Juan Luis García

2026 Lira, M. P., ..., García, J.-L., et al. “Modelling the asynchronous maximum extent of the last Patagonian Ice Sheet”. Quaternary Science Reviews, 387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.110045

2026 Binnie, A., Binnie, S.A., Victor, P., García, J.-L., Heinze, S., Dunai, T.J. “Fluvial responses to climate and tectonics throughout the Quaternary in the semi-arid Andes”. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 678: 119834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.119834

2026 Cooper, E., Davies, B.J., Thorndycraft, V.R., Palmer, A.P., García, J.-L., Evans, D.J.A., Lüthgens, C., Mackintosh, A.N. “Evolving glacier landsystems during Patagonian Ice Sheet recession influenced by a changing topographic setting”. Geomorphology 500, 110148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.110148

2026 Davies, B., Gribbin, T., King, O., Matthews, T., Baiker, J.R., Buytaert, W., Carrivick, J., Drenkhan, F., García, J.-L., Montoya, N., Perry, L.B.-, Ely, J. “Palaeoglacier reconstruction and dynamics of Cordillera Vilcanota in the tropical high Peruvian Andes”. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 51:e70246. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.70246

2026 Surovell, Todd A., César Méndez, Juan-Luis García, Christopher Lüthgens, Jay M. Thompson, Claudio Latorre. “A Middle Holocene Age for the MV-II Component of the Monte Verde Site, Chile”. Science 391(6791): 10.1126/science.adw9217. 19 MAR 2026.

2025 Pfeiffer, M., Cárdenas, V., Rovira, E., Cordero, J., Pailamilla, T., Vergara, J., Maldonado, P., Seguel, O., Soto, N., & García, J. L. “Uncovering the relict periglacial landscapes of the central Chile Andes: Soil formation and polar desert features at 33°S”. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 168, 105839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2025.105839

2024 Carraha, J., García, J-L., Nussbaumer, S.U., Fernández-Navarro, H., Gärtner-Roer, I. “Late Pleistocene to Holocene glacial, periglacial, and paraglacial geomorphology of the upper Río Limarí basin (30–31° S) in the Andes of central Chile”. Journal of Maps 20:1, 2329179. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2024.2329179

2024 Carrivick, J.L., Davies, M., Wilson, R., Davies, B.J., Gribbin, T., King, O., Rabatel, A., García, J.-L., Ely, J.C. “Accelerating Glacier Area Loss Across the Andes Since the Little Ice Age”. Geophysical Research Letters 51, e2024GL109154. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109154

2024 Fernández-Navarro, H., García, J.-L., Nussbaumer, S.U., Tikhomirov, D., Pérez, F., Gärtner-Roer, I., Christl, M., Egli, M. “10Be chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum and Termination in the Andes of central Chile: The record of the Universidad Glacier (34° S)”. Quaternary Science Reviews 344, 108968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108968

2024 García, J.-L., Carraha, J., Fernández-Navarro, H., Nussbaumer, S.U., Pérez, F., Hidy, A.J., Gärtner-Roer, I., Haeberli, W. “Glacial to periglacial transition at the end of the last ice age in the subtropical semiarid Andes”. Geomorphology 109379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109379

2024 McCulloch, R.D., Bentley, M.J., Fabel, D., Fernández-Navarro, H., García, J-L., Hein, A.S., Huynh, C., Jamieson, S.S.R., Lira, M-P., Lüthgens, C., Nield, G.A., San Román, M., Tisdall, E.W. “Resolving the paradox of conflicting glacial chronologies: Reconstructing the pattern of deglaciation of the Magellan cordilleran ice dome (53–54°S) during the last glacial – interglacial transition”. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108866

2023 Cabello, M., García, J.L., Quilamán, A., Pfeiffer, M. “Secuencia estratigráfica de las paleodunas y paleosuelos de Ventanas II en la costa de Chile Central (32º) y su implicancia paleoclimática”. Revista de Geografía Norte Grande 86, 1-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-34022023000300110

2023 Fernández-Navarro, H., García, J.-L., Nussbaumer, S.U., Tikhomirov, D., Pérez, F., Gärtner-Roer, I., Christl, M., Egli, M. “Fluctuations of the Universidad Glacier in the Andes of central Chile (34° S) during the latest Holocene derived from a 10Be moraine chronology”. Quaternary Science Reviews 300, 107884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107884

2023 Orellana, H., Latorre, C., García, J.-L., Lambert, F. “Spatial analysis of paleoclimate variations based on proxy records in the south-central Andes (18°- 35° S) from 32 to 4 ka”. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108174

