Education

• Bachelor’s. Biology. Thesis: “Composition and Structure of the Community of Cryptic and Sedentary Fish in Reef Heads off Mahahual, Southern Coast of Quintana Roo.” Thesis completed at ECOSUR, Chetumal. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), Morelia, Michoacán. 1996
• Master’s. Master of Science in Natural Resources and Regional Development. Thesis: “Composition and Spatio-Temporal Variation of the Fish Community in the Chacmochuch Lagoon System, Quintana Roo, Mexico”. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Chetumal, Quintana Roo. 2002
• Doctorate. Ph.D. in Marine Sciences. Thesis: “Biodiversity and trophic structure of a lagoon system and an island system in the northern Mexican Caribbean.” Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN), Mérida, YUcatán. 2011

Current research

• Sustainability of aquatic ecosystems

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Composition and Abundance of the Fish Fauna in the Isla Contoy Lagoon System. Amigos de Isla Contoy, A.C.
• Collaborator: The Impact of Megaprojects on Socio-ecological Systems from a Transdisciplinary Perspective: The Comprehensive Development Program in the Maya Train Territories. CONACYT PRONAII.
• Collaborator: Importance of environmental heterogeneity as a juvenile fish habitat, a focus on commercially important species in coastal lagoons of southeastern Mexico. PAPIIT-UNAM.
• Analysis of water quality and grain size distribution, and determination of seagrass biomass for the proposed sites at Punta Sam and Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo. Ingeniería COLISEUM S.A. DE C.V.
• Prospective study of the diversity and abundance of fish species, with special emphasis on the population dynamics of the Atlantic shad (Megalops atlanticus) in the Laguna Manatí State Protected Natural Area. IBANRQROO.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Antonio Almazán-Becerril, Jorge C. Peniche-Pérez, Benjamín Delgado-Pech, José Adán Caballero-Vázquez y María del Carmen García-Rivas. Reef fish mortalities in the Mexican Caribbean: report of two cases. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research. 53(1). 6. 2005. DOI: 10.3856/vol53-issue1-fulltext-3265
• María Amparo Rodríguez-Santiago, José Adán Caballero-Vázquez, Enrique Ávila, José Sandoval-Interián, Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo, José Iannacone-Oliver, David Tafolla-Venegas, Jorge Carlos Peniche-Pérez, Rolando Gelabert-Fernández. Parasite diversity and regional variation in invasive red lionfish Pterois volitans. Biological Invasions. 28:6. 4-15. 2026. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-025-03713-2
• Rosiles-González G, Almazán-Becerril A, Carrillo-Jovel VH, Peniche-Pérez JC, Caballero-Vázquez JA, Moreno Valenzuela OA, Bautista-García JE, Leal-Bautista RM, Hernández-Zepeda C.. Surveillance of Enteric Viruses, Enterococci, and PMMoV in Sargassum-Impacted Coastal Waters in the Mexican Caribbean. Food and Environmental Virology. 17:57. 1-13. 2025. doi: 10.1007/s12560-025-09672-0. PMID: 41348408.
• María Amparo Rodríguez-Santiago, Enrique Ávila Torres, José Adán Caballero-Vázquez, María Lilibeth Cupil-Ruiz, Ismael Orozco-Maldonado. Invasive fish parasites in aquatic environments of the Mexican Caribbean and southeastern Mexico. Journal of the Faculty of Marine Sciences, Autonomous University of Sinaloa. 12. 49-70. 2026
     
• Cejudo, E., Acosta-González, G., Alvarado-Flores, J., Peniche-Pérez, J.C., Bautista-García, J.E., Leal-Bautista, R.M., Ortega-Camacho, D., Rosiles-González, G., Caballero-Vázquez, J.A. y Hernández-Zepeda, C.. The condition status index for doline lakes in urban areas. Scientific Reports. 14:26. 815. 2026

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• Mexican Ichthyological Society (SIMAC). http://www.sociedadictiologicamexicana.org.
• Network for the Study of Coastal Resources (RECORECOS) http://www.sociedadictiologicamexicana.org/, http://www.sisal.unam.mx/recorecos/RED/Inicio.html.
• Gulf Cand Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) https://www.gcfi.org..