Development at Any Cost: A False Premise
Photo credit: Octavio Aburto Development at Any Cost: A False Premise A new age of mining has dramatically expanded in recent years. Open pit, extensive, corporate, and multinational operations threaten the Mexican landscape. The prospect of ecological disasters looms across one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.This shadow is darkest in the Sonoran Desert. This is […]
Seri language classes
Stephen A. Marlett In the fall of 2013 and the spring of 2014 my wife Cathy and I spent about four months in the village of Desemboque. During those weeks I was teaching a group of students (about 15 in all, mostly in their 20’s) to videotape themselves interviewing the older members of the community […]
Notas del campo — Desemboque, Sonora, otoño 2013
Carolyn O’Meara (UNAM, IIFL) y Isabel Martínez (UNAM, IIE) El 21 de noviembre, después de un largo viaje desde el DF (con unas paradas en Mazatlán, Hermosillo y Bahía de Kino), finalmente llegamos a Desemboque, Sonora, uno de los dos pueblos de los Comcaac, que está ubicado alrededor de 3 horas de Hermosillo y alrededor […]
¿Qué tanto conocemos a nuestros insectos?
A manera de introducción, esta sesión se enfocó en conocer el conocimiento o “des” conocimiento de la entomofauna del Desierto Sonorense, con la justificación de que los insectos son parte fundamental de los ecosistemas por diversas razones y que tener conocimiento de varios aspectos acerca de su diversidad, biología e importancia.
Species invasions
We mostly focused on buffelgrass, although Tom Bowen brought up his plans to rid the islands he works with of tamarisk at the end of the discussion.
Plant-animal/microbes interactions: past, present, future, and the humans
Plant-animal and plant-microbe interactions are fundamental components of biodiversity and are vital to ecosystem functioning. Given the extreme conditions of desert environments, plants and animals face great challenges to survival, and their interactions appear particularly dramatic and crucial.
Genetics & Genomics in the Sonoran Desert
We started by briefly summarizing some of the next-generation DNA sequencing technologies as 454 pyrosequencing, Illumina and Ion Torrent, in terms of data output and cost.
Desert Oasis Science and Conservation
We began with a series of questions that participants had about oases, posed to thegroup to be answered in turn or to lead to further research
4-D Geologic Evolution of the Gulf of California
Discussion will focus on the current state of binational research pertaining to the 4-D geologic evolution of the Gulf of California (in both time (1- D) and space (3-D)).
Flying genes, bats and the organ pipe cactus
by Alberto Búrquez I remember watching the Sea of Cortez from the “Mancha Blanca”, a beach south of Desemboque the largest settlement of the Comcaac people in the coast of the Gulf of California. That happened when I was a child at the end of the 1950s. I remember each annual expedition as a voyage […]
