Affiliation: Instituto de Biología, UNAM

City of residence: Cd. Obregón, Sonora

Research area: Thermal and hydric ecophysiology of desert amphibians and reptiles

Disciplines: Biology, Ecology, Herpetology

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Affiliation: N-Gen

City of residence: Tucson, Arizona

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, Place or field-based

Affiliation: University of Arizona

City of residence: Santa Fe, Nuevo Mexico

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: CIBNOR

City of residence: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Research area: Food sovereignty; agroaquaculture systems; educational gardens; aquaponics; fish

Disciplines: Agriculture, Biology, Environmental Education, Natural Resource Management, Sustainability and Sostenibility

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: UNAM-Instituto de Ecología

City of residence: Mexico city

Research area: Ethnomicrobiology

Disciplines: Biology, Ethnobiology, Science Writing

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Ciencia y Comunidad por la Conservación AC

City of residence: Hermosillo, Sonora

Research area: Next-generation ecotoxicology in marine and coastal ecosystems

Disciplines: Biology, Communications, Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Education, Fine arts, Genetics, Mammalogy, Marine Ecology, Science Illustration, Science Writing, Visual Arts

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: UNAM-Instituto de Ecología

City of residence: Hermosillo, Sonora

Research area: My work has primarily focused on studying the factors that, within a geographic context, influence the evolution of plant life-history traits, particularly in columnar cacti. To address this topic, I examine the effects of spatial and temporal variation in resource availability on population dynamics, reproductive success, and the genetic structure of populations, as well as plant–animal and plant–plant interactions.

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

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Affiliation: Conservación de Ecosistemas y Resiliencia MX

City of residence: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Research area: Community development, contemplative tourism and development of participatory governance models in coastal communities

Disciplines: Conservation, Ecology, Natural History, Natural Resource Management, Tourism

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: La Paz, Loreto, Mulegé, Laguna de San Ignacio

Affiliation: Ilustrador naturalista

City of residence: Hermosillo, Sonora

Research area: Flora and fauna of the Sonoran Desert

Disciplines: Anthropology, Archaeology, Fine arts, Geography, Performing Arts, Photography, Science Illustration, Visual Arts

Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Form of mentorship: Place or field-based

Specifics for place: -Biosfera del pinacate y la reserva del gran desierto de altar . - Posodoma , San Carlos nuevo Guaymas ,Sonora. -Zona arqueolgica ¨la colorada¨ -Petrograbados Santa Ana Sonora -Etnografia de Sonora.

Affiliation: El Colegio de Sonora

City of residence: Hermosillo, Sonora

Research area: My professional trajectory focuses on analyzing and promoting sustainable tourism models that foster local development in and around Protected Natural Areas (PNAs), integrating a critical analysis of gender relations. Through applied research and consulting, I have worked on tourism planning and management in various PNAs across Mexico, developing key instruments such as Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) studies and Public Use Programs.

Disciplines: Conservation, Environmental Education, Tourism

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Hermosillo (Sonora) and surroundings

Affiliation: Independiente

City of residence: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Research area: Geographis Information Systems, Natural Protected Areas and Communities

Disciplines: Conservation, Environmental Education, Geography, Natural Resource Management, Public Policy, Water Resources

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Universidad de la Sierra

City of residence: Moctezuma, Sonora

Research area: Plant and animal genomics

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

Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Southwestern College

City of residence: San Diego, California

Research area: Birds, butterflies, moths

Disciplines: Biology, Communications, Entomology, Environmental Education, Geography, Natural Resource Management, Ornithology, Photography

Language: English

Form of mentorship: Place or field-based

Specifics for place: San Diego County/Imperial County

Affiliation: CICESE

City of residence: Ensenada, Baja California

Research area: Conservation, ecology and evolution

Disciplines: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Natural Resource Management, Ornithology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Estero de Punta Banda, Bahía de San Quintín, Sierra de San Pedro Mártir.

Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur

City of residence: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Research area: Bioculturality

Disciplines: Natural History, Agroecology, sustainable food system

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Affiliation: Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas - IPN

City of residence: Mexico city

Research area: I work on various aspects of the biology of gelatinous zooplankton, including ctenophores, jellyfish, salps, chaetognaths, among others. These organisms are distributed along the coasts of the Gulf of California, the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to taxonomic studies of these organisms, my research also encompasses molecular biology, interaction ecology, and trophic network dynamics.

Disciplines: Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Marine 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: Artista independiente

City of residence: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Research area: Art and conservation

Disciplines: Biology, Communications, Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Education, Fine arts, Journalism, Natural History, Natural Resource Management, Ornithology, Science Illustration, Tourism, Visual Arts

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Affiliation: Coastal Solutions Program-Cornell Lab of Ornithology

City of residence: Mazatlan, Sinaloa

Research area: I am interested in using data generated through standardized methodologies to propose management, conservation, and restoration actions. Throughout my training, I have specialized in working with birds as a study model. Currently, I focus on proposing data-driven conservation and restoration actions in coastal ecosystems.

Disciplines: Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Ornithology

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Pequeño humedal en Mazatlán

Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur

City of residence: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Research area: My research focuses on fisheries, particularly small-scale fisheries

Disciplines: Low scale fisheries, communitary development, entrepeneurship

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Place based only in La Paz, BCS

Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

City of residence: Ensenada, Baja California

Research area: Environmental impacts on wildlife, with a particular focus on renewable energy projects and their associated effects

Disciplines: Conservation, Environmental Policy, Natural Resource Management

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: UABC, Ensenada

Affiliation: El Colegio de Michoacán

City of residence: La Piedad, Michoacan

Research area: Sonoran Desert, Baja California, Gulf of California, Seri Culture and Territory

Disciplines: Anthropology, Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Ethnobiology

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: Baja or Seri territory, it would be a matter of matching field seasons.

Affiliation: Intituto Tecnológico de Sonora

City of residence: Cd. Obregón, Sonora

Research area: Conservation ecophysiology; herpetology; climate change biology

Disciplines: Biology, Ecology, Herpetology

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Affiliation: Ciencia y Comunidad por la Conservación AC

City of residence: Hermosillo,Sonora

Research area: Ecology; invasive alien species; non-governmental organizations; veterinary medicine and animal science (zootechnics)

Disciplines: Conservation, Natural Resource Management, Herpetology, Environmental education, Mammalogy

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Independiente

City of residence: La Paz, Baja California Sur

Research area: Triple-impact or social-impact entrepreneurship; sustainable and community-based tourism; conservation and Protected Natural Areas; youth and Indigenous Peoples; comprehensive, multi-actor, cross-sector collaborations.

Disciplines: Conservation, Environmental Education, Environmental Policy, Public Policy, Social Science, Tourism, Community-based tourism, triple-impact or social-impact entrepreneurship, youth engagement

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Independiente

City of residence: Xalapa, Veracruz

Research area: Participatory arts; ecosophy; care as a political act and life-sustaining practice / becoming sand, rock, cactus / How do we make the hostile habitable? How do we live in the desert? How do we survive violence?

Disciplines: Communications, Fine arts, Performing Arts, Expanded writing

Language: Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual

Affiliation: Saddling South

City of residence: Loreto, Baja California Sur

Research area: Alternative tourism and film production, ethnobotany

Disciplines: Anthropology, Botany, Geography, Natural History, Tourism, Visual Arts

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, Place or field-based

Specifics for place: BCS / California / possible other Sonoran Desert location

Affiliation: Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas - IPN

City of residence: Mexico city

Research area: Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, genomics, and metagenomics

Disciplines: Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Science Writing

Language: English, Spanish

Form of mentorship: Virtual, lab work (optional)

Specifics for place: Laboratorio de Microbiología General, Departamento de Microbiología, ENCB, IPN. Alcaldía Miguel Hidalgo , CDMX.