Research concluded at the beginning of 2020, which included Dr. Marcos Moreno Switt of the UdeC Department of Geophysics, indicates that the loading and unloading processes of seismic energy, which cause earthquakes, are controlled by interacting processes occurring more than 50 kilometers deep in the earth’s crust.

The Executive Director of the World Food Program, David Beasley, provided a dark outlook on the future of the global food supply in mid-April. Director Beasley announced that the world will live a famine of “biblical proportion” within months. In parallel, the FAO published a book that sheds light on the future of commercial fishing and aquaculture for the global food supply. The authors of this book include a UdeC researcher from the INVASAL Millennium Nucleus.

A series of talks have taken place online due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, with great public reception.