CEDO is the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans.
The acronym CEDO comes from the Spanish name: Centro Intercultural de Estudios de Desiertos y Océanos.

Located in Puerto Peñasco

Puerto Peñasco

Puerto Peñasco is a city and municipality located in the northwest of the state of Sonora about 100 km from the Arizona border. It is located on the small strip of land that joins the peninsula of Baja California with the rest of Mexico. The area is part of the Altar Desert, one of the driest...

, Sonora

Sonora

Sonora officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 72 municipalities; the capital city is Hermosillo....

, Mexico, since 1980, CEDO is a center for the study of the ecosystems of the Sonoran Desert

Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest...

 and the Sea of Cortez.

Conservation and Research

CEDO has many different efforts in the conservation of the Gulf of California. A few of these focuses include sustainable fisheries

Sustainable fisheries

Sustainability in fisheries combines theoretical disciplines, such as the population dynamics of fisheries, with practical strategies, such as avoiding overfishing through techniques such as individual fishing quotas, curtailing destructive and illegal fishing practices by lobbying for appropriate...

, coastal conservation, wetland research, community education and monthly climatological reports on Puerto Peñasco.

Awards

On September 25, co-directors Richard and Peggy Turk Boyer traveled to the Annual Meeting of the Organization of Biological Field Stations in Michigan to receive its 2010 Human Diversity Award, awarding CEDO's extraordinary achievements in promoting diversity and inclusion of various cultures, ages, and levels of knowledge in their scientific research projects, and especially acknowledging CEDO's work to create collaborative, inclusive systems with the local communities and businesses for sustainable fisheries and other commercial developments of the Northern Gulf of California.
On November 26, 2007, CEDO won Mexico's National Conservation of Nature Award for their 27 year effort to protect the Gulf of California. Mexico's top environmental award recognized CEDO for all of the intercultural research and conservation work put forth since 1980. "We are absolutely thrilled to receive this honor. As everyone knows, there are a lot of challenges in conservation today. It is very gratifying to know that our efforts, although sometimes controversial, are appreciated by authorities at the national level in Mexico."
Peggy J. Turk said from Tucson, Arizona, where CEDO has a U.S. office.

Ext lks

• http://www.cedointercultural.org/
• http://www.cedointercultural.org/images/stories/cedo_national_conservation_award_2007.pdf
• http://marinediscovery.arizona.edu/cedo.html