Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineer. Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla. 1989.
• M.S. Environmental Engineering. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1997.
• Ph.D. Geology. Northern Illinois University. 2005.

Current research

• Water Security in Socio-Environmental Systems

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Technical studies of Sargassum sp. characterization oriented to generate risk and potential use regulations (CONACyT-SEMAR)
• Water Resources and Quality at the Riviera Maya (NIU-NSF REU Site)
• Aspects of the Hydrogeology of southern Campeche and southeastern Quintana Roo, Mexico

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Rosa M. Leal-Bautista, Eugene C. Perry, Jesús Alvarado-Flores, Liliana Alzate-Gavira, Jorge A. Domínguez-Maldonado, Raúl Tapia-Tussell. Karst Drainage of Lake Chakanbacán and its relation to Icaiche Formation. Karst Drainage of Lake Chakanbacán and its relation to Icaiche Formation.Boletin Soc. Geologica Mexicana.73(1). A021020. 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2021v73n1a021020.
• Eugene C. Perry, Rosa M. Leal-Bautista, Guadalupe Velázquez-Olimán, Joan A. Sánchez-Sánchez, Nikklas Wagner. Aspects of the Hydrogeology of southern Campeche and Quintana Roo. Boletin Soc.Geologica Mexicana. 73(1). A0111020. 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2021v73n1a011020.
• Liliana Alzate-Gaviria, Jorge Domínguez-Maldonado ,Rubí Chablé-Villacís ,Edgar Olguin-Maciel, Rosa María Leal-Bautista, Gonzalo Canché-Escamilla, Adán Caballero-Vázquez ,Cecilia Hernández-Zepeda, Felipe Alonso Barredo-Pool and Raúl Tapia-Tussel. Presence of Polyphenols Complex Aromatic “Lignin” in Sargassum spp. from Mexican Caribbean. J. Mar. Sci. Eng.9(1). 6. 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9010006.
• Valeria Chávez *,Abigail Uribe-Martínez ,Eduardo Cuevas ,Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez ,Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek ,Vanessa Francisco ,Miriam Estévez,Lourdes B. Celis ,L. Verónica Monroy-Velázquez4,Rosa Leal-Bautista,Lorenzo Álvarez-Filip ,Marta García-Sánchez ,Luis Masia and Rodolfo Silva *. Massive Influx of Pelagic Sargassum spp. on the Coasts of the Mexican Caribbean 2014–2020: Challenges and Opportunities. WATER. 12. 2908. 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12102908.
• Juan Carlos Zamora-Luria, Jorge Adrián Perera-Burgos,Alfredo González-Calderón,Luis E. Marin Stillman y Rosa Ma. Leal-Bautista*. Control off fracture networks on a coastal karstic aquifer : a case study from northeastern Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico). HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-020-02237-4.

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• REU site is in collaboration with Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) and Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán (CICY). https://www.niu.edu/ese/reu/index.shtml
• National Groundwater Assosiation. https://www.ngwa.org/
• International Association of Hydrogeologist. https://iah.org/