Affiliation: Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

City of residence: Hermosillo, Sonora

Research area: Ecología de Poblaciones, plantas invasoras, grupos indígenas

Disciplines: Anthropology, Biogeography, Biology, Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Ethnobiology, Geography, Natural History, Plant Ecology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Ofrecer todas las facilidades del laboratorio a mi cargo y todo mi empeño en mi trabajo como tutor (mentor) de estudiantes relacionados con la investigación de fenómenos ecológicos y de historia natural del Desierto Sonorense.

Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa

City of residence: Culiacán, Sinaloa

Research area: Landscape ecology, agroecosystems and biodiversity

Disciplines: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Mammalogy, Ornithology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: No están definidos en este momento, pero incluyen el sur de Sonora y el Norte de Sinaloa. Potencialmente podrían ser visitas a la Universidad (Culiacán, Sinaloa).

Affiliation: Instituto de Biología, UNAM

City of residence: Cd. Obregón, Sonora

Research area: Ecofisiología térmica e hídrica de anfibios y reptiles de desierto.

Disciplines: Biology, Ecology, Herpetology

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: La región en la que podría apoyar al mentorado es en el centro y sur de Sonora para realizar trabajo de campo, como buscar anfibios y reptiles, generar datos fisiológicos de los organismos, y colocación y extracción de registradores de datos ambientales.

Affiliation: Instituto de Biología

City of residence: Ciudad de México

Research area: Sistemática y diversidad de anfibios y reptiles

Disciplines: Biology, Herpetology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Specifics for place: Virtual

Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

City of residence: Santa Monica, Californa

Research area: Floristics, Plant Biology, Plant Ecology, Plant Evolution, Plant Geography, Field Botany, Herbarium Curation

Disciplines: Botany, Ecology, Natural History, Plant Ecology, Science Writing

Language: English, Spanish is ok and would like to improve.

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Los Angeles Area

Affiliation: N-Gen

City of residence: Tucson

Research area: Desert ecology, plant ecology, botany, islands, Gulf of California, global change biology, conservation, and transdisciplinary research.

Disciplines: Biogeography, Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Natural History, Plant Ecology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: I am happy to interact in person or virtual. I am based in Tucson, Arizona and could meet in person if convienent. I also undertake field work in Northwestern Mexico, and would hope some field research opportunties would be a possibility as part of this program.

Affiliation: UNAM Morelia.

City of residence: Morelia, Michoacán.

Research area: Mi área de interés son las respuestas funcionales de las plantas áridas a los cambios en el entorno. Estrés por sequía y salinidad. Otro de mis intereses es el modelado espacial en GIS y la fotogrametría con drones. El paisajismo, conservación, restauración ecológica y ecología funcional.

Disciplines: Agriculture, Anthropology, Biology, Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Education, Ethnobiology, Geography, Photography, Plant Ecology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Podrían ser seminarios de un par de días en sitios de interés para el desarrollo del tema, y a consenso de los mentorados participantes.

Affiliation: University of Arizona

City of residence: Santa Fe, NM

Research area: sociohydrology, disaster researcher

Disciplines: Communications, Conservation, Environmental Education, Environmental Policy, Public Policy, Science Writing, Social Science, Water Resources

Language: English

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Writer / The Border Chronicle

City of residence: Tucson

Research area: Environmental writing/journalism

Disciplines: Journalism

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Either in Tucson or virtually is fine with me.

Affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

City of residence: Mexico City / Ciudad de México

Research area: Linguistics, Anthropology, Seri language / Lingüística, Antropología, la lengua seri

Disciplines: Anthropology, Linguistics

Language: English, Spanish, German

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Field-based would be in Punta Chueca and El Desemboque, Sonora

Affiliation: Centro de Ciencias Genómicas

City of residence: Cuernavaca, Morelos. México

Research area: Transdisciplinary Biologist specializing in human-microbial interactions, integrating insights from microbiology, ecology, and the evolutionary dynamics of yeast communities. My research bridges natural and social sciences, proposing 'ethnomicrobiology' as a novel approach to understanding the cultural and ecological significance of microbial communities. I have a proven track record of interdisciplinary research that explores how microbial processes are embedded in cultural practices, with a particular focus on fermentation, biocultural heritage, and microbial biodiversity. My work seeks to highlight human microbial selection and domestications with different methodological approaches such as genomics and ethnographic studies

Disciplines: Biology, Ethnobiology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

City of residence: Chihuahua

Research area: Antropología sociocultural, Culturas costero-pesqueras

Disciplines: Anthropology, Natural Resource Management, Social Science, Tourism

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Comúnmente me encuentro haciendo trabajo de campo en los veranos (julio-agosto) en Baja California y este año estaré en Baja California Sur.