2023 Rodriguez, P.C, Geiger, A.J., Ferri, L., Smedley, R.K., Garcia, J.L., Herrera, G. “Glacial geomorphology between the Gran Campo Nevado and Estrecho de Magallanes, Chile (52–53°S, 73°W)”. Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2153091

2022 Aguilar, G., Riquelme, R., Lohse, P., Cabré, A., Garcia, J.L. “Chronology of Glacial Advances and Deglaciation in the Encierro River Valley (29° Lat. S), Southern Atacama Desert, Based on Geomorphological Mapping and Cosmogenic 10Be Exposure Ages”. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.878318

2022 Campos–Medina, J., Moreno, K., Rojas, J., Gómez, G., García, J.-L., Buldrini, K.E., Lüthgens, C., Rodríguez, E., Álvarez, R., Abarzúa, A.M. “The oldest record of the Lamini Tribe and Proboscidea order in the southwestern margin of the Andes Mountain range: Late Pleistocene mammalian footprints at the Pelluco fossil forest sanctuary”. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103940

2022 Fernández, H., García, J.-L., Nussbaumer, S.U., Geiger, A.J., Gärtner-Roer, I., Pérez, F., Tikhomirov, D., Christl, M., Egli, M. “De-icing landsystem model for the Universidad Glacier (34° S) in the Central Andes of Chile during the past ~660 years”. Geomorphology 400, 108096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108096

2022 Gómez, G.A., García, J.-L., Villagrán, C., Lüthgens, C., Abarzúa, A.M. “Vegetation, glacier, and climate changes before the global last glacial maximum in the Isla Grande de Chiloé, southern Chile (42° S)”. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107301

2022 Lira, M.-P., García, J.-L., Bentley, M.J., Jamieson, S.S.R., Darvill, C.M., Hein, A.S., Fernández, H., Rodés, Á., Fabel, D., Smedley, R.K., Binnie, S.A. “The Last Glacial Maximum and Deglacial History of the Seno Skyring Ice Lobe (52°S), Southern Patagonia”. Frontiers in Earth Science 10:892316. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.892316

2022 Mikulane, S., Siegmund, A., del Río, C., Koch, M.A., Osses, P., García, J-L. “Remote sensing based mapping of Tillandsia fields - A semi-automatic detection approach in the hyperarid coastal Atacama Desert, northern Chile”. Journal of Arid Environments. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104821

2022 Schween, J.H., del Rio, C., García, J-L., Osses, P., Westbrook, S., Löhnert, U. “Life cycle of stratocumulus clouds over 1 year at the coast of the Atacama Desert”. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 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 Cooper, E.-L., Thorndycraft, V.R., Davies, B.J., Palmer, A.P., García, J.-L. “Glacial geomorphology of the former Patagonian Ice Sheet (44–46 °S)”. Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2021.1986158

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, C., Lobos-Roco, F., Latorre, C., Koch, M.A., García, J-L., Osses, P., Lambert, F., Alfaro, F., Siegmund, A. “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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-021-01782-z

2021 García, J.-L., Lobos-Roco, F., Schween, J.H., del Río, C., Osses, P., Vives, R., Pezoa, M., Siegmund, A., Latorre, C., Alfaro, F., Koch, M.A., Loehnert, U. “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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-021-01775-y

2021 García, J.-L., Lüthgens, C., Vega, R.M., Rodés, Á., Hein, A.S., Binnie, S.A. “A composite 10Be, IR-50 and 14C chronology of the pre-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) full ice extent of the western Patagonian Ice Sheet on the Isla de Chiloé, south Chile (42°≘S)”. E&G Quaternary Science Journal 70, 105–128. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-105-2021

2019 - García, Juan-Luis, Belisario Andrade, Mauricio Calderòn and Christopher Luthgens. “Multi-millennial scale climate variability during MIS 3 and MIS 2 inferred from luminescence dating of coastal sand dunes and buried paleosol sequences in central Chile”. Journal of Quaternary Science 34(3) 203–214. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3092

2018 García, J.L., Andrew S. Hein, Steven A. Binnie, Gabriel Gómez, Mauricio González, Tibor J. Dunai. “The MIS 3 maximum of the Torres del Paine and Última Esperanza ice lobes in Patagonia and the pacing of southern mountain glaciation”. Quaternary Science Reviews 185, 9-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.01.013

2012 García J.L., Kaplan, M.R., Hall, B.L., Schaefer, J.M., Vega, R.M., Finkel, R., Schwartz, R. “Glacier expansion in Southern Patagonia throughout the Antarctic Cold Reversal”. Geology 40, 859-862. https://doi.org/10.1130/G33164.1

2026-2027 Investigador Responsable, PROYECTO AVANZA UC (AV25289): El agua escondida del permafrost: una reserva totalmente desconocida, aún por determinar. Caso de Estudio: Cancha de Carreras, cordillera de Santiago.

