Hacemos investigación sobre cambio global.
Estudiamos el impacto de las actividades humanas en el medio natural.
Adoptamos un enfoque interdisciplinario, combinando herramientas de la química ambiental, teledetección, observación de la vida salvaje, y ciencia ciudadana. Empleamos conjuntamente las ciencias sociales y naturales para estudiar el Sistema Tierra desde una perspectiva integrada.
Para ello, seguimos dos estrategias complementarias:
Desarrollamos nuestra investigación en diferentes escalas espaciales y temporales, para acceder a áreas y periodos de tiempo con diferentes niveles de afectación por impactos antrópicos (p. ej. áreas naturales remotas, cambios climáticos pasados).
Tropical climates are changing rapidly in the most populated regions of the planet. The changes largely arise from alterations in the Hadley circulation driven by natural and anthropogenic factors, ...
Up to 11% of worlds rainforests overlap with conventional oil and natural gas reserves. In this context, the occurrence of petroleum-extraction activities in the Amazon and their impact on the environment and those indigenous populations living in the vicinity of these areas has generated a great deal of controversy. A major cause for concern has been the reported high levels of oil-related lead in the blood of members of remote indigenous communities. On a different vein, the use of lead-based ammunition, which in 2003 had a global consumption of 120,000 tons, is a very important source of direct lead release to soil at the global level. This study aims at providing new insights into lead (and other heavy metals) pollution in remote areas of the planet, and at establishing their potential sources.