On the one hand, building houses requires new insulators made from sustainable materials. On the other hand, the timber industry is generating waste from eucalyptus bark that, when burned, produces tons of CO2. Discover how these two problems came together in the Technological Development Unit (UDT) to shape a solution licensed to the company Aislacor.

The Alluvial Basin Site Response Observatory (ORSCA, in Spanish) is a pioneering initiative for South America. The project’s eight seismometers, six on the surface, have been placed across sites with different geological and geotechnical conditions throughout the capital of the Biobío Region.

The team of climatologists led by Dr. Martín Jacques Coper has managed to identify precursor atmospheric signs of heat waves in the country, two weeks in advance. The researcher explains that these high-temperature phenomena affect the spread of wildfires

Dr. Rodrigo Abarca del Río, from the Department of Geophysics, is part of the scientific committee of the international project that launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to measure the planet’s water changes