Current projects
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May 2025,
Invited speaker, Workshop poko kwayask ka-manācihāyahk kahkiyaw kā-isi wāhkōtamahk - We Must Protect our Relatives: Reflections about Mother Earth and the State of all her Relations
For more information consult here: https://agbio.usask.ca/events/2025/05/askiy-workshop.php
March 2025,
Participation at the Indigenous Kinship Gathering
February 2025,
Coauthored Book Chapter at the Biotic Resources of Sierra de Astillero: Hydrography: Watersheds, Water Bodies, and Aquifers (Publication in Spanish)
November 2024,
Keynote speaker, XX International Conference in Arid Lands Biological Resources: " Ancestral Crops and Plants of Cultural Interests In Northern Mexico Arid Lands"
September 2024,
Invited speaker, Botanical Garden Conservation International (BGCI), "Collaborating to Conserve North America’s Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Utilized Plants", presentation: A Window Between Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) and Botanical Garden Perspectives on Partnership.
For more information consult here: https://www.bgci.org/news-events/experts-convene-about-conservation-of-north-americas-crop-wild-relatives-and-wild-utilized-plants/
June 2024,
New paper published, Maxent Predictive Species Distribution Models and Model Accuracy Assessment for Two Species of Psilochalcis Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) Occurring in the Eastern Great Basin of Utah, USA, https://doi.org/10.3390/d16060348
August 2023,
Moving Ortiz Lab to the Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation and Action at the Chicago Botanic Garden
August 2023,
Conference session to be presented at the Ecological Society of America Conference, Portland Oregon: ¿Cómo haces ecología? Como você faz ecologia? How do you do ecology? Latine voices in our community of ecologists
June 2023,
New paper published, Lessons from the history of Agave: ecological and cultural context for valuation of CAM, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad072
June 2023,
Public talk at Holden Arboretum Scientist Lecture Series: Ecology, history and cultural knowledge working together to better understand the future of forests in the face of climate change
April 2023,
Participating in the Agave Heritage Festival (joining the conversation about conservation and the future of Agave in the US-MEX borderlands)
January 2023,
New paper published, Ecological-niche modeling reveals current opportunities for Agave dryland farming in Sonora, Mexico and Arizona, USA 10.1371/journal.pone.0279877
December 2022,
International Project Award, UNESCO Chair on Sustainability, International Conference Ancestral Hydrotecnologies
November 2022,
Invited speaker at the International Colloquium about Natural Resources, Autonomous University Antonio Narro, Saltillo Coahuila Mexico
March 2022,
Invited speaker UNESCO Sustainability Chapter, International Conference Ancestral Hydrotechnologies as a Response to Climate, Health, and Food Emergencies
January 2022,
Semifinalist Conservation Biology Smith Fellowship
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