Noticias y eventos

Yesterday we spent an excellent field day looking for locations to sample biodiversity and ecosystem functions in rivers and "acequias de careo" systems. This work is part of the NBS4WATER project funded by the Autonomous Organism of National Parks, in which we aim to learn how human-nature coupled systems work, using as a model the […]

We started the field sampling carried out in the CAESCG project NBS4WATER, with the aim of having a more precise knowledge of the "acequias de careo" system along a gradient of aridity and anthropization, improving their management and preventing their disappearance and, at the same time, using them as an effective tool for adaptation and […]

Our PhD student Nelson Londoño Gutiérrez participated in an outstanding way in the Virtual Forum of the Corporación Autónoma Regional de Cundinamarca for the celebration of the International Day of Biological Diversity with the presentation "Biodiversity Conservation in Colombian Socioecosystems". Nelson is doing his doctoral thesis on "Socioecosystems as a framework for designing biodiversity conservation […]

José María Calaforra, Professor of Geology at our Center and director of the "Water Resources and Environmental Geology" Research Group, transferred his scientific and research experience in the field of Underground Environmental Protection to the 36th Brazilian Congress of Speleology-CBE. The overall objective of this congress was to disseminate information about the importance of caves […]

This week we had the meeting to coordinate the work of NBS4WATER, a new project on "Nature-based solutions for resilient management of the hydrological cycle in mountain areas: traditional water management systems of Sierra Nevada", the project in which we intend to characterize and enhance the value of irrigation ditches of Sierra Nevada as nature-based […]

Our colleague and PhD student at CAESCG, Montse Escudero Clares, attended during the 25th, 26th and 27th the "Seminar on Remote Sensing Applied to Territorial Monitoring of Ecosystems" at the facilities of CENEAM, the National Center for Environmental Education, in Valsaín, Segovia, held in the surroundings of the Guadarrama National Park, and organized by the […]

Through a literature review, our researcher Cristina Quintas-Soriano, from the SociECOSLab research group (UAL), together with researchers from Germany Tobias Plieninger (University of Kassel and University of Göttingen) and Andreas Buerkert (University of Kassel), have published their new scientific findings in the article entitled "Effects of land abandonment on nature contributions to people and good […]

Beatriz E. Murillo-López (UTP-Colombia), our researcher Antonio J. Castro (UAL), and Alexander Feijoo-Martínez (UTP-Colombia), have published their latest research on this topic in an article entitled "Nature's Contributions to People Shape Sense of Place in the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia". Despite the undeniable rural exodus that affects all agricultural lands on the planet, there […]

Our researcher Manuel Pacheco-Romero, currently on a postdoctoral stay at the Social-Ecological Systems Institute of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany), has just published an article entitled "A data-driven methodological routine to identify key indicators for social-ecological system archetype mapping" in the journal Environmental Research Letters, together with the researchers María Vallejos (INIA-Uruguay), José Paruelo […]

Our researchers Fernando Gázquez, Ángel Fernández-Cortés and José María Calaforra together with collaborators Ana Monteserín and Christina Obert, have recently published in their latest research work a finding that further enhances the importance of the giant geode of Pulpí, entitled "The Absolute Age and Origin of the Giant Gypsum Geode of Pulpí (Almería, SE Spain)", […]