Professional Experience Exchange Workshop on Modeling Systems
April 7th, 2025
IFOP researchers presented the experiences and developments in numerical modeling achieved by the Department of the Environment of the Aquaculture Division and the Department of Oceanography and Environment of the Fisheries Research Division at the Professional Experience Exchange Workshop on Modeling Systems held at DIRECTEMAR facilities on April 2 in Valparaíso.
This workshop provided an exchange of experiences with other institutions, such as the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy (SHOA), the Metrological Service of the Navy (SERVIMET), the Meteorological Directorate of Chile, and the University of Valparaíso.
Geophysicist Oliver Venegas Mella, a researcher at the Department of the Environment, demonstrated the years of progress achieved in implementing the Chonos Platform, with its operational complexity to achieve short-term forecasts in the inland regions south of Puerto Montt.
On the other hand, Dr. Jaime Letelier, head of the Department of Oceanography and Environment, presented the impact of knowing and predicting through medium and long-term numerical models, in the conservation of fishery resources and the sustainable development of fishing activities in the eastern South Pacific, with emphasis on the advances in the modeling of the anchovy habitat (southern Peru and northern Chile) addressed in the GEF Humboldt 2 project and in the Climate Change Observation System (S.A.P.O).