Affiliation: University of Arizona

City of residence: Tucson

Research area: Science Communications, Media Relations, Public Relations, Messaging

Disciplines: Communications, Journalism, Science Writing

Language: English

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Affiliation: Universidad de Sonora

City of residence: Hermosillo, Sonora

Research area: Ecofisiología vegetal

Disciplines: Biology, Botany, Ecology, Environmental Education, Plant Ecology

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Freelance

City of residence: Cd.Obregon

Research area: Tecnicas constructivas sustentables para habitar el Desierto

Disciplines: Botany, Fine Art, Science Illustration, Visual Arts

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Ciencia y Comunidad por la Conservación A.C.

City of residence: Hermosillo

Research area: Me interesa el estudio de los mecanismos moleculares involucrados en la respuesta fisiológica de un organismo ante un estrés ambiental (xenobiótico, patógenos o dieta). Mi objetivo es investigar los efectos de los contaminantes emergentes en la prevalencia de enfermedades zoonóticas y degenerativas en mamíferos, así como desarrollar estrategias interdisciplinarias que pudieran implementarse para mitigar situaciones de exposición o riesgo.

Disciplines: Biology, Ecology, Environmental Education, Genetics, Marine Ecology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Instituto de Ecología, UNAM-Hermosillo

City of residence: Hermosillo, Sonora

Research area: Mi trabajo se ha enfocado principalmente al estudio de los factores que en un contexto geográfico influyen en la evolución de historia de vida de las plantas, principalmente en cactáceas columnares. Para abordar este tema de estudio, estudio el efecto de la variación espacial y temporal de los recursos en la dinámica poblacional, el éxito reproductivo y la estructura genética de las poblaciones, así como, interacciones planta-animal y planta-planta.

Disciplines: Biogeography, Biology, Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Genetics, Natural History, Plant Ecology

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: En mi lugar de trabajo en la Estación Regional del Noroeste, UNAM, también en campo en Sonora, México.

Affiliation: Distinguished Professor of Ecology, University of California Riverside

City of residence: Riverside, California

Research area: Plant ecology

Disciplines: Biogeography, Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Ethnobiology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Centro de Estudios Culturales y Ecológicos Prescott College

City of residence: Bahía de Kino

Research area: Ecología de aves acuáticas, involucramiento comunitario en acciones de conservación

Disciplines: Biogeography, Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Education, Ethnobiology, Geography, Marine Ecology, Natural History, Natural Resource Management, Ornithology, Philosophy, Science Writing, Social Science, Tourism

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: El área donde trabajo y vivo es excepcional para la educación presencial, la región oriental de las grandes islas en el Golfo de California y la región costera central de Sonora. Basado en Bahía de Kino, tenemos de dos a tres salidas de campo en islas, esteros y el mar abierto con mucha frecuencia. Monitoreamos colonias de anidación de aves marinas y ecosistemas de humedales para aves migratiorias.

Affiliation: Universidad de la Sierra (UniSierra)

City of residence: Moctezuma, Sonora

Research area: Genómica ecológica de vertebrados y plantas / Plant and animal genomics

Disciplines: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Genetics, Mammalogy, Natural History, Science Writing

Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: On-campus

Affiliation: Retired; University of Californa at Irvine, University of Arizona

City of residence: Tucson

Research area: Water policy, environmental policy, public policy

Disciplines: Public Policy, Water Resources

Language: English, I know quite a bit of Spanish, but it is not good enough to evaluate papers in Spanish. I could help a spanish speaker write correct English.

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: I would be happy to meet anytime, anywhere in Tucson or Bisbee environs and also on Skype or Zoom

Affiliation: Tribu Comcaac

City of residence: Punta Chueca

Research area: ethnobotanico, conservacion, guia del campo, Botanico, medicina traditional

Disciplines: Anthropology, Archaeology, Biogeography, Biology, Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Entomology, Environmental Education, Environmental Policy, Ethnobiology, Geography, Geology, Herpetology, Linguistics, Malacology, Mammalogy, Marine Ecology, Natural History, Natural Resource Management, Ornithology, Plant Ecology, Public Policy, Tourism, Water Resources

Language: Spanish, cmiique iitom

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Hant Comcaac y las areas protegidas de las islas

City of residence: CdMx

Research area: cinematografía ficción y no ficción

Disciplines: Communications, Fine Art, Journalism

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Yo podría asistir a donde se desarrolle la actividad, también de forma virtual o invitar a mentee a colaborar en mis proyectos

Affiliation: ITE/Independiente

City of residence: Ensenada

Research area: Ecologist/mammalogist with broad-ranging research expertise in ecology, population ecology, natural resource management, community-based management and conservation biology. Extensive experience in GIS, remote sensing, field-based ecological monitoring and genetic/genomic analysis. Experience in personal management and leading student’s research stays in remote locations. Able to quickly assimilate information, analyze, summarize and draw conclusions. Skilled in presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences. Thrives on new intellectual and academic challenges. It’s my career goal to contributing to the understanding of autecology, landscape genomics, population ecology, and the evolution of mammals to aid the management and conservation of wildlife.

