Martedì 17 Aprile 2018 alle ore 10:30 in Aula 2H Tatiana Izquierdo
terrà il seminario dal titolo:
"Floods in the southern Atacama Desert, as extraordinary as were thought?"
During the extraordinary hydro‐meteorological event that occurred in
March 24 - 26, 2015 more than 80 mm of rain fall in some areas of the
Atacama Region causing flashfloods that affected the whole Region. One
of the most damaged cities was Copiapó where more than 72% of the
urban area was affected. After the event the research group started to
work in the understanding of the Copiapó river system and the factors
that control floods in the city. The main goals of the COPIFLOOD
project are to study the flood hazard in the Copiapó basin and to
understand the hydrological behavior of the system during extreme
events using different records (instrumental, historical and
geological) and methodologies.
CV Tatiana Izquierdo - University of Atacama, Copiapó (Chile)
Tatiana Izquierdo is assistant professor in Copiapó (Chile) at the
University of Atacama, where she has focused her research on floods
and is part of a multidisciplinary research group involved in the
study of natural hazards, water resources, stratigraphy and
sedimentology. She obtained the PhD in Madrid (2011) in Environmental
Science and Technology with a thesis about hydrogeology of volcanic
islands and she worked in the Canaries, Azores and Galápagos.