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A Brief History of CINVESTAV, Merida Unit, in Yucatan, Mexico Ernesto A Gulf of Mexico Science Volume 28 Article 3 Number 1 Number 1/2 (Combined Issue) 2010 A Brief History of CINVESTAV, Merida Unit, in Yucatan, Mexico Ernesto A. Chávez Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Mexico DOI: 10.18785/goms.2801.03 Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/goms Recommended Citation Chávez, E. A. 2010. A Brief History of CINVESTAV, Merida Unit, in Yucatan, Mexico. Gulf of Mexico Science 28 (1). Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/goms/vol28/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gulf of Mexico Science by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Chávez: A Brief History of CINVESTAV, Merida Unit, in Yucatan, Mexico Gulf of Mexico Science, 2010(1–2), pp. 13–16 A Brief History of CINVESTAV, Merida Unit, in Yucatan, Mexico ERNESTO A. CHA´ VEZ his article contains the early history of the fisheries studies. In those days, the British T Merida Unit of the Centro de Investigacio´n Council played a significant role supporting y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV) research our development, sponsoring some of our young center in Yucatan. The relative isolation of the collaborators to obtain their M.S. and Ph.D. Yucatan and southern Baja California peninsulas degrees in the topics of aquaculture and marine in the early 1970s imposed the need to carry on biology, primarily at the Institute of Aquaculture scientific research activities on the coastline of the University of Sterling, Scotland. With this devoted to the study of marine environment. group, a long-lasting relationship was estab- With a high strategic purpose of dealing with the lished, with the some of the University’s profes- many problems caused by a growing human sors conducting joint projects at Merida Unit population, and the requirement of helping to focused on developing the aquaculture technol- cope with the conflicts of multiple users of the ogy of native species. Albert Tacon, Lindsay Ross, coastal environment in that part of the country, and Malcolm Beveridge were the most frequent the Mexican government decided to establish a visiting professors. research center in Merida, on the Yucatan Within the field of marine biology, the Peninsula, Mexico, in 1981. As a result of the Institute of Marine Biology at Port Erin, Isle of same initiative, an earlier center of this type was Man, and the University of North Wales played a created in 1976 in La Paz, Mexico. In both cases significant role helping us in capacity building. the goal was performing scientific research and Ernest Naylor, a visitor on several occasions, capacity building, oriented to the study of the provided advice on how to develop a new marine environment. A few years before, the research group in this area. Universidad Nacional de Me´xico (UNAM, Na- The infrastructure of the Merida Unit was set tional University of Mexico) established a marine up in a few months, and in September 1981, Jose´ station in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, on the Lo´pez Portillo, President of Mexico, inaugurated Caribbean coast, as part of the Instituto de this facility (Figs. 1–4). The climate of Yucatan Ciencias del Mar y Limnologı´a (Institute of provided a good example of how fast the tropical Marine Sciences and Limnology). environment becomes productive. During the last few days before the inaugural ceremony of this facility, the soil for the gardens was set up, the RESEARCH IN EARLY YEARS seeds for the grass were planted, and the grass began to grow in spectacular bloom to the point The Merida Unit is a branch of the largest that Professor Naylor made the comment ‘‘it’s research center sponsored by the Mexican like the creation, because this last week I have government, the Centro de Investigacio´n y de seen so much of this infrastructure being finished Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Polite´cnico to the point of seeing the grass growing in a few Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN). With most of its days where there was nothing but a bare ground.’’ departments in Mexico City, the Merida Unit was In the area of fisheries, we organized several the first one established in another part of the short courses with a national scope on selected country and its first director was Alonso Ferna´n- topics in modern fisheries science. John Gul- dez, a distinguished physicist with experience in land, recently retired from his position in Rome leading several academic groups in Mexico City. working for the Food and Agriculture Organiza- At its origin, the unit had two departments, one tion, was hired by Imperial College in London, in physics and a second, the Departmento de and assisted us with these classes. Other visiting Recursos del Mar (Department of Sea Resourc- professors were David Cushing and John Pope es). The latter was composed of a small group of from the United Kingdom, Keith Sainsbury from six young scientists full of enthusiasm rather Australia, and Gilbert Walter from the United than experience. I was recruited as Head of the States. We were able to offer this course on two Department, and I held the position for 7 years. occasions. Some of these distinguished visiting From the beginning, we had in mind three professors assisted us in advising graduate main goals for our research lines: 1) developing students, first in the marine science M.S. aquaculture technologies of tropical species; 2) program started in 1982, and later in the Ph.D. the study of applied aquatic ecology; and 3) program, started in 1987. E 2010 by the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium of Alabama Published by The Aquila Digital Community, 2010 1 Gulf of Mexico Science, Vol. 28 [2010], No. 1, Art. 3 14 GULF OF MEXICO SCIENCE, 2010, VOL. 28(1–2) Fig. 1. The main gate. Fig. 3. Buildings of the workshop and the admin- istration. With the intention of diversifying the academ- ic links with other scientific groups and with the sula, taking advantage of the boats and ships of support of Bruce Phillips, from the Common- the Mexican Navy, which regularly supply water wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Orga- and food to the lighthouse keepers on the nization (Australia), a workshop with the Austra- remote reef islands. Among our distinguished lian Institute of Marine Sciences was organized visitors, Vassil Zlatarski, a specialist in the in Yucatan in 1987. The general topic was the systematics of corals, spent nearly 1 year there coral reef ecosystem, which was a common as a visiting professor and made an impressive interest of both groups. Among the attendants collection of stony corals, a part of which was at this meeting were Joe Baker, Director of the donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Australian Institute of Marine Sciences, and Washington, DC. Another distinguished visitor Chris Crossland and Graeme Kelleher from the with whom I have had a long-term professional Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. A relationship as a colleague and friend was John book was produced as a result of the workshop ‘‘Wes’’ Tunnell from Texas A&M University- (Cha´vez, 1989). Corpus Christi. He didn’t take too long to think In the early 1980s, UNAM launched one of its about coming to the Yucatan with his family and two oceanographic vessels, the B. O. Justo Sierra, spending an 11-month term under a Fulbright and gave us the opportunity to use this ship for Fellowship. Assisted by some of our graduate nearly 2 years, performing oceanographic sur- students, he took advantage of the naval vessels veys around the Yucatan Peninsula with the of opportunity and made many surveys of the students of the young M.S. program, who Campeche Bank reefs and islands. These expe- acquired a magnificent opportunity of training riences provided a huge amount of data, and a in the use of current methods of chemical, lifetime of memories. Many data and observa- physical, and biological oceanography. tions made on those reefs provided a significant The location of the Merida Unit provided a unique opportunity to start a long-term project studying coral reefs around the Yucatan Penin- Fig. 4. Building lodging the Department of Sea Resources on the right side. In the lower floor there were four laboratories and on the upper floor there Fig. 2. Main entrance to the administrative building. were cubicles for the academic personnel. https://aquila.usm.edu/goms/vol28/iss1/3 2 DOI: 10.18785/goms.2801.03 Chávez: A Brief History of CINVESTAV, Merida Unit, in Yucatan, Mexico CHA´ VEZ—HISTORY OF CINVESTAV–MERIDA, MEXICO 15 Fig. 5. View of the facilities of the Marine Station Fig. 6. The aquaculture laboratory in the Telchac in Telchac, Yucatan, inaugurated in July, 2007. Marine Station. background for the book on the coral reefs of The Unit has had a very strong impact in the the southern Gulf of Mexico (Tunnell et al., production of graduate students in these areas. 2007) whose two main coeditors were distin- In the summer of 1997, the Unit inaugurated the guished with the Gulf Guardian Award by the Telchac Marine Station, located about 1 hour NE Environmental Protection Agency one year later. from Merida, from which some pictures illustrat- Some data and samples of mollusks collected by ing its aspect (Figs. 5–7) are included. Tunnell helped to increase a fine collection of A significant role in the activities and contin- mollusks organized by the late Esperanza Hidal- ued development of the Department of Sea go, a founding member of the Merida Unit.
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