Disciplines: Conservation, Ecology, Genetics, Mammalogy

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: La región Colonet-El Rosario

Affiliation: University of California Santa Cruz/ University of Arizona

City of residence: Tucson

Research area: ecology of microbes in extreme ecosystems and in symbiosis

Disciplines: Biogeography, Biology, Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Plant Ecology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: I will be working in UA, and I can provide personal meetings at campus or if field work advise is needed, I can provide my physical presence as possible. In addition I can offer volunteer work, they can come and help out with my research in vernal pools or labwork, to provide with experience.

Affiliation: RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences program

City of residence: Shiki, Saitama, Japan

Research area: My research primarily aims to elucidate the genetic, geographic, and ecological processes involved in the origin of species and their diversification

Disciplines: Biogeography, Biology, Botany, Ecology, Genetics, Natural History, Plant Ecology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Harris Environmental Group

City of residence: Half Moon Bay, California

Research area: I conduct a variety of research on regional herpetofauna, with a particular specialties in urban evolutionary ecology, thermal ecology, conservation biology, and chemical ecology. I also have a background in ornithology and marine biology.

Disciplines: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Herpetology, Marine Ecology, Natural History, Ornithology, Photography

Language: English

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

City of residence: Ensenada, B.C.

Research area: Mi trabajo principal es enfocado en aves playeras, en la conservación de su hábitat y en entender cómo están siendo afectados actualmente tanto por acciones humanas, como por aumento en el nivel del mar. Trabajo con Sistemas de Información Geográfica, y también realizo trabajo de campo con comunidades y diferentes sectores. Mi área principal es la conservación, con un enfoque muy especial en las aves y sus hábitats.

Disciplines: Conservation, Environmental Education, Ornithology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: En la ciudad de Ensenada, o también podría tener alguna sesión en Guerrero Negro.

Affiliation: Northern Arizona University (Department of Anthropology & School of Earth Sciences and Sustainability)

City of residence: Flagstaff

Research area: I am an applied anthropologist and methodologist with expertise on water governance and climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Southwestern United States. My research examines the alignments and misalignments between environmental policies and practices as a way to help inform collaborative and, hopefully, more inclusive decision-making processes for environmental governance, with a strong focus on water. A lot of my work is done in interdisciplinary teams and in collaboration with partners in the public and private sectors. I incorporate qualitative and quantitative methods, and I am always excited to work in interdisciplinary teams to develop participatory and collaborative frameworks for environment-related research and programs.

Disciplines: Anthropology, Environmental Policy, Geography, Social Science, Water Resources

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM

City of residence: Ciudad de México

Research area: My research lines focus lies on Paleogenomics and evolutionary studies of the past in Mesoamerica. The research I develop and participate in, is highly interdisciplinary with a strong biological, historical, anthropological and archaeological component.

Disciplines: Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology, Genetics, Natural History, Science Writing

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: If the mentee is located in Mexico City or surrounding areas, a place mentorship could happen

Affiliation: INAH Sonora

City of residence: Bahia de Kino, Sonora

Research area: Arqueología y antropología de Sonora

Disciplines: Anthropology, Archaeology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: En Bahia Kino y areas vecinas, en el campo todo mayo 2025 en Fronteras, Sonora

Affiliation: Coordinadora Científica

City of residence: Ciudad de México

Research area: Bióloga con experiencia en proyectos de desarrollo sostenible y cambio climático; conocimiento de programas institucionales de CONANP, CONAFOR y SEMARNAT; trabajo con comunidades y equipos multidisciplinarios e interdisciplinarios.

Disciplines: Botany, Conservation, Environmental Policy

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Private entrepreneur

City of residence: Tucson, AZ

Research area: Breeding & propagation of cacti, bromeliads, adeniums

Disciplines: Botany

Language: English

Form of mentorship: Place or field-based

Specifics for place: My home is my worksite, with plants in greenhouses, shade houses, and ground beds

Affiliation: Coastal Solutions Program-Cornell Lab of Ornithology

City of residence: Mazatlán

Research area: Me interesa usar los datos generados a través de metodologías estandarizadas para proponer acciones de manejo, conservación y restauración. Durante mi formación, me he especializado en trabajar con las aves como modelo de estudio. Actualmente, trabajo en proponer acciones de conservación y restauración, basada en la toma de datos, en ecosistemas costeros.

