1. Gina at work as 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 ( )
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 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.