Biological Expedition to Guadalupe and Cedros Islands, Mexico

May 12–24, 2001

Acknowledgements

The Searcher at Fisherman’s Landing, San Diego, waiting for the 14 participants to board. Photo credit: A. Colin Matheson, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

We thank the University of California’s UC MEXUS program; the Australian Department of Industry, Science, and Technology; and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations for financial support. Participants who provided financial support for the expedition are David Bates, Richard Hawley, Laurie Lippitt, and Nicole Nedeff. Some financial assistance was also provided from research funds of Dr. Scott Stephens (University of California, Berkeley) and Dr. Ernesto Franco (Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California). Carl Jackovich contributed his professional tree-climbing skills to the expedition.

We are grateful for the very generous, spirited, and skillful contributions of all the participants, those mentioned previously and Dr. Javier López Upton, Celerino Montes, Tadashi Moody, and Ana Ma. Padilla Villavicencio. All 14 participants were involved in cone collections, mapping, tree descriptions, coring, and other related activities.

We appreciate the gracious reception on Guadalupe Island provided by Admiral Manuel Calderón Lanz of the Mexican navy and the assistance of the following individuals in transporting bags of cones on foot over difficult terrain on Guadalupe Island:
Teniente de Corbeta Gabriél Soto Machado
Teniente de Corbeta Javiér Guillén Herrera
Maestre Ernesto Preciado Mercado
Marine Manuel Alberto Euan Vidrio
Marine Univer Cabrera de León

We are grateful for the assistance of Francisco Javiér Maytorena and Mario Urias who contributed their time and vehicles on Guadalupe Island towards transporting participants, equipment, and bags of pine cones between the camp site and the navy station, some twenty miles apart.

We appreciate the support and permission of the Mexican Ministry of the Interior (Dirección General de Gobierno, Secretaría de Gobernación) and the National Institute of Ecology (Dirección General de Vida Silvestre, Instituto Nacional de Ecología) to land on Guadalupe and Cedros Islands and make collections of cones and stem cores.

We thank the Mexican consular offices in San Franciso, CA USA and in Canberra, Australia, for assistance in obtaining the appropriate research visas for expedition participants. We are also grateful for the helpful recommendations provided by Patricia Beller of the San Diego Natural History Museum and the support and insight offered by Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra, President of the National Institute of Ecology, Mexico.

We thank the owner-operators of Searcher Natural History Tours, Art Taylor and Celia Condit, for valuable assistance in trip preparation and excellent support during the expedition. We greatly appreciate the support and enthusiasm of the Searcher’s captain (Art Taylor) and crew (Sara Grose, Kevin Ward, Sean Ward, Kurt Sherer, Rik Treamer, Greg Hauck, and Paul Houlihan).

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