Funded by a NERC International Seedcorn Partnership (2025-2026).

Principal Investigator: Dr Steven Palmer; Co-Investigator: Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin.

The aim of the project is to develop sustainable citizen-led science and international collaborations to address the pressing issue of declining water availability, access, and usability in glacierised catchments in the Chilean Andes. Glacier retreat threatens the quantity and quality of water resources for human populations and ecosystems in glacierised catchments worldwide to understand the influence of glacier retreat on the availability and quality of water resources, it is essential to study not only changes in glacial water storage and run-off, but also how complex social interactions affect access to, and use of, glacier-fed water supplies