2023
SWS BoD meeting
Society of Wetland Scientist Board of Directors meeting at the SWS annual meeting, Spokane, US
Book vernissage
Book Insights into Sustainable Management of Water and Wetlands in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México
New Book
I recently published my second book.
2022
Launched the certificate course in Scientific Publication
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México, August, 2022
Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting
Ian Bredin, Tatiana Lobato de Magalhães, and Derek Faust in the SWS International Chapter meeting, JASM, Grand Rapids, EE.UU., June 2022
Talk for faculty members
Environmental Sciences, North Dakota State University, USA, April, 2022
Documentary on Water and Wetlands, Premiere 2022
We launched a documentary at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico, February, 2022
MoU: North Dakota State University and the Autonomous University of Querétaro
We signed an agreement on wetland research and educational projects, Mexico, February 2022
2021
Fulbright Specialist Program
Approved the project "Water management in a karstic rural impoverished environment" with Dr. Marinus Otte (invited wetland scientist) and the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (host institution), Sierra Gorda, Mexico, 2021
SWS Student Research Grant
My undergrad student Luis Enrique Olguín Chavéz won the SWS grant to develop his thesis titled "Understanding reproductive aspects of the distylous aquatic plant Nymphoides fallax Ornduff (Menyanthaceae)", UAQ, Mexico, 2021
Cátedra de Las Américas, Uninorte, Colombia
I am glad to be part of this event and talk about aquatic plants, phytoremediation, and mining, Colombia, 2021
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers), 2021-24
I am honored to be accepted as a new member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico, 2021
2020
Youth Engaged in Wetlands meeting, core-team member
YEW meeting hosted by Youth Ramsar Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 2020
SWS Student Section Virtual Conference, panelist
Wetland Ambassadors Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Society of Wetland Scientists, 2020
2019
Gene flow in Tropical Landscapes Symposium, presenter
International Association for Landscape Ecology annual meeting, Fort Collins, USA, 2019
2019 SWS International Chapter meeting, organizer
Society of Wetland Scientists annual meeting, Baltimore, USA, 2019
Aquatic plants Symposium presenters contest, presenter and organizer
XXI Mexican Society of Botany meeting, Aguascalientes, Mexico, 2019
Distinguished Foreign Scholar Travel Award, recipient
2019 Recipients with IALE-North America president Janet Silbernagel and Foreign Scholar Travel Award Committee chair Anne Kuhn-Hines, USA, 2019
SWS Wetland Ambassadors Fellowship, recipient
2018-19 Recipients with Wetland Ambassadors program chair Bianca Wentzell and SWS 2015-16 President Kimberli Ponzio, USA, 2019
Doctoral defense, Autonomous University of Queretaro, presenter
Mexican Society of Botany 2017-19 President Luis Hernandéz-Sandoval, researchers from UAQ, UDG, and INECOL, and I, Mexico, 2019
2018
Water & life photo contest, honorable mention
I fancy myself an amateur photographer, and recently won a photo contest, Mexico, 2018
Photo: Great Salt Lake wetlands
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