From Hand-Lenses to Telescopes: The Best Way to Explore the Micro- and Macrocosms in Natural Laboratories in Extreme Zones of Chile and the World
A Chilean-German Workshop
11.08.2021
This multi-institutional and interdisciplinary workshop assesses the value of the work performed in and by natural laboratories. Participants will have a closer look at the astronomical observatories in the Atacama Desert managed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the new Cape Horn International Center (CHIC) in Puerto Williams.
Participants of this workshop will be discussing the value of getting involved with those forms of life that exist on the brink of our own imagination. This shall lead to better understanding of the biosphere and future prevention of environmental degradation depends on cultural change and the re-embedment of humankind in these micro- and macrocosms of the world.
Participants
Christof Mauch (Director of the RCC)
Matías Undurraga (Consul General of Chile in Munich)
Ricardo Rozzi (Director of CHIC and RCC fellow)
Xavier Barcons (Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO))
Teresa Paneque (astronomer)
Kurt Jax (Department Naturschutzforschung Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ)
Christian Printzen (Head of the Cryptogame Section Senckenberg Naturmuseum)
Laura Sánchez (University of Magallanes, Chile)
Martín Fonck (doctoral student at the RCC and the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU)
José Miguel Aguilera (former president of Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT); P. Universidad Católica de Chile)