Sustainable Soils Group
Coordinator: Mayra Elena Gavito Pardo
B Sc in Biology and M Sc in Soil Science at the Faculty of Sciences of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ph D in Soil Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Postdoctoral fellowships at Risø National Laboratory in Denmark, Lund University in Sweeden and Estación Experimental de Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, in Granada, Spain. Researcher at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México since 2004.
Technical assistant: Eloy Rubicel Pat López
B Sc in Natural Resource Management, Universidad de Quintana Roo, Mexico. Field and lab technician with project appointment
Contact: rpat@iies.unam.mx
Postdoctoral fellow
D Sc María Ángeles Gallegos Tavera
Engineer in Computing Systems. M Sc and D Sc in Geography.
Projects:
1) Improved version of the cell-phone application AppGuacateN for visual estimation of nitrogen levels in Hass avocado leaves through automated color analysis.
2) Development and use of a web system to model soil functionality in agricultural areas of Michoacán.
STUDENTS
Josselyn López Valencia. Elaboración de una propuesta narrativa ilustrada para comunicar información ambiental acerca de la degradación del bosque tropical seco. Licenciatura en Ciencias Ambientales, ENES-Morelia, UNAM.
María Semiramis Gutiérrez Nuñez. “El manejo del suelo para conservar las redes de micelio de los hongos micorrízicos arbusculares y su relación con el desarrollo del maíz” Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas, UNAM
Martha América Baleón Sepúlveda. “Mantenimiento de la multifuncionalidad del suelo y su relación con las prácticas agronómicas” Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas, UNAM Fotografía
STUDENTS FINISHING RECENTLY
Rocío Aguilar Fernández. “Characterizing land use management and promoting recovery of ecosystem services in agro-forested landscapes” (University of Wageningen) Ph D Co-advisors: Thom Kuyper, Marielos Peña-Claros, Mirjam Pulleman. February 2023
Daniela Flores Méndez. Maintenance of soil capacity to promote plant growth in land covers with different agronomic managemnt of the Purépecha plateau Michoacán. Co-advisors: Martha América Baleón Sepúlveda. B Sc in Environmental Sciences, ENES-Morelia, UNAM. October 2023.
Mariana Lagunas Pérez. Forage productivity in a successional gradient of tropical dry forest in the Coast of Jalisco, Mexico. M Sc in Biological Sciences, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Co-advisor in UMSNH: Dr. Arnulfo Blanco. February 2022.