Faculty Biography Axhel A. Muñoz, M.A. |
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Axhel A. Muñoz is a naturalist
and dynamic environmental educator from the Sonoran Desert region. He has
participated in a variety of projects as a research assistant ranging from
pollination biology of an endangered species to intertidal plant-animal
interactions. This provides him with a broad ecological perspective. In
Puerto Rico he was involved in conservation research that lead to the creation
of the Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuge. In California he co-founded
the Rainforest Action Group at California State University, Fullerton. As
vice-president and then president of the group he help conservation projects
in Costa Rica and Brazil and brought speakers such as Norman Myers and Daniel
Janzen to the university. In Arizona he has worked for Oracle State Park,
The Nature Conservancy, and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum as an environmental
educator for kids of all ages. He has created science-based environmental
curriculums based on the Sonoran Desert Region as a model. He has taught
students from kindergarten to university, as well as designed and taught
teacher workshops. He enjoys camping, snorkeling, tide pooling, birding,
playing guitar or bongos, and getting together with friends. He lives in
a place that's almost like camping.
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