Disciplines: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Ornithology

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Trabajo en algunos proyectos realizando trabajo de campo en algunos sitios en la zona costera de Sinaloa (pronto en Sonora). Particularmente, trabajo en el área de Estero de Urías (Mazatlán, Bahía de Ceuta (Elota), Ensenada Pabellones (Culiacán-Navolato) y Bahía de Santa María (Angostura). Realizamos un trabajo de monitoreo a largo plazo (desde 2006) con una población de aves playeras reproductoras en (Bahía de Ceuta) de abril a julio. En los otros sitios realizamos salidas mensuales o bien salidas programadas para capturar aves y realizar monitoreos (conteos, búsqueda de aves marcadas, etc.)

Affiliation: Stanford University

City of residence: Monterey, CA

Research area: Oceanología Social, Ecología marina, Etnobiología marina, Ecología Histórica

Disciplines: Anthropology, Ecology, Ethnobiology, Marine Ecology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: University of Arizona, retired

City of residence: Tucson, Arizona

Research area: Sonoran Desert Borderlands

Disciplines: Anthropology, Archaeology

Language: English

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Field locations in southern Arizona and occasional northern Sonora

Affiliation: Ciencia y Comunidad por la Conservación A.C.

City of residence: Hermosillo

Research area: Ecología, Especies exóticas invasoras, organizaciones no gubernamentales, medicina veterinaria y zootecnia

Disciplines: Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Education, Mammalogy, Natural Resource Management

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Independent

City of residence: Tucson AZ

Research area: Bio-cultural history, ethno-biology and -ecology with a focus on plants, and herpetofauna

Disciplines: Biogeography, Botany, Environmental Education, Ethnobiology, Herpetology, Natural History, Science Writing, Visual Arts

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Tucson AZ or possibly Sonora depending on circumstances

Affiliation: Geology Department, Portland State University

City of residence: Portland

Research area: I am a geologist that conducts field-based research to understand the geo-tectonic evolution of western North America and how these physical processes drive landscape change.

Disciplines: Geology

Email: scott.bennett@pdx.edu

Language: English,

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: The Mentorship will culminate with a multi-week, field-based geologic mapping excursion to the central Baja California peninsula, between Loreto and San Ignacio, possibly including islands such as Isla del Carmen.

Affiliation: University of Arizona, Professor Emerita, Anthropology; Curator Emerita, Arizona State Museum

City of residence: Tucson

Research area: Intersection of pre-contact agriculture and other subsistence strategies with social and civic organization over time and using comparative approaches. Pre-Hispanic cultivation of agave in arid lands, focusing on the Borderlands and more broadly in Mexico.

Disciplines: Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnobiology, Natural Resource Management, Water Resources

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Field locations in southern Arizona, possibly northern Sonora, and occasionally elsewhere in the binational Borderlands.

Affiliation: Saddling South / Bell Mare Productions

City of residence: Loreto, BCS

Research area: cultural anthropology

Disciplines: Anthropology, Botany, Entomology, Natural History, Performing Arts

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: I would like to present a course in tourism management for the Sierra de San Francisco related to cultural anthropology, history, and practical management (as one major offer)

Affiliation: Radio Wilderness

City of residence: San Diego

Research area: biology

Disciplines: Biogeography, Biology, Ecology, Entomology, Environmental Education, Mammalogy, Natural History, Ornithology, Photography, Science Illustration, Science Writing

Language: English

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Along the San Diego County border with occasional forays into Imperial County border land

Affiliation: Arcadia Red Ecosocial

City of residence: Ensenada, B.C.

Research area: Antropología ambiental, Gobernanza y gestión del medio ambiente y el desarrollo, Co-manejo de recursos naturales y servicios ecosistémicos y gestión de conflictos socioambientales

Disciplines: Anthropology, Conservation, Ecology, Economics, Environmental Policy, Natural Resource Management, Public Policy

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Ofreceré un curso especializado y asesorías virtuales con la posibilidad de tener algunas sesiones presenciales en las oficinas de Arcadia Red Ecosocial en la ciudad de Ensenada, B.C. Eventualmente podría ofrecer alguna pasantía en alguno de nuestros proyectos con la posibilidad de hacer trabajo de campo.

Affiliation: Desert Botanical Garden

City of residence: Phoenix

Research area: Flora of the Southwest and northwestern Mexico, Agavaceae systematics, rare species, species evolution, ethnobotany (food plants of SW, especially Mohave and Sonoran Deserts)

Disciplines: Botany, Conservation, Ethnobiology, Science Illustration

Language: English

Form of mentorship: Place or field-based

Specifics for place: DES Herbarium, field in Maricopa and northern Pinal County

Affiliation: Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora

City of residence: Cd Obregón

Research area: Landsurface-atmospheric interactions, ecohydrology , mangroves, desert

Disciplines: Ecology, Natural Resource Management, Water Resources

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual or Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Cd Obregón cercanías Álamos, Guaymas