2025-2029 Co-investigador, ANID Fondecyt Regular (Nº 1250354): Submarine fjord relief-forming processes: Geomorphological Evolution in an environment of glacial Advance in the Southern Patagonian Icefield (GEA-SPI).

2024-2028 Investigador Responsable, ANID Fondecyt Regular (Nº 1241043): Rock glaciers in the subtropical semiarid Andes of Chile: untangling their origin, age and paleoclimate significance.

2024-2027 Investigador Asociado, ANID Fondequip: XRF portátil para reconstrucciones paleoclimáticas.

2024-2025 Investigador Responsable, LabEx DRIIHM (GLOF OHMi): The Record of Historical Glacial Lake Outburst Flooding (GLOFs) in the Exploradores Valley, North Patagonia, Chile.

2023-2027 Co-investigador, ANID Fondecyt: Revealing past variations in coastal fog moisture during the Holocene using buried Tillandsia landbeckii dune ecosystems in the Atacama Desert.

2023 Investigador Asociado, SNSF (Scientific Exchange, Univ. of Zurich): Long-term response of the mountain cryosphere to climate change – a comparative perspective of the Andes of central Chile and the European Alps.

2020-2024 Investigador Responsable, ANID Fondecyt Regular (Nº 1200935): Did Andean glaciers drive coastal dune formation during the last glacial cycle in central Chile?.

2020-2024 Co-investigador, ANID Fondecyt Regular (Nº 1200727): Solving the paradox of conflicting glacial chronologies: reconstructing the Cordillera Darwin ice sheet (53-55ºS) during the last glacial - interglacial transition.

2020-2023 Co-investigador, ANID Fondecyt: 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.

2017-2019 Co-investigador, ERANet-LAC - ANID Internacional: The Chilean Peruvian arid coastal fog ecosystems under climate change: understanding biosphere atmosphere interactions to support biodiversity conservation.

2016-2020 Investigador Responsable, ANID Fondecyt Regular (Nº 1161110): The Local Last Glacial Maximum along the Patagonian Andes: A composite geographic, geochronologic and modeling approach.

2013-2017 Co-investigador, ANID Fondecyt Regular (Nº 1130128): Dinámicas humanas y ambientales durante el Holoceno en el norte de Aisén continental.

2011-2014 Investigador Responsable, ANID Fondecyt Iniciación (Nº 11110381): Drivers of the Patagonian glaciations: A test of the Milankovitch Astronomic theory of ice ages.

2025 Lee, E., King, O, Ely, J.C, Bravo, C., Drenkman, F., Falaschi, D., García, J.-L., Ruiz, L., Davies, B. “Glaciers of the Andes”. Comprehensive Cryospheric Science and Environmental Change Book, Volume 1, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85242-5.00063-4

2023 García, J.-L., Nussbaumer, S.U., Fernández, H., Mardones, Á., Aguilar, G., Carraha, J.,. “The glacial geomorphology of the Andes of Central Chile (31–34° S).”. En: Landscapes and landforms of Chile. World Geomorphological Landscapes. (Cham, Springer).

Tesis de magíster — como guía
2023 - Carraha Molina, Javiera Paz. Geomorfología y geocronología (10be) de las fluctuaciones del glaciar Universidad en los Andes chilenos subtropicales (34° s) desde el último máximo glacial al presente: implicaciones paleoclimáticas. Magíster en Geografía y Geomática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

2021 - Cabello Espínola, Misael. Evolución morfoestratigráfica de paleodunas y paleosuelos en la ensenada de Quintero, Región de Valparaíso, Chile. Magíster en Geografía y Geomática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. https://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/GEO/63255

Tesis de doctorado — como guía
2023 - Fernández Navarro, Hans Andrés. Geomorfología y geocronología (10-Be) de las fluctuaciones del Glaciar Universidad en los Andes chilenos subtropicales (34° S) desde el Último Máximo Glacial al presente: Implicancias paleoclimáticas. Doctorado en Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. https://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/GEO/74578