Dr. Carmen Isela Ortega-Rosas is a Research Professor with the State University of Sonora, Mexico. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Ecology, completed her PhD studies in Environmental Geosciences at the University Paul Cezanne, France, and has been awarded a “very honorable mention” for her dissertation in France. She has two years of postdoctoral research at the UNAM Institute of Ecology (2008-2010). Since May 2010, she has worked as a Research Professor at the State University of Sonora. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII Level 1) and Leader of the Academic Group in Natural Resources, consolidated by PRODEP (Program for Teacher Professional Development of the Secretary of Public Education in Mexico). She recently led a project, number: SEMARNAT-2015-1-263413, related to aerobiology and climate change. She has published twenty-two papers in various journals, seven books chapters, and several technical reports. She serves as an advisor for several municipal and state advisory governmental councils related to the environment and climate change, as well as a collaborator for research projects supported by CONAHCYT (actual SECIHTI). Her teaching disciplines include climate change, scientific methodology, ecophysiology, urban ecosystems, and her interests include aerobiology, climate change, urban vegetation, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology.