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This is Tom Dillehay. I solo directed the work at Monte Verde and corrected the sentence as to who did the work. Mario Pino was one of 50 different scientist who worked on the project. He was the geologists and not the director.rr
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UACh is one of the leading universities of Chile in matters of scientific research. It was ranked second only to the University of Chile in scientific research by ''[[El Mercurio]]'' and was the third university to receive most of government ''Mecesup'' research funds in 2008.<ref name=emol/><ref>[https://archive.today/20130115225627/http://www.universia.cl/portada/actualidad/noticia_actualidad.jsp?noticia=143845 Universidad Austral de Chile se adjudica 1.582 millones en el Concurso Mecesup 2008] Universia</ref> Some of the fields where UACh scientists have made contributions include:
 
*'''Archaeology:''' In [[archeology]] university scientists [[Mario Pino Quivira|Mario Pino]] andscientist [[Tom Dillehay]], led the excavations of at [[Monte Verde]], one of the earliest [[archaeological site]]s in the Americas. Another site investigated by university scientists is [[Chan-Chan]] a site that gives name to the [[Archaic period in the Americas|Archaic]] [[Chan-Chan|Chan-Chan Complex]].<ref name=pino>{{in lang|es}} [[Mario Pino Quivira|Pino, Mario]] and Navarro, Rayen. [http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0716-02082005000100004&script=sci_arttext Geoarqueología del sitio arcaico Chan-Chan 18]. ''[[Andean Geology|Revista Geológica de Chile]]'', 2005.</ref>
*'''Dairy technology and science:''' The university's ''Centro Tecnológico de la Leche'' (lit. Milk Technology Centre) have been credited by scholar Paulina Rytkönen for being behind the higher dairy productivity in [[Los Ríos Region]] when compared with adjacent [[Los Lagos Region]].<ref>Rytkönen, P. Fruits of Capitalism: Modernization of Chilean Agriculture, 1950-2000. ''Lund Studies in Economic History'', 31, p. 39.</ref>
*'''Dendrochronology:''' Scientists at the [[Dendrochronology]] Laboratory of UACh has set up the longest dendrochronology in the [[Southern Hemisphere]] going back 5666 years. Researchers have also reconstructed the temperatures of the last 3622 years with [[tree ring]]s from [[Fitzroya]] and have used a dendrochronology network of [[Lenga Beech]], spanning from [[Talca]] to [[Navarino Island]], to investigate [[global warming]] in the recent decades.<ref>[http://www.dendrocronologia.cl/lab_quienes.html ¿Quiénes somos?] Laboratorio de Dendrocronología</ref>