We are honored to have Dr. José Sarukhán, director of CONABIO and instrumental figure in the science and conservation of Mexico’s natural heritage, speak at the opening of the 2015 Summit.
Summit Schedule / Programa de la Cumbre (pdf)
[title size=”2″]Established Sessions[/title]
The core of the Summit is based around hour and a half sessions that are proposed by participants. To maximize our time and realize tangible results, the following proposed sessions will be convened at the Summit on the following topics. Click on the title of the session for more information!
Information for session convenors: Please download the instruction document for suggestions on how to run an unconference session and a guide on how to fill in the report.
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Opportunities for Transborder Indigenous Research in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Adrian Quijada & Philip Miguel
Role of a boundary organization for the Sonoran Desert region
Adrian Munguia-Vega
La Geografía Humana y el estudio del espacio en el desierto sonorense
Cinthia Tatiana Cornejo González y José de Jesús Flores Durán
Human disturbance and importance of long-time data series in conservation and management of natural resources
Enriqueta Velarde
¿Qué es un N-Gen?
Jorge Torre y Nemer E. Narchi
Buffelgrass in the desert: Where do we go from here?
Kim Franklin
Freshwater oases: aquatic biodiversity, hydrology, and knowledge gaps
Michael Bogan
Cuevas: Nuevos Retos de Investigación en un Ambiente Poco Conocido en el Desierto Sonorense
Luis Omar Calva Pérez, Reyna A. Castillo Gámez
Interplay Between Sonoran Desert Geology and Non-Geologic Processes
Scott Bennett, Michael Darin
