In May, it will be four months since Dr. Geoffrey Schladow arrived in Chile. The current Director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) at the University of California Davis, moved to Valdivia in February to work with Fundación Chile Lagos Limpios (ChLL) and the Universidad Austral on the conservation of the North Patagonian lakes.
Chile Lagos Limpios es una fundación que busca preservar los lagos norpatagónicos, previniendo su contaminación, garantizando la salud y disponibilidad de estos cuerpos de agua. Se enfocan en 23 lagos, realizando trabajos de monitoreo, educación ambiental y comunicación. Todo este trabajo lo hacen bajo una colaboración pública-privada, basándose en la experiencia de descontaminación del lago Tahoe, en California, Estados Unidos. ¿Por qué es importante proteger los lagos? ¿Cuáles son sus amenazas? ¿En qué se parece el lago Tahoe con los lagos nor-patagónicos?
We talked to Lovell "Tu" Jarvis, UC Davis' Faculty Director of Global Centers for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Geoffrey Schladow, founding Director of Tahoe Environmental Research Center at UC Davis, to learn about their experience as part of Chile's Clean Lakes Board of Directors, foundation of international collaboration, that works in the preservation, sustainable development and resilience to the climate change of the lakes that are located in the north of the Chilean Patagonia.
Summary of the article written by Richard García, of El Mercurio newspaper, about a research related to huemul deer conducted for the Latin American Program of One Health Institute at UC Davis in southern Chile.
Two invasive trash dumps surround Conchalí’s elementary school “Sol Naciente”. For years the municipality has tried to eradicate them, but the garbage that is removed from the sector soon returns. "We have an environment that is extremely damaged and it's hard for us to come study," says Sofía Vega, a 5th grade Sol Naciente student. Eventually, the director of the school, Amaranta Arenas, approached the University of California, Davis in Chile (UC Davis Chile) to see how they could help solve this problem.
The use of this technique has become an excellent alternative to keep the development of different pests at bay. However, climate change opens up a number of challenges in its use. As follows, Jim Farrar, expert from the University of California, Davis, examines this point in greater depth. Text in Spanish since the third page, in English. Source: El Mercurio Campo.
Among adults deaths are very low, but almost all have damage, from a leaf until entire tree tops. Scientists have not yet determined the disease causes. By Richard Garcia (text in Spanish)