Browsing by Subject "Andes"
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Devil in the Water, Lights on the Mountain: Climate Change in Andean Peru
(2018)This dissertation examines everyday life and storytelling in Peru's Huaylas Valley: a transnational mining hub beneath melting Andean glaciers. During one year of ethnographic fieldwork, I listened to citydwellers and villagers ... -
Exploring Links between Climate and Orogeny by Estimating Uplift with a Physical-Statistical Model
(2013)The Andes Mountains provide a unique setting to study the interplay between climate and geomorphology. The mechanism proposed to describe the evolution of Andean topography is a feedback loop where precipitation erodes the ... -
Investigating the Geological and Biogeographical Cenozoic History of the Amazon-Andes Region
(2019)The Amazon-Andes region of tropical South America plays host to the world’s largest river, its highest biodiversity and one of its highest mountain chains, as well as a long and complex history. As such, it represents an ... -
Revealing a cryptic fern distribution through DNA sequencing: Pityrogramma trifoliata in the Western Andes of Peru
(American Fern Journal, 2013-01-01)Fern identification usually requires the use of mature sporophytes, since attempts to identify juveniles using morphological traits often provides unsatisfactory results. Here we examined young sporophytes found among boulders ... -
Role of Surface Evapotranspiration on Moist Convection along the Eastern Flanks of the Andes
(2014)The contribution of surface evapotranspiration (ET) to moist convection, cloudiness and precipitation along the eastern flanks of the Andes (EADS) was investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (ARW-WRF3.4.1) ...
