N-Gen Newsletter, August 2017
Dear N-GenHappy Summer! With summer in full swing, we wanted to share relevant updates with the greater N-Gen Sonoran Desert Researchers community. In this update you will learn more about our ever-growing network – now over 500 people!, recent publications, and research advances related to the Sonoran Desert. Are you looking for research funding? Be […]
Communicating Science Up and Down in the Gulf of California – Video
N-Gen held the workshop “Communicating Science Up and Down in the Gulf of California” December 7-9, 2016 at CICESE in Ensenada, Baja California. Video by Arte Vivo Producciones, carlosaguilera@artevivo.org Interviewees, in order of appearance: María Alejandra Sanchéz – UABC Julieta Fierro – UNAM María José Espinosa – COBI Aida Otalora – UNAM Efraín Leonel Hoeffer – […]
The Ensenada Manifesto
N-Gen convened a science communications workshop in the city of Ensenada, Baja California, from December 7-9, 2016. The workshop brought together researchers from natural and social sciences as well as science communicators to engage in interdisciplinary discussion to strengthen the outreach capacity of researchers in the Sonoran Desert and the Gulf of California. Participants created […]
N-Gen Newsletter, March 2017
Dear N-Gen, As we all begin to settle in to 2017 we wanted to update you on recent activities and N-Gen developments. In addition to looking forward and best addressing the new political landscape in our countries and our region as we recently wrote you about, the past six months have been a productive […]
N-GEN-CONABIO Carta de Intención de Colaboración
A Crack In The Earth: Where Desert Oases And Plate Tectonics Collide
Scott Bennett, Michael Bogan, Michael Darin “You know, at one of these freshwater springs I’ve been studying, there are these striations on the rocks and the steep-walled canyon comes to an abrupt end, as if the Earth is opening up, “ aquatic ecologist, Michael Bogan told geologists Scott Bennett and Michael Darin. “We could all […]
Update December 2015
Dear N-Gen / Estimado N-Gen, At over 350 members and coming off our second remarkable Summit, N-Gen is stronger than ever! Just four years ago we were asking ourselves if a community of Sonoran Desert researchers really existed. Having that question resoundingly answered YES! we shifted to figuring out the best way to capitalize on […]
N-Gen Lab Meeting 19 Aug 2015
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/h2QfKS-BV3I”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Water resources and global change: From the Arizona-Sonora borderlands to the Arid Americas Christopher Scott, Professor and Distinguished Scholar, University of Arizona and Director, CAZMEX – Consortium for Arizona-Mexico Arid Environments This presentation takes a social-ecological systems approach to better understand human and climatic drivers of river-basin water resources. With an emphasis on the […]
N-Gen Lab Meeting 15 July 2015
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/fro7T8UrXqI”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When culture shapes the environment: Culinary markers of northwestern Mexico and the ecological consequences of carne asada Nemer E. Narchi [1, 2], Alberto Búrquez [3], Sarah Trainer [4], Rodrigo F. Rentería-Valencia [5] Abstract Carne asada, the art of grilling and consuming meat, has become a consumptive and culinary practice that cuts across all […]
Finding Dioon and “ditmarsi”, the herpetology of botany, and the importance of biodiversity expeditions
Robert Villa, Tucson Herpetological Society I was six or seven years old when I entered my great-grandmother’s kitchen in South Tucson and noticed a yellow Tupperware box in the corner. Peering in, I was captivated by a desert tortoise. And when we offered it some lettuce my fate was sealed as a herpetologist. I became […]
