PhD, In progress: Civil Engineering (Water Resources), University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
MSc, 2023: Geography (Centre for Hydrology), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
BSc, 2020: Geography, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2019-2021: Consultant, Multiple projects in water resources, Santiago, Chile.
Ignacio is a PhD Candidate at the University of Calgary. Ignacio’s research focuses on quantifying and reducing uncertainty in land-surface and hydrological models, particularly in evapotranspiration and streamflow. Key interests are (i) using traditional and machine learning emulators to calibrate models, (ii) quantifying and reducing structural uncertainty, and (iii) science communication. Ignacio has published his work in leading international journals, including Hydrological Sciences Journal, Science of the Total Environment, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Journal of Arid Environments, and Atmospheric Research.
Orieschnig, C., Adla, S., Chun, K. P., Srivastava, S., Morovati, K., Howard, B. C., … & Zappa, M. (2026). Effective science communication in the face of water crises: a community perspective on challenges and best practice in HELPING. Hydrological Sciences Journal, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2026.2625282
Keim-Vera, K., Lobos-Roco, F., Aguirre, I., Merino, C., & Del Río, C. (2024). Fog types frequency and their collectable water potential in the Atacama Desert. Atmospheric Research, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107747
Aguirre, I., Hood, G. A., & Westbrook, C. J. (2024). Short-term dynamics of beaver dam flow states. Science of the Total Environment, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170825
Lobos-Roco, F., Suárez, F., Aguirre-Correa, F., Keim, K., Aguirre, I., Vargas, C., … & Del Río, C. (2024). Understanding inland fog and dew dynamics for assessing potential non-rainfall water use in the Atacama. Journal of Arid Environments, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105125
Suárez, F., Oportus, T., Mendoza, M., Aguirre, I., Godoy, V., & Muñoz, J. F. (2024). Evaporation processes in the Silala River basin. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 11(1), doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1638
About CAPE: We bring together observations, models, and data science to improve understanding and prediction of hydrological processes across scales from hillslopes to continents.
Land and Water Acknowledgement: We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on Treaty 7 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis, Tsuut'ina, Stoney, and Blackfoot. We thank these nations for their care and stewardship over this land and water, and we pay respect to the ancestors of these places.