New Explorations on the Río Mayo
Fall 2019 Lecture Series, in collaboration with the Southwest Center
Did you know that the Sonoran Desert originated in part from the tropics? The Río Mayo drainage of the Sierra Madre mountains near Álamos, Sonora, Mexico, is a convergence zone of astonishing biological and cultural diversity. Research into this unique and imperiled ecosystem at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill extends back to the 1940s. Please join the Desert Laboratory and The Southwest Center for this series as we venture back to the Río Mayo and hear from a diversity of researchers and community members who will highlight new explorations, biocultural understandings, and efforts to preserve the tropics next door.
Conserving the Dry Forest and Its Biocultural Diversity
September 11, 2019 | Lydia Lozano, Program Director, Nature and Culture International
Life of the Secret Forest
October 9, 2019 | Angelina Martínez Yrizar, PhD, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
The Social Fabric of the Sierra
November 13, 2019 | Jeff Banister, PhD, Director, Southwest Center & David Yetman, PhD, Research Social Scientist, Southwest Center
Multiple Ways of Knowing
December 11, 2019 | Teresa Valdivia, PhD, Instituto de Estudios Antropológicos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México