Francisco grew up in Central Chile, between the high Andes and agricultural fields, and his professional experience includes private companies, government agencies and research groups. For the last ten years, he has worked in Patagonia in collaboration with different interdisciplinary researchers and government institutions, examining the cryosphere and climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before joining SFS, Francisco implemented Long-Term Ecologic Network stations, measuring greenhouse gases (GHG) as a member of the Cape Horn International Centre (CHIC)<\/a> of the Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG). These stations evaluate ongoing changes in the region\u2019s hydroclimatic systems as well as Patagonian environmental responses. Francisco also was part of the Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n Gaia Ant\u00e1rtica (CIGA)<\/a> of UMAG, working as postdoctoral researcher in the project \u201cDevelopment of a prototype alert system to reduce the impact of glacier-related flood events (SAGAZ)\u201d. Currently collaborates with INACH (Chilean Antarctic Institute)<\/a> as a Researcher in understanding climate variability and its impacts on both glaciers and snow season in Patagonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Francisco is a civil engineer, geographer, practitioner of the path of Karate-Do and mountain climber who is passionate about science in Patagonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Francisco grew up in Central Chile, between the high Andes and agricultural fields, and his professional experience includes private companies, government agencies and research groups. For the last ten years, he has worked in Patagonia in collaboration with different interdisciplinary researchers and government institutions, examining the cryosphere and climate change. Before joining SFS, Francisco implemented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22480,"template":"","department":[49],"staff-type":[60],"class_list":["post-22479","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-academics","staff-type-faculty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/22479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/22479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=22479"},{"taxonomy":"staff-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-type?post=22479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}