Biography

PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Lausanne, with a focus on mountain geomorphology, geomatics/remote sensing, and field logistics, with an MSc from the University of Otago and a BSc from the University of Chile. My PhD and MSc studies developed my skills in mountain geomorphology and glaciology, analysing landforms and processes that shape mountain landscapes. I have developed expertise in geomatics and remote sensing techniques using tools like Geographic Information Systems (GIS), drone surveys, and satellite imagery to analyse and monitor changes in mountains. These skills have been applied in field studies across various mountain ranges such as the Alps, Southern Alps of New Zealand, and the Andes.

Research and publications

• Publications
  22 publications

  2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2017 2016 2012 2009

  Characterizing ground ice content and origin to better understand the seasonal surface dynamics of the Gruben rock glacier and the adjacent Gruben debris-covered glacier (southern Swiss Alps)
  Coline Mollaret, Julie Wee, Sebastián Vivero, Tamara Mathys, Christian Hauck, Christophe Lambiel, Jan Beutel, Wilfried Haeberli, (2024) | Preprint

  Monitoring a high mountain glacier through georeferenced time-lapse photography: Tapado, Dry Andes of Chile (30°S)
  Sebastián Vivero, Remote Sensing Letters (2024) | Journal article

  Monitoring the physical processes driving the mass loss of Tapado Glacier, Desert Andes of Chile
  Shelley MacDonell, Alvaro Ignacio Ayala Ramos, Benjamin Aubrey Robson, Gonzalo Navarro, Nicole Schaffer, Alexis Segovia, Michal Petlicki, Christophe Kinnard, Simone Schauwecker, Gino Casassa, Sebastián Vivero, Augusto Lima (2024) | Other

  Inventory and kinematics of active and transitional rock glaciers in the Southern Alps of New Zealand from Sentinel-1 InSAR
  Christophe Lambiel, Tazio Strozzi, Nicolas Paillex, Sebastián Vivero, Nina Jones, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (2023) | Journal article

  Global Climate
  Nadine Gobron, Robert J. H. Dunn, John B. Miller, Kate M. Willett, Melanie Ades, Robert Adler, Mihai Alexe, Richard P. Allan, John Anderson, Orlane Anneville, Yasuyuki Aono, Anthony Arguez, Carlo Arosio, John A. Augustine, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Jonathan Barichivich, John E. Barnes, Hylke E. Beck, Nicolas Bellouin, Angela Benedetti, Kevin Blagrave, Stephen Blenkinsop, Olivier Bock, Xavier Bodin, Michael Bosilovich, Olivier Boucher, Dennis Buechler, Stefan A. Buehler, Diego Campos, Laura Carrea, Eui-Seok Chung, Kai-Lan Chang, Hanne H. Christiansen, John R. Christy, Laura M. Ciasto, Scott Clingan, Melanie Coldewey-Egbers, Owen R. Cooper, Richard C. Cornes, Curt Covey, Jean-François Créatux, Theresa Crimmins, Thomas Cropper, Molly Crotwell, Joshua Culpepper, Diego Cusicanqui, Sean M. Davis, Richard A. M. de Jeu, Doug Degenstein, Reynald Delaloye, Martin T. Dokulil, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2023) | Journal article

  Kinematics and geomorphological changes of a destabilising rock glacier captured from close-range sensing techniques (Tsarmine rock glacier, Western Swiss Alps)
  Sebastián Vivero and Hanne Hendrickx and Amaury Frankl and Reynald Delaloye and Christophe Lambiel, Frontiers in Earth Science (2022) | Journal article

  Global Climate
  Robert J. H. Dunn, Freya Aldred, Nadine Gobron, John B. Miller, Kate M. Willett, Melanie Ades, Robert Adler, R. P. Allan, John Anderson, Orlane Anneville, Yasuyuki Aono, Anthony Argüez, Carlo Arosio, John A. Augustine, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Jonathan Barichivich, Aman Basu, Hylke E. Beck, Nicolas Bellouin, Angela Benedetti, Kevin Blagrave, Stephen Blenkinsop, Olivier Bock, Xavier Bodin, Michael G. Bosilovich, Olivier Boucher, Gerald Bove, Dennis Buechler, Stefan A. Buehler, Laura Carrea, Kai-Lan Chang, Hanne H. Christiansen, John R. Christy, Eui-Seok Chung, Laura M. Ciasto, Melanie Coldewey-Egbers, Owen R. Cooper, Richard C. Cornes, Curt Covey, Thomas Cropper, Molly Crotwell, Diego Cusicanqui, Sean M. Davis, Richard A. M. de Jeu, Doug Degenstein, Reynald Delaloye, Markus G. Donat, Wouter A. Dorigo, Imke Durre, Geoff S. Dutton, Gregory Duveiller, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2022) | Journal article

