Seri Session

This group of 11, with varied lengths of experience of working with the Seri community from their whole lives (Cathy Moser Marlett) to a few years (several of us) met to begin to discuss our shared experiences of working in the Seri community. We would like to stress the unfortunate fact that no Seris were able to participate in 2012 NextGen Summit due to the logistical difficulties of visas and passports.

Seeing the Sonoran Desert through the Eyes of Colleagues

The original title of the session was “Seeing the Gulf of California through the Eyes of Colleagues” and one of the suggested topics of discussion was to resurrect the multidisciplinary scientific shipboard voyages of the early twentieth century.

Desemboque, Sonora – Fall 2013

Desemboque, Sonora, Fall 2013 Carolyn O’Meara (UNAM, IIFL) and Isabel Martínez (UNAM, IIE) On the 21st of November, after the long drive from Mexico City (with a stopover in Mazatlan, Hermosillo and Kino Bay), we finally arrived to Desemboque, Sonora, one of two Seri villages located about 3 hours away from Hermosillo and about an hour south […]

Plant collecting on mule-back in Baja California

Sula Vanderplank, Biodiversity Explorer, Botanical Research Institute of Texas; Board Member, Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers. With Trudi Angell, Leslie Pringle, Nacho Chiapa, Tomás Murillo, Matilde Murillo, Andrea Flores and others. We rode in the truck with bales of hay on the roof, down a long, straight and dusty road, that took us to Rancho […]

Fall 2013 Webinar Series

The first N-Gen webinar series was held in the Fall of 2013 on the theme, “Human-Environmental Relations in the Sonoran Desert.” Here are abstracts of the presentation presented. “Urban Waterways: Comparative Cases from the U.S. and Mexico,” Urban and Rural Connectivity for Watershed Management By Joaquin Murrieta-Saldivar, Watershed Management Group – Tucson, Arizona This presentation will […]