2024 Pathways Cohort

Cameron Blumhardt

University of New Mexico

Research Topic: Conceptual mapping of relationships and roles in communities related to watershed management.

Research Area: Azuay & Cuenca, Ecuador

Jonathan Burton

University of Colorado – Denver

Research Topic: interdisciplinary research on glacier lake outburst flood (GLOF) hazards and vulnerability in the Aysen region of Chile.

Research Area: Patagonia, Chile

Kate Cullen

University of Berkeley

Research Topic: Co-development of household water insecurity survey with three local community partners in the Maipo River Basin in central Chile.

Research Area: Santiago, Chile

Samuel Feldblum

University of California – Los Angeles

Research Topic: Political ecology of droughts in Chile’s Petorca province.

Research Area: Santiago, Chile

Casey Iwamoto

Mississippi State University

Research Topic: Dissolved oxygen cycling in the Cerro Dantas Wildlife Refuge.

Research Area: Heredia, Costa Rica

Atlin Johnson

University of New Mexico

Research Topic: Systems dynamics modeling of dairy systems.

Research Area: Los Lagos, Chile

Ariel Quintanilla Magaña

University of Rhode Island

Research Topic: Ecosystem management in transboundary regions in Latin America: water governance related to management of mangrove systems.

Research Area: Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador

Sarah Sorensen

University of Arkansas

Research Topic: Influence of hydrogeomorphology on river food webs.

Research Area: Valdivia, Chile

Millie Spenser

University of Colorado

Research Topic: Uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) optical and thermal analysis of the glaciers on the Nevados de Chillán volcanic complex.

Research Area: Concepción, Chile

Kritan Subedi

University of New Mexico

Research Topic: Water movement within a micro-basin using stable isotope analysis and hydrological modeling,

Research Area: Los Lagos, Chile

Mariana Webb

University of Nevada-Reno

Research Topic: Impacts of atmospheric rivers on flooding and influences of land use change.

Research Area: Valparaiso, Chile

Emmanuel Acurio

Universidad de Cuenca

Research Topic: Environmental Regional Change

María Augusta Bermeo

Universidad de Cuenca

Research Topic: Sustainable Water Management in the Andes

Eylin Milagros Sanchez Callirgos

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Research topic: Seasonal variability and water supply of different altered high Andean wetland systems

Patricio Luna

Universidad de Cuenca

Research Topic: Hydrological modelling and forecasting

Stalin Guamán

Universidad de Cuenca

Research Topic: Tracer-aided modeling, wildfires and hydrology, and hydrology process scaling

Paola Montenegro

Universidad de Cuenca & Universidad del Azuay

Research Topic: Hydrological connectivity of mountain landscapes: soil, lakes and rivers. Ecosystem services monitoring; water and gender

Santiago Núñez

Universidad de Cuenca & Universidad del Azuay

Research Topic: Climate change, Hydrology

Dalma Orellana

Gent University and IDHRICA Universidad de Cuenca

Research Topic: Restoration Ecology and Ecophysiology of Tropical Andean Forests in Ecuador

Lorena Orellana

Universidad de Cuenca & Universidad del Azuay

Research Topic: Spatial analysis, remote sensing, climate

Samanta Ríos

Universidad del Azuay

Research Topic:: Ecology and Behavior of Native Bees in the Neotropics

Verónica Rodas

Universidad de Cuenca & Universidad del Azuay

Research Topic: Municipal water consumption

Adrián Sucozhañay

Universidad de Cuenca & Universidad del Azuay

Research Topic: Hydrological process and modelling, Hydrological drought, Water management

Valeria Falla Valdez

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Research Topic: Water quality impacts and social perceptions of mining control policies in Madre de Dios, Perú