Acceder a cualquier lugar para hacer estudios de campo, asociados a investigaciones científicas y/o sociales, requiere siempre de estrategias particulares y muy dependientes del lugar donde se realicen.
Seth and Ray Turner gave a general powerpoint presentation on long-term monitoring of vegetation in the Sonoran Desert, with emphasis on the Desert Laboratory. Examples of the advantages of using a cross-site approach to address research questions at broad spatial scales were also presented.
We organized a session on the relationship between the Colorado River and the health of the delta ecosystem and the Upper Gulf of California, with a diversity of perspectives: marine productivity and fisheries, wetland restoration, bird conservation, protection of native plants, the presence of contaminants, public health and the alternatives to improve the conditions of the area.
A partir de la coincidencia de algunos participantes sobre la temática de la relación entre comunidades indígenas, sus problemáticas históricas y su (cosmo)visión del medio ambiente y los recursos naturales fue como se preparó esta mesa. Se inició con dos casos específicos de grupos indígenas binacionales: los Tohono O’odham de Arizona y Sonora y los grupos yumanos en Baja California en México y los de California y Arizona en E.U.
In this session it was recognized the value of the Sonoran Desert’s archaeological heritage as the main evidence for the last millennia of coastal communities’ cultural continuity in the region. Shell-middens as archaeological sites are emphasized as areas where it is possible to study the ancient history of coastal environments.
Título: La Petrología en el Desierto de Sonora como apoyo a otras disciplinas Por: Alejandra Marisela Gómez Valencia Participantes: Emmanuel Mario Bernal Loaiza, Júpiter Martínez
This session aimed to continue the discussion initiated by Dr. Bowen on the inherent challenges to incorporate different scientific paradigms in our daily practices as scholars.
Undocumented migration and smuggling across the Mexico-U.S. border poses challenges and creates new opportunities for Sonoran Desert researchers. Human/drug smuggling organizations and law enforcement are locked into an arms race where each side tries to gain advantage over the other.
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.
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.
