From insects to migration:
WHAT DO SEVEN  ACADEMIC US FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS INVESTIGATE IN CHILE

They were greeted by Marianne Scott, Public Affairs Officer of the US Embassy and Antonio Campaña, Director of Fulbright Chile. All seven investigators were selected to come to Chile for a nine month term, to work on a variety of very interesting study objectives. Their fields of study and presentations at Fulbright Commission are…

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  Dr. Cara Nelson, Director at College of Forestry and Conservation at University of Montana: Challenges and Opportunities for ecological restoriation in Chile and beyond. “There is a corresponding need for educated professionals who understand both the science and the practices that underpin successful ecosystem repair and current restoration methods”. She will be looking into this while in Chile, trying to develop curricula and instruct courses on emerging concepts in ecological restoration and contributing in restoration activities in forests and plantations in the south. Worldwide the challenge is to restore 15% of ecosistems by 2020, she explained. Universidad de Concepción will be her base point and Professor Cristian Echeverria her host.
  https://goo.gl/JuaI6b

  Prof. David Matarrita from Department of Recreation at Texas A&M University will be investigating the Araucania región of the Chilean Patagonia, where little less than a million people live, a third of which reside in rural áreas and almost a quarter are aboriginals, considered the poorest population in Chile. His activity will seek to improve their quality of life through improving in paralel the research and teaching capabilities o UFRO and CIEP. His research: Sociological Study on Amenity Migration will be focused in Malacahuello, as case study on four groups of residents, all this backed by Universidad de la Frontera.
  https://goo.gl/hOjG6i

   

  

  Hannah Barnet is a math teacher from Baltimore City Public School and a Distinguished Award Fulbright Scholar  who will be looking into “Re-Engaing youth through TRUE Alternative Education Programs”. This she will accomplish by observing  the most successful components of the programs led in Chile to attract over-aged, under-credited youth back to schools and create a plan with these alternatives she can take back to present before d the Baltimore City School Board. Universidad Andrés Bello will second her work in Chile during her stay.
  https://goo.gl/Ebx2rw

   

  Prof. Jennifer Hayward, from the English Department of  the College of Wooster, will work closely with Universidad Autónoma de Chile, digging in the influence of Scotland in our country, as there has been two centuries of transcultural Exchange between these two cultures. British colonialism went further than just India and Africa. The Empire reached the coasts of Brasil and Chile around the 1820s also. Naval Captain Thomas Cochrane is just a simple of this. This scotish “gringo”, so she tells, was called “Almirantito” and was the founder of the chilean Marine institution. She will explore these two hundred years of cooperation between the two regions through travel, migration and Exchange.
  https://goo.gl/0xLI47

   

  

  What Jut Wyne, Research Professor from University of Northern Arizona, has been investigating in Chile is yet another story: Conservation and management of Endemic Insects  on Rapa Nui, is his expertise. Conaf and Universidad de Chile are behind supporting  his work. He tells us that no native terrestrial vertebrates or large native stands of vegetation exist in our Isla de Pascua. Most of the animalsl and plants that exist today are alien species, he says. Of the over 400 known invertebrate animals on the island, only 31 are considered endemic to it and 10 of these are restricted to the cave environment , many of these  in danger of disappearing. He has been all around Rapa Nui, over, around and under as he has explored caves, cliffs and the sea surrounding the island.
  https://goo.gl/juLMkM

   

  

  From Arizona State University comes industrial engineer René Villalobos to investigate the “Development of R supply Chains for the direct export of Horticultural products by small farmers in Chile” . As the global market environment in retail and the distribution channels are changing and those of Chile are being left behind, despite its initial success in lines such as fresh fruit, it is important for our country to adopt the new practices to compete with advantage in this global market.
  He will ive acourse in supply chain logistics, co. taught  with Professor Rosa Gonzalez,from Universidad de Talca, an expert in port logistics and they will be working on a Project based on Chilean export-ready underperforming perishable agricultural crops.
  https://goo.gl/o8rKeu

  

  “Neuroscience of Acoustic Communication in Chilean Amphibians” is Prof. Walter Wilczynski´s project name. He comes from George State University and his hosts are Mario Penna from Universidad de Chile in Santiago and Nelson Velásquez from Universidad Católica del Maule. The Project uses animal communication as a model for a multidisciplinary approach
  to biology. Basically research examines brain responses to vocal communication signals to understand social behaviour on Chilean amphibians thorugh our South American frogs. It is amazing to watch the way they communicate and students from both universities will be able to do lab work and gain profesional training in presenting research studies.
  https://goo.gl/XlM2VX

   

  Brian Parker,young Fulbright MTV Award winner also atended  the US Scholar meeting. He has been in Chile for a few months already investigating more on what is his life work: the power music has on our lives. An expert in electronic music, he has been interviewing numerous local musicians  about their  life in Chile: what are their main struggles, how do they develop their activity today and learning about what it was like to  live as a modern music lover during the Pinochet era, around the 70’s and 80’s.  What material he collects, he uploads to his site, “ DISCOBRES”.   “I’ve just finished recording an hour-long mix of electronic music from Chilean artists, labels and sound artists that I will publish as the first in a podcast series, separate from the artist  mixes that I’ve been curating. As many of the electronic music communities in Santiago there is struggle at collaborating on inter-disciplinary projects and initiatives, I hope that this project will promote the possibility of local artists working across genres. It’s also a bit more of a stylistic overview of the electronic music scene as a whole for the non-Chilean audiences”.
  http://www.discobres.com/

• Recordings of the presentations…