Andrés Rivera
Andrés was born in Santiago of Chile in 1966. He was living in the capital of the
country until he moved to Valdivia in 2004 when he joined Centre for Scientific Studies
(CECs) after completing his PhD at the Centre for Glaciological Studies of the
University of Bristol in the UK. Until commencing is PhD, he was working at
University of Chile where he was teaching and doing research since he graduated as
Geographer in 1990. His research has been related to Glaciology, including glaciervolcano interactions in central-southern Chile, calving glaciers in Patagonia, and glacier
inventories and recent changes all around the country using remote sensing and
geophysical survey methods, such as GPS, radars, and mass balance studies. More
recently, he has worked on airborne surveys (Lidar, Radar and thermal infrared
cameras) to Patagonia, several ice-capped volcanoes and Antarctica, using Chilean
armed forces platforms, as well as collaborations with private companies, NASA and
other universities from abroad. Antarctica has also been high priority in Andrés’s
research. He went for the first time in 1997 to Patriot Hills (80°S) to map a blue ice area
and perform radar studies. Since then, he has studied the Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves
and feeding glaciers. In the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet, he conducted surveys of
several glaciers along over snow traverses to the South Pole (in 2004), the Subglacial
Lake Ellsworth (in 2006), the Pole of Inaccessibility (in 2007-2008) and to Union
Glacier in 2008-2011.
Abbreviated ISI publication list since 2009:
Wendt A., G. Casassa, A. Rivera & J. Wendt. (2009): “Reassessment of ice
mass balance at Horseshoe Valley, Antarctica”. Antarctic Science 21(5), 505513.
Zamora R., D. Ulloa, G. García, R. Mella, J. Uribe, J. Wendt, A. Rivera, G.
Gacitúa & G. Casassa. (2009): “Airborne radar sounder for temperate ice: initial
results from Patagonia”. Journal of Glaciology, 55 (191), 507-512.
Le Quesne C., C. Acuña, J. Boninsegna, A. Rivera, & J. Barichivich (2009):
"Long-term glacier variations in the Central Andes of Argentina and Chile,
inferred from historical records and tree-ring reconstructed precipitation".
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 281, 334–344.
Masiokas, M., Rivera, A., Espizúa, L.,Villalba, R., Delgado S., and J.C. Aravena.
(2009): “Glacier fluctuations in extratropical South America during the past 1000
years”. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 281, 242–268.
Paul, F., R.G. Barry, J.G. Cogley, H. Frey, W. Haeberli, A. Ohmura, C.S.L.
Ommanney, B. Raup, A. Rivera & M. Zemp (2009): “Recommendations for the
compilation of glacier inventory data from digital sources”. Annals of Glaciology
50(53), 119–126.
Castruccio, A. J. Clavero & A. Rivera. (2010): “Comparative study of lahars
generated by the 1961 and 1971 eruptions of Calbuco and Villarrica volcanoes,
Southern Andes of Chile”. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research,
doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.12.005.
Koppes, M., R. Sylwester, A. Rivera, B. Hallet. (2010): ”Variations in sediment
yield over the advance and retreat of a calving glacier, Laguna San Rafael,
North Patagonian Icefield”. Quaternary Research, 73, 84-95.
Wendt, J., A. Rivera, A. Wendt, F. Bown, R. Zamora, G. Casassa & C. Bravo
(2010): ”Recent ice-surface-elevation changes of Fleming Glacier in response
to the removal of the Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula”. Annals of
Glaciology, 51(55), 97-102.
Rivera, A. , R. Zamora, C. Rada, J. Walton & S. Proctor (2010): ” Glaciological
investigations on Union Glacier, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica”. Annals
of Glaciology, 51(55), 91-96.
Ross, N., M. Siegert, J. Woodward, A.M. Smith, H.F.J. Corr, M.J. Bentley,
R.C.A. Hindmarsh, E.C. King, and A. Rivera (2011):” Holocene stability of the
Amundsen-Weddell ice divide, West Antarctica”. Geology, doi:10.1130/G31920.1.
Rivera, A., J. Corripio, C. Bravo and S. Cisternas (2012): “Glaciar Jorge Montt
dynamics derived from photos obtained by fixed cameras and satellite image
feature tracking”. Annals of Glaciology, 53(60), 147-155.
Rivera, A., M. Koppes, C. Bravo, and J. Aravena (2012): “Little Ice Age advance
and retreat of Glaciar Jorge Montt, Chilean Patagonia”. Climate of the Past, 8,
403-414.
Rivera, A., Bown, F., Carrión, D., Zenteno, P., (2012): ”Glacier responses to
recent volcanic activity in Southern Chile”. Environmental Research Letters, 7,
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/014036.