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2026

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6899
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4978
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Chile Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Chile Leader Award

Overview

Roberto Urrutia is affiliated with the University of Concepción in Chile. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main topics of investigation include marine and coastal ecosystems, geology and paleoclimatology research, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, water quality and pollution assessment, remote sensing in agriculture, water quality monitoring and analysis, and geological formations and processes.

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts are Lien Rodríguez-López, Iongel Duran-Llacer, Lisandra Bravo Alvarez, Maarten Van Daele, and Marc De Batist.

Roberto Urrutia has published extensively in several academic journals, with particularly frequent contributions to Remote Sensing, Water, SSRN Electronic Journal, Scientific Reports, and the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Spectral analysis using LANDSAT images to monitor the chlorophyll-a concentration in Lake Laja in Chile (2020, Ecological Informatics)
  • Cyanobacterial bloom monitoring and assessment in Latin America (2023, Harmful Algae)
  • What controls the remobilization and deformation of surficial sediment by seismic shaking? Linking lacustrine slope stratigraphy to great earthquakes in South-Central Chile (2021, Sedimentology)
  • Evaluation of the Impact of Climate Change on Runoff Generation in an Andean Glacier Watershed (2020, Water)
  • Retrieving Water Turbidity in Araucanian Lakes (South-Central Chile) Based on Multispectral Landsat Imagery (2021, Remote Sensing)

Best Publications

  • Multiple effects of urbanization on the biodiversity of developing countries: the case of a fast-growing metropolitan area (Concepción, Chile).

    Aníbal Pauchard;Mauricio Aguayo;Eduardo Peña;Roberto Urrutia

  • Evaluation of water quality in the Chillán River (Central Chile) using physicochemical parameters and a modified water quality index.

    Patrick Debels;Ricardo Figueroa;Roberto Urrutia;Ricardo Barra

  • Passive-Sampler Derived Air Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants on a North-South Transect in Chile

    Karla Pozo;Tom Harner;Mahiba Shoeib;Roberto Urrutia

  • Revealing the impact of forest exotic plantations on water yield in large scale watersheds in South-Central Chile

    C. Little;A. Lara;J. McPhee;R. Urrutia

  • Assessment of ecosystem services as an opportunity for the conservation and management of native forests in Chile

    A. Lara;C. Little;R. Urrutia;J. McPhee

  • Lacustrine turbidites as a tool for quantitative earthquake reconstruction: New evidence for a variable rupture mode in south central Chile

    Jasper Moernaut;Jasper Moernaut;Maarten Van Daele;Katrien Heirman;Karen Fontijn

  • Multiproxy summer and winter surface air temperature field reconstructions for southern South America covering the past centuries

    R. Neukom;J. Luterbacher;R. Villalba;M. Küttel

  • Early to Mid-Holocene Aridity in Central Chile and the Southern Westerlies: The Laguna Aculeo Record (34°S)

    Bettina Jenny;Blas L. Valero-Garcés;Rodrigo Villa-Martínez;Roberto Urrutia

  • Effects of pulp and paper mill effluents on the microplankton and microbial self-purification capabilities of the Biobío River, Chile

    B. Karrasch;O. Parra;H. Cid;M. Mehrens

  • Giant earthquakes in South-Central Chile revealed by Holocene mass-wasting events in Lake Puyehue

    Jasper Moernaut;Marc De Batist;Francois Charlet;Katrien Heirman

  • A comparison of the sedimentary records of the 1960 and 2010 great Chilean earthquakes in 17 lakes: Implications for quantitative lacustrine palaeoseismology

    Maarten Van Daele;Jasper Moernaut;Jasper Moernaut;Lindsey Doom;Evelien Boes

  • Lacustrine turbidites produced by surficial slope sediment remobilization: A mechanism for continuous and sensitive turbidite paleoseismic records

    Jasper Moernaut;Jasper Moernaut;Maarten Van Daele;Michael Strasser;Michael Strasser;Michael A. Clare

  • Moisture changes and fluctuations of the Westerlies in Mediterranean Central Chile during the last 2000 years: The Laguna Aculeo record (33°50′S)

    Bettina Jenny;Blas L Valero-Garcés;Roberto Urrutia;Kerry Kelts

  • The 600 yr eruptive history of Villarrica Volcano (Chile) revealed by annually laminated lake sediments

    M. Van Daele;J. Moernaut;J. Moernaut;G. Silversmit;S. Schmidt

  • A quantitative high-resolution summer temperature reconstruction based on sedimentary pigments from Laguna Aculeo, central Chile, back to AD 850

    Lucien von Gunten;Martin Grosjean;Bert Rein;Roberto Urrutia

  • Residues of pesticides and some metabolites in dissolved and particulate phase in surface stream water of Cachapoal River basin, central Chile.

    María José Climent;Eliseo Herrero-Hernández;María Jesús Sánchez-Martín;María Sonia Rodríguez-Cruz

  • Levels and spatial distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediments from Lenga Estuary, central Chile

    Karla Pozo;Guido Perra;Valentina Menchi;Roberto Urrutia

  • Coastal lake sediments reveal 5500 years of tsunami history in south central Chile

    Philipp Kempf;Jasper Moernaut;Jasper Moernaut;Maarten Van Daele;Willem Vandoorne

  • Larger earthquakes recur more periodically: New insights in the megathrust earthquake cycle from lacustrine turbidite records in south-central Chile

    J. Moernaut;J. Moernaut;M. Van Daele;K. Fontijn;K. Heirman

  • Fluidization of buried mass-wasting deposits in lake sediments and its relevance for paleoseismology: Results from a reflection seismic study of lakes Villarrica and Calafquén (South-Central Chile)

    Jasper Moernaut;Marc De Batist;Katrien Heirman;Maarten Van Daele

  • Food web of a SW Atlantic shallow coastal lagoon: spatial environmental variability does not impose substantial changes in the trophic structure

    Laura Rodríguez-Graña;Danilo Calliari;Daniel Conde;Javier Sellanes

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Pino
Mario Pino Austral University of Chile
Nathalie Fagel
Nathalie Fagel University of Liège
Sebastien Bertrand
Sebastien Bertrand Ghent University
Ricardo Barra
Ricardo Barra University of Concepción
Marc De Batist
Marc De Batist Ghent University
Sabine Schmidt
Sabine Schmidt University of Bordeaux
Karla Pozo
Karla Pozo Masaryk University
Emmanuel Chapron
Emmanuel Chapron University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Martin Grosjean
Martin Grosjean University of Bern
Michael Strasser
Michael Strasser University of Innsbruck

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