Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Vulnerability to climate change
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Development of rural communities
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Coastal dynamics
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Sedimentary environments
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Geological risk
Profile
Professor Antonio Zoilo Márquez García is a Geological Engineer who graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 1984. He studied a Master's degree in Marine Sciences (1990) on marine minerals, polymetallic nodules in the Mexican Pacific, obtaining the Gabino Barreda Medal for the best Master's thesis and a Ph.D. in Marine Sciences from the Postgraduate in Marine Sciences of UNAM. Specialist in coastal processes, environmental geology, coastal vulnerability due to erosion, storm surge, and flooding due to climate change.
Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus since 1990, with courses in Geology, Marine Geology, and Climate Change. Professor at the Graduate Program in Marine Sciences, UNAM, teaching courses on Marine Geology and Oceanographic Methods since 1988).
Author of 20 research articles, eight national and international book chapters, and more than 60 international and national congresses. With topics on the problems of coastal erosion and geological vulnerability and risk, and climate change in Campeche, Tabasco, Riviera Maya, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and other states.
Responsible for research projects on coastal vulnerability in the Pacific coast, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea for PEMEX, SECTUR, CONABIO, IMTA, SEMARNAT, CFE, among other governmental institutions.
He is part of the COMMUNITY EXTERNSION PROGRAM OF UAM Iztapalapa Campus, as responsible for physical and social diagnostic studies in rural communities, specializing in geological risk, hydrology, solid waste, water quality, and supporting municipal development programs among other university activities in communities in the state of Oaxaca and Chiapas.
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