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Bringing water markets down to Chile’s Atacama Desert

Water International, 2015
ABSTRACTThe Chilean water model has been described as a textbook example of a successful free water market system. This paper analyses water-rights transactions to determine how this water market has behaved in the northern Atacama Desert. It questions the neoliberal assumption that Chile’s unregulated water market has acted as an active tool to ...
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Searching for life with rovers: exploration methods and science results from the 2004 field campaign of the “Life in the Atacama” project and applications to future Mars Missions [PDF]

, 2005
LITA develops and field tests a long-range automated rover and a science payload to search for microbial life in the Atacama. The Atacama's evolution provides a unique training ground for designing and testing exploration strategies and life detection ...
Cabrol, N. A., Calderon, F., Chong-Diaz, G., Cockell, C., Coppin, P., Dohm, J. M., Fisher, G., Grin, E. A., Heys, S., Hock, A. N., Jonak, D., Luders, A., Marinangeli, L., Minkley, N., Moersch, J. E., Ori, G. G., Pane, T., Piatek, J. L., Smith, T., Stubbs, K., Teza, J., Thompkins, P., Villa, D., Waggoner, A., Warren-Rhodes, K., Weinstein, S., Wettergree, D. S., Whittaker, R., Willams, C., Wyatt, M.   +29 more
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Soil Bacterial Communities From the Chilean Andean Highlands: Taxonomic Composition and Culturability

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2019
The Atacama Desert is a highly complex, extreme ecosystem which harbors microorganisms remarkable for their biotechnological potential. Here, a soil bacterial prospection was carried out in the high Altiplano region of the Atacama Desert (>3,800 m ...
Felipe Maza, Felipe Maza, Jonathan Maldonado, Jonathan Maldonado, Javiera Vásquez-Dean, Dinka Mandakovic, Dinka Mandakovic, Alexis Gaete, Alexis Gaete, Verónica Cambiazo, Verónica Cambiazo, Mauricio González, Mauricio González   +12 more
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Chondrites from the Atacama Desert

, 2005
Accepted ...
Valenzuela, EM, Bland, PA, Russell, SS, Roeschmann, C, Morata, D   +4 more
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Stone-banked Terraces in Atacama Desert

Annals of The Tohoku Geographycal Asocciation, 1970
In the survey of pediments near Antofagasta, Chile, the writer found stone-banked terraces. They occur on moderate slope facing to the Pacific Ocean. They have frontal banks less than 20 cm high and treads extending about 2 m back. On slopes steeper than 10 degree, their shapes become to be broken.The climate of the region is very arid and there is no ...
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Modulation of CMB polarization with a warm rapidly-rotating half-wave plate on the Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) instrument

, 2014
We evaluate the modulation of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization using a rapidly-rotating, half-wave plate (HWP) on the Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS).
Appel, J. W., Essinger-Hileman, T., Gallardo, P., Irwin, K. D., Jarosik, N., Kusaka, A., Nolta, M. R., Page, L. A., Parker, L. P., Raghunathan, S., Sievers, J. L., Simon, S. M., Staggs, S. T., Visnjic, K.   +13 more
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Diversidad y patrones de distribución geográfica de insectos coleópteros en ecosistemas desérticos de la región de Antofagasta, Chile Diversity and geographic distribution patterns of coleopteran insects in desert ecosystems of the Antofagasta region, Chile

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2000
La fauna coleopterológica de la Región de Antofagasta, ha sido objeto de diversos trabajos, pero hasta el momento falta un análisis de conjunto de la diversidad y distribución espacial de las especies.
VIVIANE JEREZ
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CLASS: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

, 2014
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is an experiment to measure the signature of a gravita-tional-wave background from inflation in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
Ali, Aamir, Amiri, Mandana, Appel, John W., Araujo, Derek, Bennett, Charles L., Boone, Fletcher, Chan, Manwei, Cho, Hsiao-Mei, Chuss, David T., Colazo, Felipe, Crowe, Erik, Denis, Kevin, Dünner, Rolando, Eimer, Joseph, Essinger-Hileman, Thomas, Gothe, Dominik, Halpern, Mark, Harrington, Kathleen, Hilton, Gene, Hinshaw, Gary F., Huang, Caroline, Irwin, Kent, Jones, Glenn, Karakla, John, Kogut, Alan J., Larson, David, Limon, Michele, Lowry, Lindsay, Marriage, Tobias, Mehrle, Nicholas, Miller, Amber D., Miller, Nathan, Moseley, Samuel H., Novak, Giles, Reintsema, Carl, Rostem, Karwan, Stevenson, Thomas, Towner, Deborah, U-Yen, Kongpop, Wagner, Emily, Watts, Duncan, Wollack, Edward, Xu, Zhilei, Zeng, Lingzhen   +43 more
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Robotic Technologies for Surveying Habitats and Seeking Evidence of Life: Results from the 2004 Field Experiments of the "Life in the Atacama" Project [PDF]

The Chilean Atacama Desert is the most arid region on Earth and in several ways analogous to Mars. Evidence suggests that the interior of the Atacama is lifeless, yet where the desert meets the Pacific coastal range dessication-tolerant microorganisms ...
Cabrol, N., Calderon, F., Diaz, G. Chong, Heys, S., Jonak, D., Lueders, A., Moersch, J., Pane, D., Wettergreen, D., Whittaker, W.   +9 more
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Description of Cervidellus hueckeswagensis sp. nov. and Stegelleta waltrautae sp. nov. (Nematoda: Rhabditida: Cephalobidae) from the Atacama Desert in Chile

European Journal of Taxonomy
Despite being the driest desert on earth, some areas of the Atacama receive precipitation and harbour a diverse fauna and flora. Two new nematode species are described from the more humid regions of the Atacama Desert.
Niclas Mach, Laura Pettrich, Laura Villegas, Ann-Marie Waldvogel, Philipp H. Schiffer, Oleksandr Holovachov   +5 more
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