Me now

👩🏽‍💻 Research

My research is focused on laboratory and field studies related to soil science and environmental studies, specifically in soil physics. Now I am interested in to understand urban soil ecosystem services, as part of my participation at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, CEDEUS. I am actively seeking collaboration opportunities in this topic. For example, I started to sample soil samples in parks in Santiago:

Work in progress!

library(leaflet)
leaflet() %>% 
  addTiles() %>%  # Add default OpenStreetMap map tiles
  addMarkers(lng=-70.6412692, lat=-33.4356565, popup="Parque Forestal") %>% 
    addMarkers(lng=-70.6401543, lat=-33.4404796, popup="Parque San Borja") %>% 
    addMarkers(lng=-70.6320152, lat=-33.4348176, popup="Parque Balmaceda") %>% 
    addMarkers(lng=-70.6185047, lat=-33.4957693, popup="Campus San Joaquín")

👩🏽‍🏫 Teaching

I’m currently teaching: - Geology/soil science (100%) - Research methodologies (50%) - Data analysis and visualization (100%)

Together with my colleague Felipe Lobos we teach R and python. Take a look at some of the results of the research methodologies course.

torres-valencia

olmedo-alegria-villaverde

lopez-schmidt

vargas-molina

Figure 1: Cool figures!

📝 Publications and Conferences

I am writing academic articles related to urban soils and soil physics. I am super proud of my colleagues Carlos Bonilla, Cristina Contreras, and Carolina Giraldo, and together we have published cool new stuff about soil physics.

With Moreen Willaredt and Beverly Alvarez-Torres I have been exploring more about urban soils and their role in the urban soil hydrology.

📦 R packages

I have developed two R packages:

  • ggsoiltexture: Provides a simple ggplot function for the plotting of soil textural data
  • InfiltrodiscR: Provides functions for the modeling of data derived from the Minidisk Infiltrometer device.

(a) ggsoiltexture

(b) InfiltrodiscR

Figure 2: Some outcomes from each R package

🎮 Hobbies

When I was a kid, I never got to play much SNES or PS1 because my brothers used the consoles. Now as an adult, I set out to play some games on my own. This year I finished Megaman X and Megaman X2, and I want to advance in the saga.

I am a fan of the game Stardew Valley. I really want to try major game update, but lately I had been busy :(

(a) megaman

Screenshot from Reddit fo the Stardew Valley game. A character is asking about soil samples

Figure 3: Games <3