Education

• B.S. Biology. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2002.
• M.S. Marine Biology. Centro de Investigación y de Estudio Avanzados. 2005.
• Ph.D. Marine Sciences. Centro de Investigación y de Estudio Avanzados. 2013.

Current research

• Water Security in Socio-Environmental Systems

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Meteoric Water Line of the Yucatán Península. Fondo Sectorial de Investigación para la Educación (CB-2016-01 No. 286049).
• Atlas of Wetlands in the South-Southeast and Their Threats. Fondo Sectorial de Investigación y Desarrollo sobre el Agua (CONAGUA ‐ CONACYT 2018).
• Technical Characterization Studies of Sargassum Aimed at Generating Regulations Associated With Risks and Its Potential Productive Use. Fondo Sectorial de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias Navales (SEMAR-CONACYT).
• Impact of Megaprojects on Socio-Ecological Systems From a Transdisciplinary Perspective: the Comprehensive Development Program in the Maya Train area. (PRONACES-CONACyT M0037-2019-05)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Daniel N.I. Smith, Daniela Ortega-Camacho, Gilberto Acosta-Gonzalez, Rosa Maria Leal-Bautista, William Ernest Fox III and Eduardo Cejudo. A multi-approach assessment of land use effects on groundwater quality in a karstic aquifer. Heliyon, 6: 1-11, (2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402030815X.
• Eduardo Cejudo, Gilberto Acosta-González, Daniela Ortega-Camacho y Giovani Emmanuel Tun-Rosado. Changes in the hydrochemistry of a karstic lake in Yucatan, Mexico. Environmental Earth Sciences, 79: 1-13, (2020). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-020-8838-3.
• Martínez‐Rendis, A, Acosta‐González, G, Arias‐González, JE. A spatio‐temporal long‐term assessment on the ecological response of reef communities in a Caribbean marine protected area. Aquatic Conserv: Mar Freshw Ecosyst. , 30: 273-289, (2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aqc.3263.
• Rosa María Leal-Bautista, Melissa Lenczewski, Gilberto Acosta González, Cinthya Grimaldo Hernández. Evaluation of water quality through a distribution sytem in Cancun, Mexico. Revista Sociedad y Ambiente, 21 : 53-75, (2019). https://revistas.ecosur.mx/sociedadyambiente/index.php/sya/article/view/2039.
• Rosiles-González G Ávila-Torres G, Moreno-Valenzuela OA, Chaidez-Quiroz C, Hernández-Flores Cesar, Acosta-González G, Bentacourt Walter, Gerba Charles, Hernández-Zepeda C. Norovirus and Human Adenovirus occurrence and diversity in recreational water in a karst aquifer in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. J Appl Microbiol, 127: 1255-1269, (2019). https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jam.14385.

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• Personal website. https://acosta-gonzalez-gilberto.weebly.com
• Geographic Information System for Water SIGA-CONAGUA. http://siga.cna.gob.mx/.
• ORCID. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8683-7156.