Sunday January 6, 2019
Registration at Nahmias (the Conference building) between 15:00 and 18:00.
Monday January 7, 2019
Pre-Conference Tour to Reserva Costera: the pre-conference tour is on Monday Jan 7, 2019, departing Valdivia at 0900 and returning at 1800 in time for the welcoming dinner and associated events. This excursion west of Valdivia will involve a travel by bus and short ferry ride and will include walking on forest paths to visit sites of recent study of wood in streams and native, ancient, Valdivian rainforest. Trip leaders will include Andrés Iroumé, Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva and Lorenzo Picco.
Registration at Nahmias (the Conference building) between 15:00 and 18:00.
Welcoming Dinner: The welcoming dinner will take place at 2000. The name and location of the restaurant will be soon informed.
Tuesday and Wednesday, January 8 and 9, 2019
Registration at Nahmias (the Conference building) between 08:00 and 13:00 on Tuesday January 8.
Oral and Poster presentations (Download here the program of oral and poster presentations.).
Tuesday and Wednesday, lunch at Murtao Restaurant between 13:00 and 14:30.
Tuesday, welcome dinner at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC Valdivia), between 20:00 and 22:00.
Thursday and Friday, January 10 and 11, 2019
Post- Conference Tour to Ensenada/Calbuco: The two-day post-conference tour will depart Valdivia at 0830 on Jan 10, 2019 and proceed to Puerto Varas and on to the Ensenada area (approximately 3-4 hours by motor coach). The vistas along the way will include intensive forestry plantations of exotic radiata pine and eucalyptus, agriculture (especially dairy farming), several big rivers draining the glacial-moraine-dammed lakes characteristic of this lake region of Chile, and spectacular volcanoes – Osorno (2652 m), Calbuco (2003 m), Tronador (3478 m), and others. The trip will provide biogeographic and cultural cross-sectional and historical views of this fascinating part of the world, and feature findings from current research on wood in rivers impacted by various volcanic processes.
The trip will be led by research group leaders and colleagues Andres Iroume and Hector Ulloa, Andy Russell and Alejandro Dussaillant, and Fred Swanson and Julia Jones.
Specific visit sites will be along the Blanco-Este and Tepú rivers, which drain the northeastern flanks of the Calbuco Volcano. The Calbuco is one of the most active volcanoes in southern Chile and is localized in the Los Lagos Region southeast of Llanquihue Lake. A substantial eruption in 1893 gave the volcano its current shape. Subsequent eruptions occurred in 1895, 1906-7, 1911-12, 1917, 1932, 1945, 1961, 1972 and 2015.
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