Camilo Del Río López

2026 Fernandez-Murillo, M. d. P., Cifuentes, E., Beggs, A., Manzano, M., Gutiérrez-Cortés, I., Vargas, C., del Río, C., & Alfaro, F. D. “Assessing the Crucial Role of Marine Fog in Early Soil Development and Biocrust Dynamics in the Atacama Desert”. Soil Systems, 10(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems10010012

2025 Carter, V., Verbrugghe, N., Lobos-Roco, F., del Río, C., Albornoz, F. and Khan, A.Z. “Unlocking the fog: assessing fog collection potential and need as a complementary water resource in arid urban lands–the Alto Hospicio, Chile case”. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1537058

2025 Lobos-Roco, F., Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J., & del Río, C. “Observation-driven model for calculating water-harvesting potential from advective fog in (semi-)arid coastal regions”. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-109-2025

2024 Albornoz, F., del Río, C., Carter, V., Escobar, R., Vásquez, L. “Fog Water Collection for Local Greenhouse Vegetable Production in the Atacama Desert”. Sustainability, 15, 15720. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152215720

2024 Albornoz, F., Vilches, I., del Río, C., Carter, V. “Soilless Production of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) in the Atacama Desert Using Fog Water: Water Quality and Produce Mineral Composition”. Horticulturae. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10090957

2024 Espinoza, Vicente, Felipe Lobos-Roco, Camilo del Río. “Synoptic control of the spatiotemporal variability of fog and low clouds under ENSO phenomena along the Chilean coast (17°-36° S)”. Atmospheric Research, Volume 308, 107533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107533

2024 Keim-Vera, K., Lobos-Roco, F., Aguirre, I., Merino, C., del Río, C. “Fog types frequency and their collectable water potential in the Atacama Desert”. Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107747

2024 Lobos-Roco, Felipe, Francisco Suárez, Francisca Aguirre-Correa, Klaus Keim, Ignacio Aguirre, Constanza Vargas, Francisco Abarca, Carla Ramírez, Rodrigo Escobar, Pablo Osses, Camilo del Río. “Understanding inland fog and dew dynamics for assessing non-rainfall water potential use in the Atacama”. Journal of Arid Environments, Vol. 221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105125

2023 Albornoz, Francisco, Camilo del Río, Virginia Carter, Rodrigo Escobar, Lucas Vásquez. “Fog water collection for local greenhouse vegetable production in the Atacama Desert”. Sustainability, 15, 15720. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152215720

2023 Grigusova, P., Larsen, A., Achilles, S., Brandl, R., del Río, C., Farwig, N., Kraus, D., Paulino, L., Pliscoff, P., Übernickel, K., Bendix, J. “Higher sediment redistribution rates related to burrowing animals than previously assumed as revealed by time-of-flight-based monitoring”. Earth Surface Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-1273-2022

2023 Grigusova, P., Larsen, A., Brandl, R., del Río, C., Farwig, N., Kraus, D., Paulino, L., Pliscoff, P., Bendix, J. “Mammalian bioturbation amplifies rates of both hillslope sediment erosion and accumulation along the Chilean climate gradient”. Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3367-2023

2023 Jung, P., Lehnert, L.W., Bendix, J., Lentendu, G., Grube, M., Alfaro, F.D., del Río, C., Gutiérrez Alvarado, J.L., van den Brink, L., Lakatos, M. “The grit crust: A poly-extremotolerant microbial community from the Atacama Desert as a model for astrobiology”. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.1052278

2023 Lobos-Roco, F., Suárez, F., Aguirre-Correa, F., Keim, K., Aguirre, I., Vargas, C., Abarca, F., Ramírez, C., Escobar, R., Osses, P., del Río, C. “Understanding Fog and Dew Dynamics for Assessing Non-Rainfall Water Potential Uses in the Atacama”. SSRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4565937

2023 Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés, Camilo del Río, Marcelo Leguia-Cruz, Pablo Mansilla-Quiñones. “Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot”. Applied Geography, Vol. 159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103060

2022 Mikulane, Signe, Alexander Siegmund, Camilo del Río, Marcus A. Koch, Pablo Osses, Juan-Luis García. “Remote Sensing based mapping of Tillandsia fields - a semi-automatic detection approach in the hyperarid coastal Atacama Desert, northern Chile”. Journal of Arid Environments, Vol. 205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104821

2022 Schween, Jan H., Camilo del Rio, Juan-Luis García, Pablo Osses, Sarah Westbrook, and Ulrich Löhnert. “Life cycle of stratocumulus clouds over 1 year at the coast of the Atacama Desert”.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 12241–12267. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12241-2022

2021 Alfaro, F.D., Manzano, M., Almiray, C., García, J.-L., Osses, P., del Río, C., Vargas, C., Latorre, C., Koch, M.A., Siegmund, A., Abades, S. “Soil bacterial community structure of fog‐dependent Tillandsia landbeckii dunes in the Atacama Desert”. Plant Systematics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-021-01781-0

2021 del Río, C., Lobos, F., Siegmund, A., Tejos, C., Osses, P., Huaman, Z., Meneses, J.P., García, J.-L. “GOFOS, ground optical fog observation system for monitoring the vertical stratocumulus-fog cloud distribution in the coast of the Atacama Desert, Chile”. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126190

