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[Contacts]
- Stéphane Guédron: stephane.guedron@ird.fr
- Alejandra Domic:
aid4@psu.edu - François De Vleeschouwer: fdevleeschouwer@cima.fcen.uba.ar
Highlights:
- Current and historical water resources characterization.
- Historical reconstruction of climate & anthropogenic pressure.
- Development of adaptation or resiliencies of the ecosystem.
Abstract:
Workpackage 2.3 aims at creating a participative observation network of water resources. It will rely on both in situ instrumental measurements with communities, and remote sensing for the current water resources characterization. In parallel, historical reconstructing of climate and anthropogenic pressure will be studied using environmental archives by combining various approaches such as palynology, microcharcoal, e-DNA, sedimentology, dust flux reconstruction, elemental and isotope reconstruction and paleoclimate tracers. The final product of this research on environmental archives will allow for documenting historical droughts and wet periods (water table or precipitation), adaptation or resiliencies of the ecosystem, and the evolution of anthropogenic pressure including the mining impact.
Associated projects:
PaleoBol: This research program aims to reconstruct, in high resolution, over the last five to ten millennia, the history of changes in (i) climate (variations in rainfall and lake levels), (ii) ecology (vegetation, agriculture) and (iii) anthropogenic impacts (pastoral, urban and mining activities) on the Andean Altiplano (Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina).
Contact: Stéphane Guédron: stephane.guedron@ird.fr
Paleoecol:
Aims to reconstruction vegetation dynamics during the late Holocene and assess the role of climate variability and human use on vegetation turnover. A particular emphasis is given to high Andean peatlands as they are vulnerable ecosystems and play an important role on carbon sequestration and regulate the hydrological cycle.
Contact: Alejandra Domic: alejandradomic@gmail.com
A-DUST: This research program aims to reconstruct the past atmospheric dispersion and deposition of dust and contaminants in the Andes (from 50 to 15°S).
Contact: François De Vleeschouwer: fdevleeschouwer@cima.fcen.uba.ar