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Gina's Legacy: Protecting Baja's Mangroves

Explore Gina's pioneering work in biological research & conservation efforts to protect Baja's unique mangrove ecosystems. Tribute to a dedicated researcher and educator.

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Gina's Legacy: Protecting Baja's Mangroves

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  1. Gina at workas a researcher at The Northwestern Center for Biological Research (CIBNOR) and professor at the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur in La Paz, Mexico Photos courtesy of Taylor Morey and friends of Gina Presentation by Juan-Pablo Hernandez

  2. Initial steps: studies of decay of cardon cactus in 1991-1994 With Gerardo Toledo, a M.Sc. student

  3. Initial steps: studies of decay of cardon cactus in 1991-1994 On the island of Espiritu Santo with Gerardo Toledo (R) and Yoav Bashan (L)

  4. Initial steps: studies of decay of cardon cactus in 1991-1994 On the island of Espiritu Santo

  5. Initial steps: studies of decay of cardon cactus in 1991-1994 On the island of Espiritu Santo

  6. Initial steps: studies of decay of cardon cactus in 1991-1994 On the island of Espiritu Santo

  7. Initial steps: helping farmers in Valle de Santo Domingo to improve their crops (1992-1994)

  8. Initial steps: Study of microbiology of a saltern in 1991-1992

  9. Initial steps: Study of microbiology of a saltern in 1991-1992

  10. In the laboratories of CIBNOR in 1992 With Norma Hernandez

  11. Initial steps: mangrove research, the great love of her life in 1992-1993 Collecting propagules of black mangroves for experiments in Balandra Lagoon

  12. Initial steps: mangrove research, the great love of her life in 1992-1993 Collecting seedlings of black mangroves at local beach with Joseph Dobruvsky

  13. Surveying cacti and desert plants in 1996 With Luz Gonzalez visiting from Colombia

  14. Surveying a desert in Baja California Sur in 1996 The oasis of San Ignacio South of Loreto With Luz Gonzalez visiting from Colombia

  15. Surveying cacti and desert plants in 2002 Probably in San Juan de los Planes, a heavy deforested area

  16. Surveying desert plants in 2004 Probably near La Paz at an area to be converted to a golf-course community

  17. With the major love of her professional life; arid-region mangroves

  18. With the major love of her professional life; arid-region mangroves Taking samples from mangroves seedlings with her student Patricia Vazquez in 1998 Proud of the first reforestation of arid- region mangroves in Mexico in 1996 Giving a tour of mangroves to visitors

  19. Getting a Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo, Canada (1996-2000) A long and life-changing break in her desert studies

  20. Teaching basic microbiology at the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur in La Paz (2002-2006) With her student Ani Flores

  21. A field trip with her students to the damaged mangroves on El Mogote

  22. In the mangrove at Balandra that were planned to be converted to a golf course. Gina fought endlessly to conserve this outstanding natural area With Ani Flores (L) Luis Leyva (M), and Lior Bashan (R) Balandra mangroves were declared a municipal park and a RAMSAR priority conservation site in 2008. Gina did not live to see her greatest success.

  23. Gina left all of us much to do May the mangroves of the Baja California Peninsula be protected, as she intended them to be.

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