  Long-term development and decoupled kinematics of two adjacent rock glaciers in the Swiss Alps
  Christophe Lambiel, Sebastián Vivero, Sébastien de Meris, Georgina King, Cristian Scapozza, (2022) | Preprint

  The Rock Glacier Inventories and Kinematics (RGIK) Action Group: status and future directions
  Sebastián Vivero, Cécile Pellet, (2022) | Preprint

  Ice Dynamics and Morphological Changes During Proglacial Lake Development at Exploradores Glacier, Patagonia
  Inigo Irarrazaval and Alejandro Dussaillant and Sebastián Vivero and Pablo Iribarren-Anacona and Gregoire Mariethoz, Frontiers in Earth Science (2022) | Journal article

  Glacier and rock glacier changes since the 1950s in the La Laguna catchment, Chile
  Benjamin Aubrey Robson, Shelley MacDonell, Álvaro Ayala, Tobias Bolch, Pål Ringkjøb Nielsen, Sebastián Vivero, The Cryosphere (2022) | Journal article

  Combination of Aerial, Satellite, and UAV Photogrammetry for Quantifying Rock Glacier Kinematics in the Dry Andes of Chile (30°S) Since the 1950s
  Sebastián Vivero and Xavier Bodin and David Farías-Barahona and Shelley MacDonell and Nicole Schaffer and Benjamin Aubrey Robson and Christophe Lambiel, Frontiers in Remote Sensing (2021) | Journal article

  L'usage des drones pour le suivi des glaciers rocheux , in GeoAgenda 2
  Lambiel, Christophe and Vivero, Sebastián (1.6.2021) , p. 34–37 | Press article

  A near 90-year record of the evolution of El Morado Glacier and its proglacial lake, Central Chilean Andes
  David Farías-Barahona and Ryan Wilson and Claudio Bravo and Sebastián Vivero and Alexis Caro and Thomas E. Shaw and Gino Casassa and Álvaro Ayala and Alonso Mejías and Stephan Harrison and Neil F. Glasser and James McPhee and Olaf Wündrich and Matthias H. Braun, Journal of Glaciology (2020) | Journal article

  60 Years of Glacier Elevation and Mass Changes in the Maipo River Basin, Central Andes of Chile
  David Farías-Barahona and Álvaro Ayala and Claudio Bravo and Sebastián Vivero and Thorsten Seehaus and Saurabh Vijay and Marius Schaefer and Franco Buglio and Gino Casassa and Matthias H. Braun, Remote Sensing (2020) | Journal article

  Monitoring the crisis of a rock glacier with repeated UAV surveys
  Sebastián Vivero and Christophe Lambiel, Geographica Helvetica (2019) | Journal article

  The reproducibility of SfM algorithms to produce detailed Digital Surface Models: the example of PhotoScan applied to a high-alpine rock glacier
  Hanne Hendrickx and Sebastián Vivero and Laure De Cock and Bart De Wit and Philippe De Maeyer and Christophe Lambiel and Reynald Delaloye and Jan Nyssen and Amaury Frankl, Remote Sensing Letters (2019) | Journal article

  Geodetic Mass Balances and Area Changes of Echaurren Norte Glacier (Central Andes, Chile) between 1955 and 2015
  David Farías-Barahona and Sebastián Vivero and Gino Casassa and Marius Schaefer and Flavia Burger and Thorsten Seehaus and Pablo Iribarren-Anacona and Fernando Escobar and Matthias Braun, Remote Sensing (2019) | Journal article

  Recent Deceleration of the Ice Elevation Change of Ecology Glacier (King George Island, Antarctica)
  Pętlicki, Michał and Sziło, Joanna and MacDonell, Shelley and Vivero, Sebastián and Bialik, Robert J., Remote Sensing (2017) | Journal article

  Modelling the hydrological response of debris-free and debris-covered glaciers to present climatic conditions in the semiarid Andes of central Chile
  A. Ayala and F. Pellicciotti and S. MacDonell and J. McPhee and S. Vivero and C. Campos and P. Egli, Hydrological Processes (2016) | Journal article

  A New Digital Terrain Model for the Tasman Glacier, New Zealand, using Digital Photogrammetry Techniques , in Mapping Mountain Dynamics : From Glaciers to Volcanoes
  Vivero, Sebastián and Sirguey, Pascal and Fitzsimons, Sean and Soruco, Alvaro (2012) | Book chapter

  Estrategia Nacional De Glaciares
  Rivera, Andrés and Bown, Francisca and Bravo, Claudio and Carrión, Daniela and Casassa, Gino and Flores, C. and López, Paulina and Rada, Camilo and Vivero, Sebastián and Zenteno, Pablo (Santiago, Chile: Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECS) - Dirección General de Aguas (DGA), 2009) | Book chapter