2021 del Río, Camilo, Felipe Lobos-Roco, Claudio Latorre, Marcus A. Koch, Juan-Luis García, Pablo Osses, Fabrice Lambert, Fernando Alfaro & Alexander Siegmund. “Spatial distribution and interannual variability of coastal fog and low clouds cover in the hyperarid Atacama Desert and implications for past and present Tillandsia landbeckii ecosystems”. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 307, 58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-021-01782-z

2021 García, Juan-Luis, Felipe Lobos-Roco, Jan H. Schween, Camilo del Río, Pablo Osses, Raimundo Vives, Mariana Pezoa, Alexander Siegmund, Claudio Latorre, Fernando Alfaro, Marcus A. Koch & Ulrich Loehnert. “Climate and coastal low-cloud dynamic in the hyperarid Atacama fog Desert and the geographic distribution of Tillandsia landbeckii (Bromeliaceae) dune ecosystems”. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 307, 57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-021-01775-y

2018 del Río, Camilo, Juan-Luis Garcia, Pablo Osses, Nicolás Zanetta, Fabrice Lambert, Daniela Rivera, Alexander Siegmund, Nils Wolf, Pilar Cereceda, Horacio Larraín, Felipe Lobos. “ENSO influence on coastal fog-water yield in the Atacama Desert, Chile”. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 18: 127–144. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2017.01.0022

2025–2028 ANID Fondequip Mediano: Observatorio de capa límite marina y niebla (Coordinador Responsable).

2024–2028 ANID Fondecyt Regular N°1241176: Comprensión del rol de la lluvia, la niebla y el rocío, como fuentes de agua y nutrientes en la conservación y restauración de los ecosistemas costeros del norte y centro de Chile (18° - 34°S) (Investigador Responsable).

2024–2026 ANID Anillo N°ATE230006: The past and future of altiplano wetlands: investigating the water and energy cycles in closed basins under changing conditions using in-situ observations, remote sensing, biophysical indicators, and numerical modeling (Investigador Responsable; Director Francisco Suárez). https://altiplanowetlands.cl

2024–2026 National Geographic Society: Chile's fog monitoring network: Understanding fog's role in ecosystem conservation and its potential as water resource (Investigador).

2024–2025 ANID FOVI240190: Vinculación internacional en investigación "International Seminar: Agriculture in the Desert using alternative water sources and renewable energies" (Director).

2024–2025 UC Chile - UC Davis: Framing a Chile-California fog ecosystem monitoring network: creating a foundation for joint strategies for conservation and adaptation to climate change (Investigador Responsable).
2023–2026 ANID Fondecyt N°1231434: Water conflicts: Multifactorial causes and mechanism for their prevention and resolution (Co-investigador; IP Guillermo Donoso).

2023–2025 ANID Fondef IDEA I+D N°ID23I10235: Mapa de agua de niebla (18° - 35°s): modelo de disponibilidad y gobernanza de una fuente complementaria para territorios de escasez hídrica (Director).

2023 Proyecto CP22-E033 Ciencia Pública, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación: Desierto Vivo: Espacio público del agua de niebla (Investigador).

2022–presente Centro UC Desierto de Atacama (Director). https://cda.uc.cl/

2022–2025 ANID Fondecyt Exploración Nº13220028: Establishing the basis for the use of fog water as the main source of irrigation water for agricultural production across the coastal Atacama desert (Director Alterno; Director Francisco Albornoz).

2022–2023 ANID Fseq N°210018: Integrating drought monitoring and public policy design towards the proactive management of drought (Investigador).

2020–2023 ANID Fondecyt Iniciación N°11200789: La variabilidad espacio-temporal de la niebla costera del norte de Chile (18° - 30°S): análisis multi-factorial y multi-escalar para la construcción del mapa de agua de niebla (Investigador Responsable).

2017–2019 PCI – ANID, ERANet Lac: The Chilean-Peruvian coastal fog ecosystems under climate change: understanding biosphere-atmosphere interactions to support biodiversity conservation (Investigador y coordinador internacional).

2025 Gaxiola, A., del Río, C., Miranda, M.D., Suárez, F. “Sentinel Hydrological Processes: Informing Drought Management Strategies in Chile”. En: Droughts in Chile (Cham, Springer). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85040-0_15

Tesis de magíster — como guía
2024 - Valdivia Matteoda, Nicolás Felipe. Fundamentos de un SIG para para la gestión de la red de estaciones de monitoreo de niebla: Potenciando los estudios sobre captación de agua niebla y variables meteorológicas asociadas. Magíster en Geografía y Geomática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

2024 - Espinoza Escobedo, Vicente Patricio. La influencia del ENOS en la variabilidad espacio-temporal de la niebla y las nubes bajas en las costas del norte y centro de chile (17°s-36°s).. Magíster en Geografía y Geomática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

2024 - Keim Vera, Klaus Kurt. Frecuencia de tipos de niebla y su potencial de agua colectable en la costa del desierto de Atacama. Magíster en Geografía y Geomática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

2021 - Abarca Paredes, Francisco Andrés. Caracterización de las condiciones atmosféricas en la captación de agua de niebla en el tillandsial del cerro Oyarbide en la Cordillera de la Costa, Desierto de Atacama Región de Tarapacá. Magíster en Geografía y Geomática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. https://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/GEO/65148