06/A405

Los riesgos naturales originados por la nieve y los glaciares en la cuenca superior del Río Mendoza, su manejo y control.
Natural hazards of the Mendoza river upper basin caused by snow and glaciers. Control and management.

Director: LEIVA, Juan Carlos
Correo Electrónico: jleiva@fca.uncu.edu.ar

Co-Director: MARTINEZ, Hugo Héctor

Integrantes: BEVAQUA, Antonio A.; REMUÑAN, José Daniel; VIDAL, Rubén Alejandro; NACIF, Daniel Héctor; NORA, Alicia; SANTA MARIA, Alejandro Daniel; SLIPAK, Mónica Beatriz; BRUCE, Roberto Haroldo; MACKERN, María Virginia; LENZANO, Luis Eduardo; VICH, Alberto Ismael Juan; VIALE, Maximiliano; CASTELLER, Alejandro; LENZANO, María Gabriela; ROBIN, Ana María; CORVALAN, Ernesto; ORTUBIA, Juan Domingo.

Summary: The management and control of natural hazards caused by snow and glaciers is tha main goal of the project. The project comprises the results of previous ones and integrates in a new multidisciplinary research. It is applied research backing an ongoing technological development in answer to a region problematic. The project will increase scientific knowledge on natural hazards and when transferred it shall derive in an engineering product, feasible of immediate application to minimize the risk of natural hazards in the upper basin of the Mendoza river. This minimization of natural hazard disaster in the upper basin of the Mendoza River is the project main goal, attained through a better knowledge of the causes (dynamics and conditions enabling its occurrence) and frequencies. The procedure will be to select those sites where there is a historical record of the various phenomena (landslides, avalanches, dangerous glaciers, and alluvial basins). The research will focus on these sites to establish alternatives for defense, management  and control. Given that the study area involves the high mountain Ruta Nacional #7, the project results directly applied to said route will better transit conditions, specially during the winter. Therefore it will yield economic benefits for the region and the country, as it is the main MERCOSUR nexus with the Pacific.