Patagonia will host a symposium that showcases a long-term open-air observatory integrating natural and social sciences to address pressing socioecological challenges. The symposium will highlight themes such as biodiversity and environmental change, climate and landscape dynamics, gender as a way of knowing nature, and tourism and scientific outreach.

About the conveners

Paul Amouroux is Assistant Professor at the "Hémera" Earth Observation Center, Universidad Mayor (Chile). His research focuses on applied entomology and biodiversity, bridging traditional taxonomy and systematics with innovative approaches such as DNA-based methods and remote sensing technologies (e.g., camera traps). He has contributed to both national projects across the public and private sectors, as well as international research initiatives.

Alejandro Salazar is Director of the Patagonia Interdisciplinary Research Station UC (EPII UC) and of the International Human-Environment Observatory (OHMi) Patagonia–Bahía Exploradores, a Laboratory of Excellence under DRIIHM, ANR, and INEE-CNRS, France. His research interests include peri-urbanization, urban–rural relations linked to the concept of new rurality, geographic isolation, socio-environmental interactions, and applied and environmental geography. He has served as principal investigator on various scientific projects and as advisor and coordinator in multiple public and private studies on territorial analysis.

Claudia Matus is Director of the Educational Justice Center (CJE), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has led national and international projects on normality, difference, and the gender norm. Her interests focus on developing a Bio Socio-Cultural theoretical line to study inequalities based on a flat ontology between biological and socio-cultural spheres. Her main areas of study are gender norm production, inequalities from a Bio Socio-Cultural perspective, and contemporary methodological practices.