Earth Sciences, Ph.D. student Juan Luis García recipient of the 2010 J. Hoover Mackin Student Research Award from the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America

UMaine Earth Sciences graduate student Juan Luis García has won the 2010 J. Hoover Mackin Student Research Award from the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America. This prestigious award will help support García's doctoral research on the glacial and climate history of Torres del Paine region in southern Chile. The main goal of his research is to unravel the drivers of Holocene glacier-climate  fluctuations with a Southern Hemisphere perspective. His research will provide estimates of paleoclimate variability and the environmental conditions for early human development in Southern South America, in addition to the past climate context prior to the 20th-21st century glacier changes.