Dr. Osvaldo Salazar

Department of Engineering and Soils, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

University of Chile, Chile

Associate Professor

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2009 Ph.D., Hydrotechnics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

2003 M.Sc., Soil Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

2001 B.Sc., Agricultural Sciences, University of Chile, Chile

Publications (Selected)

1. Salazar, O., Castro, M., Singh, R., & Ponstein, H. (2025). Evaluation of potential irrigation water savings by assessing the soil water balance in a vineyard in central Chile. Irrigation and Drainage, 74(1), 316-331.
2. Rojas Correa, M. F. (2025). Caracterización de la variación de la salinidad de suelos en la Región del Libertador Bernardo O´ Higgins.
3. Matus, F., Salazar, O., Aburto, F., Zamorano, D., Nájera, F., Jovanović, R., ... & Duarte, E. (2024). Perspective of soil carbon sequestration in Chilean volcanic soils. npj Materials Sustainability, 2(1), 32.
4. Tapia, Y., Salazar, O., Joven, A., Castillo, B., Urdiales, C., Garcia, A., ... & Acuña, E. (2024). Evaluation of sulfate rhizofiltration by Carpobrotus chilensis for treating mining waters. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 26(10), 1556-1563.
5. Tapia, Y., García, A., Acuña, E., Salazar, O., Casanova, M., Najera, F., ... & Neaman, A. (2024). Monitoring of chemical species in soils, waters and plants near the active copper mine tailing dam Ovejeria (Central Chile). Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 235(3), 176.
6. Salazar, O., Benvenuto, A., Fajardo, M., Fuentes, J. P., Nájera, F., Celedón, A., ... & Casanova, M. (2023). Evaluation of a miniaturized portable NIR spectrometer for the prediction of soil properties in Mediterranean central Chile. Geoderma Regional, 34, e00675.
7. Castillo, B., Acuña, E., Sánchez, A., Cornejo, P., Salazar, O., & Tapia, Y. (2023). Phytostabilization of trace elements and 13C isotope composition of Atriplex atacamensis Phil. cultivated in mine tailings treated with organic amendments. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195(3), 354.
8. Perez-Quezada, J. F., Cano, S., Ibaceta, P., Aguilera-Riquelme, D., Salazar, O., Fuentes, J. P., & Osborne, B. (2022). How do land cover changes affect carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus stocks and the greenhouse gas budget of ecosystems in southern Chile?. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 340, 108153.
9. Salazar, O., Chinchilla-Soto, C., de los Santos-Villalobos, S., Ayala, M., Benavides, L., Berriel, V., ... & Heng, L. (2022). Water consumption by agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: impact of climate change and applications of nuclear and isotopic techniques. International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 49(1), 1-21.
10. Salazar, O., Casanova, M., Fuentes, J. P., Galleguillos, M., Nájera, F., Perez-Quezada, J. F., ... & Tapia, Y. (2022). Soil research, management, and policy priorities in Chile.
11. Salazar, O., Diaz, R., Nario, A., Videla, X., Alonso-Ayuso, M., & Quemada, M. (2021). Nitrogen Fertilizer efficiency determined by the 15N dilution technique in maize followed or not by a cover crop in Mediterranean Chile. Agriculture, 11(8), 721.
12. Salazar, O., Rojas, C., Baginsky, C., Boza, S., Lankin, G., Muñoz-Sáez, A., ... & Altieri, M. (2020). Challenges for agroecology development for the building of sustainable agri-food systems. International journal of agriculture and natural resources, 47, 152-158.
13. Casanova, M., Ticona, B., Salazar, O., Gratacós, E., Pfeiffer, M., Ávila, G., ... & Sabaini, C. (2020). Physical assessment of a Mollisol under agroecological management at Quillota valley, Mediterranean Central Chile. International journal of agriculture and natural resources, 47(3), 261-279.
14. Arrouays, D., Poggio, L., Guerrero, O. A. S., & Mulder, V. L. (2020). Digital soil mapping and GlobalSoilMap. Main advances and ways forward. Geoderma Regional, 21, e00265.
15. Pfeiffer, M., Padarian, J., Osorio, R., Bustamante, N., Olmedo, G. F., Guevara, M., ... & Zagal, E. (2020). CHLSOC: the Chilean Soil Organic Carbon database, a multi-institutional collaborative effort. Earth System Science Data, 12(1), 457-468.
16. Tapia, Y., Loch, B., Castillo, B., Acuña, E., Casanova, M., Salazar, O., ... & Antilén, M. (2020). Accumulation of sulphur in Atriplex nummularia cultivated in mine tailings and effect of organic amendments addition. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 231(1), 8.
17. Salazar, O., Balboa, L., Peralta, K., Rossi, M., Casanova, M., Tapia, Y., ... & Quemada, M. (2019). Effect of cover crops on leaching of dissolved organic nitrogen and carbon in a maize-cover crop rotation in Mediterranean Central Chile. Agricultural Water Management, 212, 399-406.
18. Salazar, O., Fuentes, I., Seguel, O., Nájera, F., & Casanova, M. (2018). Assessment of nitrogen and phosphorus pathways at the profile of over-fertilised alluvial soils. Implications for best management practices. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 229(7), 223.
19. Tapia, Y., Bustos, P., Salazar, O., Casanova, M., Castillo, B., Acuña, E., & Masaguer, A. (2017). Phytostabilization of Cu in mine tailings using native plant Carpobrotus aequilaterus and the addition of potassium humates. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 183, 102-113.
20. Salazar, O., Nájera, F., Tapia, W., & Casanova, M. (2017). Evaluation of the DAISY model for predicting nitrogen leaching in coarse-textured soils cropped with maize in the Mediterranean zone of Chile. Agricultural Water Management, 182, 77-86.
21. Casanova, M., Tapia, E., Seguel, O., & Salazar, O. (2016). Direct measurement and prediction of bulk density on alluvial soils of central Chile. Chilean journal of agricultural research, 76(1), 105-113.
22. Nájera, F., Tapia, Y., Baginsky, C., Figueroa, V., Cabeza, R., & Salazar, O. (2015). Evaluation of soil fertility and fertilisation practices for irrigated maize (Zea mays L.) under Mediterranean conditions in central Chile. Journal of soil science and plant nutrition, 15(1), 84-97.

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