Dr Waldo Lavado
22/01/2024-26/01/2024: Peruvian guest researcher Dr Waldo Lavado from SENAMHI, the National Service of Meterology and Hydrology of Peru, visited PIK for the B-EPICC Final Events. Dr Waldo Lavado collaborates with the project´s researcher Carlos A. Fernández Palomino in the field of Hydrology and Water resources. He specifically focuses on generating and providing meteorological, hydrological and climate information and knowledge. During the B-EPICC Final Events Dr Waldo Lavado met with Deputy Head of Research Department “Climate Resilience” Professor Dr Fred Hattermann. They discussed the transfer of B-EPICC products, such as the RAIN4PE precipitation data and associated methodologies as well as the development of a hydrological model for Peru. The primary objective is to empower SENAMHI to sustainably utilize these resources over time. The fruitful discussion led to the preperation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the knowledge exchange as well as potential for collaborative projects between SENAMHI and PIK in the future.
Dr Juan Bazo
22/01/2024-26/01/2024: Peruvian guest researcher Dr Juan Bazo from the Red Cross and Red Cresent Climate Centre visited PIK for the B-EPICC Final Events. Dr Juan Bazo collaborates with the project´s researcher Dr Josef Ludescher in the field El Niño Forecasting and focuses on local preparedness and anticipatory actions among others for EL Niño forecast in Peru and Ecuador. During the B-EPICC Final Events Dr Juan Bazo and Dr Josef Ludescher together with former Guest researcher Cristian Febre worked on their scientific project aiming to predict extreme precipitation associated with El Niño. Dr Juan Bazo also met with Deputy Head of Research Department “Climate Resilience” Professor Dr Fred Hattermann, who shared about the different projects of the department and his experience with hydrological modeling at PIK. Dr Juan Bazo added his experience working at the Red cross, highlighting the need to start measures early based on predictions, before extreme events occur.
Dr Erickson Urquiaga
September - October 2023
Dr. Erickson Urquiaga from the Institute for Nature, Earth & Energy (INTE) at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP, Lima) spent four weeks at PIK in the research group 'Ecosystems in Transition' to work with Sarah Bereswill, researcher in B-EPICC project.
Dr. Erickson Urquiaga (r) and B-EPICC scientist Sarah Bereswill (l) at PIK. ©B-EPICC
The focus and goal of the research visit was to seek closer collaboration between modelers and field researchers to tackle research questions regarding current development and future perspectives of forests and biodiversity in Perú. The long-term expertise of the research group at INTE in ecological data collection and field research in different forest ecosystems in Perú, from the lowland tropical rainforests in the Amazon basin to the high-altitude Andean forests has resulted in extensive datasets. For the PUCP-PIK collaboration, this data will be used to validate the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model LPJmL-FIT hosted at PIK and to place model results in a context relevant for Perú.
First joint test simulations of the two researchers already showed high agreement between simulated and observed biomass, carbon and water fluxes across different peruvian study sites. In the next step, future simulations are planned to investigate the influence of climate change on the forests in Perú. Erickson's research stay at PIK was a valuable experience for both sides and forms the basis for further collaboration.
Leonardo Medina Santa Cruz
November 2020 - March 2021
Mr. Medina Santa Curz visited EPICC Team virtually as a master student of Public Administration at the University of Birmingham. As a former GIZ staff in Mexico he joined PIK with the goal to develop a methodology to research governance of climate migration in the EPICC partner country Peru. He also conducted primary data and reviewed existing evidence, building on EPICC outputs to create a scientific publication. Throughout his stay, he studied the manner in which adaptive governance strategies contribute to strengthen governance systems for climate change-induced migration in Peru.
A methodology and theoretical approach were developed, qualitative data were collected from decision-makers at national and sub-national level, and analysis was started. The results are to be published in a joint journal publication beyond the master’s thesis as well.
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