Director of VISP
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I grew up in Alaska and attended Oregon and Portland State Universities for my B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees. My primary expertise is in past glacier and climate change. As part of the VISP school I will be overseeing the larger program objectives and assisting with some of the glacial geology related instruction with my graduate students. I am a first generation college student and my family is from Oregon with many members attending 2-year institutions. I am looking forward to being back in Chile during VISP and teaching in outdoor spaces where I currently work.
VISP Instructor and co-Director
I was born in the suburbs of Santiago, the capital of Chile. I am a first-generation college student. My father and my mother were born and raised at the flanks of Quizapú and Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanoes. Their stories motivated me to study geoscience at the Universidad de Chile and then complete my Master's degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I am also doing my first year as a PhD Student. I study volcanoes in Chile focusing on the time they erupted and the specific conditions needed to trigger their eruptions (such as temperature, pressure, water content, etc.). To do that, I analyze specific minerals that crystallize in volcanic lava. I love being in the field, but I have never seen a volcano outside Chile so I am very excited to learn from and with you all!
Universidad De La Frontera Liaison, VISP Instructor, and VISP co-Director
Ivo Fustos es Geofísico y doctor en Ciencias Geológicas por la Universidad de Concepción. Su investigación está centrada en remociones en masa, buscando entender las condiciones extremas que los generan, mejorando futuros sistemas de alerta temprana. Para lograr este objetivo utiliza un enfoque multiparamétrico integrando datos de terreno, percepción remota, geotecnia y modelización numérica. Actualmente está extendiendo sus áreas de interés a modelización de estabilidad mecánica de edificios volcánicos mediante un fondo del Ministerio de Educación de Chile.
VISP Evaluator
Me llamo Lalo Guerrero y soy profesor de Geología en Portland Community College en el estado de Oregon en Estados Unidos. Soy originario de Cuernavaca, Morelos, una ciudad en el eje neovolcánico del centro de México. Fui uno de los coordinadores del Volcanoes and Ice Summer Program que se realizó en Oregon para estudiantes del Portland Community College. Me da mucho gusto poder visitar Temuco y apoyar al VISP para estudiantes de la Universidad de La Frontera. Mi área de especialización es la geomorfología tectónica y los riesgos geológicos.
VISP Instructor
I am the Moraine Chair in Arctic Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences at Dickinson College. I grew up in Wyoming and attended Carleton College (B.A.), the University of Wyoming (M.Sc.) and the University of British Columbia (Ph.D.). My expertise is in volcano-ice interactions, and using volcanic deposits as paleoclimate proxies for reconstructing past ice extents, mainly in British Columbia and Iceland. For VISP, I will be helping to teach basic concepts for describing volcanic rocks and deposits in the field, and learning to identify lava textures and features formed by interactions with ice. I will also be one of the main instructors teaching students how to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV/drones) and Structure-from-Motion principles to make 3-dimensional models of geologic features, as well as helping to give students basic field-based lessons with using QGIS to incorporating those models into more traditional GIS-mapping projects.
VISP Instructor and Science Team Leader
I am the director of the WiscAr 40Ar/39Ar geochronology laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I completed my B.A. in Geological Sciences at the University of California-Santa Barbara, M.S. in Geology at the University of New Mexico, and PhD in Geology at the University of Wyoming. I have spent most of my career integrating petrology and geochronology to understand how magma plumbing systems operate and evolve beneath active volcanoes in subduction zones including the Aleutian Island Arc, the Central American Volcanic Arc, and the Andean Arcs of Chile. Over the past 32 years I have pursued field- and laboratory-based research on volcanoes of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone in Chile, including: Tatara San Pedro, Laguna del Maule, Planchon Peteroa, Diamante Caldera, Antuco, Puyehue, Calbuco, and now Villarrica, Mocho Choshuenco, Antillanca and Osorno). I also enjoy long road bike rides, and a nice bottle of Chilean Carmenere wine. I am looking forward to participating in the VISP program.
VISP Instructor
I'm a first year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, where I just completed my Master's degree. I study coastal erosion and sediment transport in the Great Lakes using computer models, drones, and sonar. I took a two year break between high school and college to work in the service industry before enrolling at a 2-year campus. From there I transferred to a 4-year institution in Milwaukee, WI but continued to work full time through my undergraduate degree. As a first generation college student I never planned on grad school, but I made some great connections through my professors that provided encouragement and experience. I'm very excited to participate in VISP because I think it's a great opportunity to foster similar connections. Looking forward to meeting you all!
VISP Instructor
Nací en la ciudad de Curicó, Región del Maule, donde desde pequeña coleccionaba rocas de todos los lugares que visitaba. Cuando salí del colegio, decidí estudiar Geología en la Universidad Católica de Temuco. Luego, tuve la oportunidad de realizar mi práctica profesional en Antártica y además de convencerme de que habitamos un laboratorio natural increíble, descubrí mi pasión por la glaciología, el clima del pasado y el cambio climático. Actualmente, soy estudiante de Magíster en la University of Wisconsin-Madison, donde mi investigación se centra en dataciones con isótopos cosmogénicos en morrenas del volcán Villarrica (Chile) para poder proporcionar una delimitación del retroceso del hielo durante el Holoceno en la Zona Volcánica del Sur, y así llenar vacíos críticos en la cronología glacial al norte de la Patagonia. ¡Estoy muy entusiasmada de ser parte del VISP y espero conocerlos/las pronto!
VISP Instructor
Nacido y criado en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en el medio de la llanura pampeana. No fue hasta que mi familia se mudo a Córdoba que conocí las sierras, donde las impresionantes tormentas de verano llamaron mi atención por los procesos geológicos y climáticos. Obtuve mi titulo en Geología en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) en 2019 y desde entonces participe en campañas en Patagonia y en Antártida en la Isla James Ross y en las Islas Shetland del Sur. Actualmente me desempeño como estudiante de doctorado en el Geoscience Department de la University of Wisconsin-Madison, en donde investigo los procesos climáticos detrás de las fluctuaciones glaciarias luego del Ultimo Máximo Glaciar en la Zona Volcánica del Sur utilizando dataciones por isotopos cosmogenicos y modelado numérico. Estoy muy contento de poder participar de VISP y poder trabajar con ustedes en el gran laboratorio natural que comprende la Cordillera de los Andes.