Marcelo Somos Valenzuela

Past Fellow

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Massachusetts

Research Interests

My main interest is the quantification of the effects of climate change in water resources; in particular I am interested in the response of the land, water and plants on a local and regional scale. In the past my research was focused on local events such as glacier lakes outburst floods from the point of view of the evolution of hazards for local communities in the Himalayas and Andes of Peru. Currently I am interested in regional land surface modeling to predict changes in different components of the water cycle such us runoff, evapotranspiration and soil moisture as responses to weather and climate changes. Additionally I have worked with governmental institutions (i.e. NWS, Chilean and Peruvian government) and international organizations (i.e. USAID, UNDP, TMI). I am also interested in the application of my results in vulnerability, risk analysis and adaptation analysis while working with decision makers.

Marcelo now serves as Assistant Professor at Universidad de La Frontera.

Education

M.S.E.: Water Resources Engineering. Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. University of Texas at Austin, 2011

B.S.E.: Agricultural Engineering. Universidad de Concepcion Chile, 2006

Ph.D.: Water Resources Engineering. Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. University of Texas at Austin, 2014

Affiliations

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin. Supervised by Dr. David Maidment. Project: National Flood Interoperability Experiment. Goal: Build a US national scale research platform for hydrology, flood d

Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin. Supervised by Dr. Daene McKinney. I studied the formation of lakes from melting glaciers in the Himalayas of Nepal and the Cordillera Blanca in Peru. The

Water Resources Engineer, Chilean water resource bureau, 2007-2008

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Supervisor Dr. Richard Palmer, Sept 2015 to present