Encuesta Hospitality 2025: una fotografía para seguir mejorando
The Hospitality area plays a key role in the daily experience of those who work and live at OSF and AOS. Food service, housekeeping, maintenance, reception, and transportation are services that operate continuously and in a coordinated manner, especially in an environment as demanding as ours. Behind each shift...
Yo Recomiendo: Fabiola Norambuena
On 23 June we commemorated Women in Engineering Day, an important date for our observatory and for science, which seeks to highlight the valuable contribution of women in this field. In this sense, Fabiola Norambuena, our Software Engineer Trainee, has been a source of inspiration for...
Los OKRs: parte la nueva era de coordinación en ALMA
"The future is here"; "All eyes in the sky"; "Shaping a future of seamless innovation and unmatched efficiency". These phrases are some of the goals to be achieved in the Objective, Key & Results (OKRs): the new working channel that defines the line of communication between...
Yo Recomiendo: Marta Allendes
Marta Allendes' life is marked by international postcards. Our Hospitality Services Coordinator started at the age of 20 doing an internship in hospitality in the United States and, since then, worked for many seasons outside of Chile until the pandemic arrived. "For me it is very...
Primeros frente a la emergencia: La Brigada de ALMA
It was around 8 p.m. when the alerts went off at the Jama border crossing. On 25 April, the driver of a bus carrying Brazilian tourists had lost control, killing two people and injuring 40. While the local media were recording the tragedy, a team wearing...
Nuestra nueva RDE&I Officer adelanta su plan 2025 de Diversidad Cultural en ALMA
"It was unreachable". That was the impression that Valezka Galdames, our new Respect, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, had of ALMA before taking up her position on 8 April. The desert and its climate takes her back to her youth in Chuquicamata, where she lived for...
Vecinos en altura: El Chajnantor Working Group
Did you know that near our antennas we have a Guinness World Record? That is the case of the TAO Project, the Japanese observatory that was inaugurated this month at 5,640 metres above sea level. What science will it be able to achieve, what will its...