Gino Casassa

Dr. Gino Casassa
Unit of Glaciology and Snow
General Water Directorate
Unit of Glaciology and Snow, General Water Directorate, Ministry of Public Works
Morandé 59, 8th floor
Santiago
Chile


E-mail: gino.casassa(at)gmail.com
URL Institution: www.dga.cl


Additional functions:
National Representative Working Group of Snow and Ice, International Hydrological Programme of Latin America and the Caribbean, UNESCO

Memeber Steerring Group, Global Cryosphere Watch, World Meteorological Organization


Key Publications of Gino Casassa (up to ten) :
Casassa, G. and C. Marangunic. 1993. The 1987 Río Colorado rockslide and debris flow, central Andes, Chile. Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists XXX (3), 321 330.
Casassa, G., F. Sepúlveda and R. Sinclair, Eds. 2002. The Patagonian Icefields: A Unique Natural Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies. Eds. G. Casassa, F. Sepúlveda and R. Sinclair. Series of the Centro de Estudios Científicos. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
Rignot, E., A. Rivera and G. Casassa. 2003. Contribution of the Patagonia icefields of South America to global sea level rise. Science, V. 302, p. 434-437.
Casassa, G., A. Rivera, W. Haeberli, G. Jones, G. Kaser, P. Ribstein & C. Schneider. 2007. Editorial. Current status of Andean glaciers. Global and Planetary Change, 59, 1-4, 1-9.
Rosenzweig, C., D. Karoly, M. Vicarelli, P. Neofotis, Q. Wu, G. Casassa, A. Menzel, T.L. Root, N. Estrella, B. Seguin, P. Tryjanowski, C. Liu, S. Rawlins & A. Imeson. 2008. Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change. Nature, 453, 353-358, doi:10.1038/nature06937.
Casassa, G., P. López, B. Pouyaud and F. Escobar. 2009. Detection of changes in glacial run-off in alpine basins: examples from North America, the Alps, central Asia and the Andes. Hydrological Processes, 23, 31–41.
Casassa, G., J.L. Rodríguez and T. Loriaux. 2014. A new glacier inventory for the Southern Patagonia Icefield and areal changes 1986-2000. In Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS), Eds. Kargel, J.S., Leonard, G.J., Bishop, M.P., Kääb, A., Raup, B.H., Springer Praxis Books, Geophysical Sciences, 810 p, New York, 639-660, ISBN 978-3-540-79817-0, p. 639-660.
Braun, M.H., P. Malz, C. Sommer, D. Fari?as-Barahona, T. Sauter, G. Casassa, A. Soruco, P. Skvarca and T.C. Seehaus. 2019. Constraining glacier elevation and mass changes in South America. Nature Climate Change, 9, 130-136, ISSN 1758-678X, EISSN 1758-6798. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0375-7.
Fari?as-Barahona, D., S. Vivero, G. Casassa, M. Schaefer, F. Burger, T. Seehaus, P. Iribarren-Anacona, F. Escobar, M.H. Braun. Geodetic mass balances and area changes of Echaurren Norte Glacier (Central Andes, Chile) between 1955 and 2015. Remote Sensing, 11(3), 260-277, ISSN 2072-4292, doi:10.3390/rs11030260.


Expertise of Gino Casassa:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Expert Type
	Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic Cryosphere	Glaciers

Specialties of Gino Casassa:
Glacier Geophysics, Glaciers and Climate Change

Last update: 11/6/19
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)

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