Irapuato, Gto., June 12, 2017.- Interested in the international academic liaison and collaboration, professors of the University of Guanajuato (UG), received the doctor in Geological Sciences Andrea Inés Pasquini, of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) in Argentina.

The expert in geochemistry of the surface, hydrology and climatic change, visited the Division of Life Sciences (DICIVA), by invitation of Dr. Gabriela Ana Zanor, professor of the Department of Environmental Sciences in Irapuato.

Before the professors of the programs in Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energies, the invited exposed the work she makes as an independent researcher, working in the Research Center of Earth Sciences (CICTERRA for its acronym in Spanish) depending of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET for its acronym in Spanish) and the Universidad de Córdoba.

CICTERRA is the largest research center in its kind in Argentina, where they study earth as a system, subsystems, their processes and interactions. Meaning, they analyze the activities of earth from a multidisciplinary and holistic system.

For that they have different laboratories and provide services of technological transfer services, extension and divulgation.

The mentioned center, has around 100 doctoral and postdoctoral scholarship holders, as well as international cooperation agreement in different parts of the world that share research lines they lead.

CICTERRA develops three large research fields: the dynamic of the lithosphere-asthenosphere (sedimentology, geomorphology, metamorphism); the climatic variability and the geo-environmental processes (pollution, geological risk, remediation) and the evolution of the biological diversity, this, for the fossil registry to establish the evolutional relations of the organisms and understand their link with the environmental, climatic and geographic changes.

The Director of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Dr. Rogelio Costilla Salazar and the programs' coordinators, were really interested in generating academic alliances with the invited doctor, who is a member of the council of geochemistry doctorate at UNC, has 28 publications in scientific magazines, a book, and five book chapters, 54 presented works in congresses and national and international scientific reunions.