{"id":498,"date":"2026-11-05T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/?p=498"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:31:46","slug":"fallece-el-dr-lonnie-g-thompson-quien-visito-huaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Fallece el Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson quien visit\u00f3 Huaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-499\" src=\"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Dr.-LONNIE-THOMPSON.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"857\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Dr.-LONNIE-THOMPSON.jpg 857w, https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Dr.-LONNIE-THOMPSON-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Dr.-LONNIE-THOMPSON-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Dr.-LONNIE-THOMPSON-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eminente glaci\u00f3logo que descifr\u00f3 los secretos del Huascar\u00e1n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La comunidad cient\u00edfica internacional y la regi\u00f3n \u00c1ncash lamentan la partida del Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, considerado uno de los m\u00e1s distinguidos cient\u00edficos en el estudio de los glaciares tropicales. Reconocido en 2025 con el premio \u201cCiencia Ambiental\u201d, dedic\u00f3 su vida a reconstruir miles de a\u00f1os de historia clim\u00e1tica a trav\u00e9s del estudio de los hielos andinos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Expediciones hist\u00f3ricas al Huascar\u00e1n: Lider\u00f3 la emblem\u00e1tica expedici\u00f3n de 1993 en la Cordillera Blanca, logrando extraer dos n\u00facleos de hielo hasta alcanzar el lecho rocoso (de 160,4 y 166,1 metros) para analizar polvo, sulfatos e is\u00f3topos de ox\u00edgeno. En 2019 regres\u00f3 a la cumbre (a 6,768 m s. n. m.) recuperando cuatro n\u00facleos adicionales que permitieron comparar la velocidad del cambio clim\u00e1tico.<\/p>\n<p>Monitoreo en el Quelccaya: Evalu\u00f3 durante d\u00e9cadas el casquete glaciar Quelccaya (Cusco), documentando que entre 1985 y 2022 la superficie de nieve disminuy\u00f3 en 58 % y la masa glaciar total en 37 %, evidenciando el severo impacto del fen\u00f3meno El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Alerta sobre el recurso h\u00eddrico: Thompson advirti\u00f3 de forma persistente sobre la p\u00e9rdida irreversible de los glaciares tropicales, se\u00f1alando que estos funcionan como sistemas de alerta temprana y que su desintegraci\u00f3n afectar\u00e1 directamente la generaci\u00f3n de energ\u00eda y las fuentes de agua en el Per\u00fa. (Arnaldo Mej\u00eda Boj\u00f3rquez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eminente glaci\u00f3logo que descifr\u00f3 los secretos del Huascar\u00e1n La comunidad cient\u00edfica internacional y la regi\u00f3n \u00c1ncash lamentan la partida del Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, considerado uno de los m\u00e1s distinguidos cient\u00edficos en el estudio de los glaciares tropicales. Reconocido en 2025 con el premio \u201cCiencia Ambiental\u201d, dedic\u00f3 su vida a reconstruir miles de a\u00f1os de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destacados","category-regionales","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prensaregionalhuaraz.com.pe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}