Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
He is originally from Mexico City. He studied a degree in Biology at the UNAM Faculty of Sciences. He has Postgraduate studies in Environmental Geography, at the Institute of Geography of the UNAM. He is a full-time Academic Technician since 1991, in the Department of Environmental Sciences of the Environmental Pollution Section, of the Center for Atmospheric Science.
He has participated in approximately 15 research projects in the field of atmospheric monitoring and in the development of a line of research focused primarily on the study of the origin, occurrence and development of control strategies for environmental pollution. He is technically responsible for the monitoring of criteria pollutants of the CCA.
He is a host and advisor to students of the two subsystems of the university baccalaureate and the system incorporated into the "Youth in Research" program of the Coordination of Scientific Research of the UNAM in the Center for Atmospheric Sciences.
He is a Certified Instructor of the First GLOBE Course developed in Mexico in November 1997, coordinator of the meteorological station of CCH Sur, UNAM and director of the International Program of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE Program) of CCH Sur, UNAM.
In 2000 he was awarded a scholarship with an academic stay at the University of California, Riverside Campus in the United States, to implement monitoring and analysis techniques for Nitrates in ambient air in the atmosphere of Mexico City. He has participated in four oceanographic campaigns in the Gulf of Mexico aboard the Justo Sierra Oceanographic Vessel of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology of the UNAM.
Recently, he obtained the Master Trainer of the GLOBE Program, in Buenos Aires Argentina, together with instructors from 12 nations that make up the Latin American consortium, of the GLOBE Program, Mexico.
The Importance and First Results of Assessing Mercury in Ambient Air in Mexico City
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
8:00am – 8:20am ET
