Colleagues of Argentinian scientist Ricardo Villalba have protested an indictment he faces for allegedly favouring a mining company in a survey of Patagonian glaciers.
Scientists working at the Scientific Technological Centre of Mendoza (Conicet), where Villalba is based, are calling for a march in his support, local newspaper Los Andes reported on 3 December.
Villalba was accused of abusing his authority by manipulating a government survey of glaciers in Patagonia, the southern tip of South America, for the benefit of mining companies. He led Argentina’s first comprehensive glacier inventory in 2012, working with the National Institute of Snow, Ice and Environmental Research where he was based at the time, the journal Science reported on 5 December.
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