Born in Sonora, Mexico, Jesus Roberto VIDAL SOLANO earned his PhD in Environmental Geosciences at the Laboratoire de Pétrologie Magmatique, Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III, France. He earned a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech and specialized in Volcanology and Volcanic Geophysics in the Canary Islands. He earned both his BSc and MSc in Geological Sciences at Universidad de Sonora. Vidal’s holistic research focuses on geodiversity and its interactions with life, water, climate, and human culture. Publications encompass environmental geology, climate change, geoarchaeology, geochemistry, volcanology, paleomagnetism, magmatic petrology, non-metallic deposits, and structural geology. He founded the scientific outreach project www.rocateca.unison.mx Currently, he serves as President of the Instituto Nacional de Geoquímica, mentors students in the Earth Sciences graduate programs at UNAM and UNISON, and is a guest professor at the Escuela de Antropología e Historia del Norte de México INAH. Vidal’s applied research addresses environmental challenges through geogenic characterization and baseline geochemistry, geoarchaeological provenance studies of lithic artifacts, quaternary paleoclimate reconstructions, and the exploration and evaluation of non-metallic mineral deposits associated with volcanic settings. Working collaboratively across disciplines and institutions, he has trained numerous students and built a multidisciplinary research team