The Early Research Program is an EGSciences initiative focused on orientating university students to conduct investigations on fields of interest to them. The aim of this program is to improve the analysis and to conduct further investigations of a specific topic in geosciences and engineering Students are supported by principal investigators, who are professionals or academics, specialists in areas such as mining, engineering, geology, and civil engineering.
During 2020, 13 research topics were carried out:
“Exploration and mining potential of gold and cobalt in “Cordillera de la Costa”. A study of Tectonics and metallogeny in the Central-South Andes”
"Soil-structure interaction: Use of micropiles as foundations, slope protections and retaining”
“Climate Change - Desertification and natural disasters in the north of Chile”
“Geomechanical parameters of sedimentary coarse soils. Study of Chile Hydrographic basins”
“Geomechanical parameters of metamorphic rocks”
“Caving: A look from deep tunnels - Caving, numerical modeling, geotechnical risks, deep tunnels, rock mechanics”
“Geothermal resources assessment through geological analogues”
“Hydrogeological study of the Loa River Basin”
“Mass wasting and its anthropic factor in quebrada Salar del Carmen y La Cadena”
“Geophysical studies applied to geotechnical characterization of coarse granular materials”
“State-of-the-Art on geotechnical characterization of saline soils”
“Repeatability on shear strength laboratory tests of soils (triaxial compression and direct shear)”
“Alternatives to the use of relative density (DR %) in Coarse Granular Materials”
