Florencia Pech-Cárdenas

Flor Pech-Cardenas

MW CASC Postdoctoral Researcher

Florencia is a MW CASC postdoctoral researcher leading a collaborative synthesis research project focused on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and climate adaptation based at the University of Minnesota. 

Flor was born and raised in Yucatán, Mexico. She received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Autonomous University of Yucatán and her master’s degree in Biological Sciences-Natural Resources at the Scientific Research Center of Yucatan. 

Outside of work, Flor enjoys gardening, going for walks around the University of Minnesota’s Saint Paul campus, cooking, dancing, and spending time with her husband and son. She also loves visiting her family in Yucatán. 

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