Landing on ice. The Twin Otter from the Chilean Air Force makes a hard "touch and go" at Fleming glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula. It took almost ten tries before the plane could finnally land on the hard icy surface of the glacier. Thanks to the pilots and crew members!

Panoramic views of Marguerite Bay at Rothera Point in a sunny day of November 2009.This beautiful bay was discovered in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Dr.Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named the bay for his wife.

The analysis of the Landsat ETM+ images at Hariot glacier shows the collapse of the floating tongue between 2008 and 2009 with an area loss of 33 km². The disintigration of the ice tongue was followed by a surge that ended in the calving of 4 icebergs ranging from 0.4 to 0.6 km^2.

A healthy patch of the tropical equatorial rain forest near a litlle town called Chone [0º41'39''- 80º05'29''W] in the Manabí district at Ecuador. The rain forest of Ecuador is characterized by exuberant vegetation and great biologial diversity. However some areas has been affected by intense and continuous logging.

The beautiful shape of two icebergs and two friendly sea gulls at Marguerite bay near the Rothera Research Station, Antarctic Peninsula.

Poster presented recently at the conference "International Glaciological Conference Ice and Climate Change: A View from the South": , helded in the southern and beautiful city of Valdivia (39° 48', N - 73° 14', O), Chile. It presents the albedo changes at the glaciers of Volcán Michinmahuida caused by the volcanic ashes of Volcán Chaitén in the Southern Andes.

This is my poster presented at the conference: High altitude glaciers and climate change, helded in the northen and beautiful city of Tromsø [69° 42' N - 19° 00' E], Norway. It summaries some results of my thesis about the glacier variations of ice-capped volcanoes in the Southern Andes.

Midnight sun in Tromsø, the gateway to the Arctic.

Actually, this photo was taken at 3:34 am. I was attending a conference on high altitude glaciers and climate change at the beautiful city of Tromsø in Norway.

Lat: 69.68 N Long: 18.91 W

Sunset at King George Island. November 2009