glaciers-climate
Suzanne Mahlberg-Kay Cornell University, USA Geophysical properties of the Puna plateau crust and mantle
Michael Richter University of Erlangen, Germany Impact of natural disturbance regimes on Andean ecosystems
Christoph Schneider Aachen, Germany Extra-tropical westerlies and associated glacier mass balance variations
Robert Tilling US Geological Survey,USA Andean Volcanism and associated Hazards
Ricardo Villalba IANIGLIA, Mendoza, Argentina Snow,Ice and Environment in the American Cordillera Transect
Francoise Vimeux IRD, France Andean ice cores and what we have learn from this archive in terms of climate mechanisms
Günter Blöschl Austria, not confirmed  
Gino Casassa Chile, not confirmed  
Minard Hall Ecuador, not confirmed  
Hugo Moreno Chile, not confirmed  
Matthew Pritchard USA, not confirmed  
Ronald Smith USA, not confirmed  
Manfred Strecker Germany, not confirmed