AMIGO FRIEND

AMIGO LAC (Latin American and Caribbean) FRIEND

The FRIEND/AMIGO working group is a regional branch of the global FRIEND programme. It aims to generate regional databases, build a global network for collaborative research and data exchange, conduct research on regional water resources, water-related disasters (such as floods and droughts), global change and water cycle, and promote water education.

FRIEND/AMIGO supports the IHP group dedicated to the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region in setting up regional networks for hydrological data analysis by sharing data, knowledge and techniques.

Main research question :

How can better meteorological and climatological information enhance our understanding of drought evolution in LAC region ?

May 2022 - Participation at the XI th Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS 2022), Montpellier, France
May 2022 - Workshop of Fluvial Remote Sensing: from the diagnostic reach scale to the large-scale planning, Chile.
December 2021 - Collaboration with the IFI group of IHP UNESCO in a workshop on concepts and modeling in flood management in LAC.
July 2021 - Global scale food assessment using Sentinel-1 data Copernicus Program.
June 2021 - Workshop of Spatial Remote Sensing and Hydrology.
April 2021 - XIV Meeting of National Committees and Focal Points of the IHP_LAC.

April 2022 - Award of a Fondecyt project (1221091) Seasonal and inter annual variability of inherent and apparent optical properties in lakes and reservoirs in south-central Chile: Implications for bio-optical modeling and water quality.

Budget: 250 000 € for 3 years (2022-2025)

January 2022 - Summer School, Postgraduate School "Hydrology in Andean watersheds".

Regional coordinator

AMIGO LAC FRIEND

Dr. Santiago YEPEZ - Department of Forest Management and Environment · University of Concepción, Chile

Contact : syepez@udec.cl

FRIEND-Water Regional groups

AMIGO LAC (Latin American and Caribbean) FRIEND

Regional coordinator

AMIGO LAC FRIEND