Áreas de Interés: Tectónica sedimentaria, sedimentología.

Intereses en Docencia: Sedimentología.

Intereses en Investigación:

• Cuencas extensionales en el Golfo de California
• Sedimentología asociada con algas calcáreas coralinas

Proyectos actuales :

Interacción océano tierra en la generación de sedimentos carbonatados; Golfo de California. UABC

La búsqueda de los eventos vicariantes en El Golfo de California: Tiempo y Espacio: UNAM, Investigador Responsable Dra. Analuisa Carreño.

El Origen Filogenético de la Flora Marina del Pacifico Este: La Influencia del Mar de Thetys: CONACYT-SEP, Investigador Responsable Dr. Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez UABCS.

Paleoicnología de costas rocosas y carbonatos asociados en la Macaronesia: Investigador responsable Dr. Eduardo J. Mayoral Alfaro. Universidad de Huelva, Universidad de Lisboa. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.

Intereses en Extensión y Vinculación : Estratigrafía de secuencias, Sedimentología, Sistemas sedimentarios marinos, selección de sitios costero.

Publicaciones Recientes:

Ledesma-Vázquez J., and A.L. Carreño, 2010, Origin, age, and geological evolution of the Gulf of California: in Brusca (ed.): The Gulf of California; Biodiversity and Conservation: University of Arizona Press .

Johnson , M.E. , and J. Ledesma-Vázquez (eds), 2009, Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of California: Past and Present: University of Arizona Press . 180 p. 1 CD.

Ledesma-Vázquez J., Markes E. Johnson, O. E. Gonzalez-Yajimovich, and Eduardo Santamaría-del Angel, 2009, Gulf of California Geography, Geological Origins, Coastal Oceanography, and Sedimentation Patterns; in Johnson and Ledesma-Vázquez (eds.): Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of California: Past and Present: University of Arizona Press.

Backus, D.H., M. E. Johnson, and J. Ledesma-Vázquez, 2009, Peninsular and Island Rocky Shores in the Gulf of California ; in Johnson and Ledesma-Vázquez (eds.): Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of California: Past and Present: University of Arizona Press

Johnson , M.E. , and J. Ledesma-Vázquez, 2009, Pliocene and Pleistocene Development of Peninsular and Island Rocky Shores in the Gulf of California ; in Johnson and Ledesma-Vázquez (eds.): Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of California: Past and Present: University of Arizona Press.

Johnson, M.E., J. Ledesma-Vázquez, and A.Y. Montiel-Boehringer, 2009, Growth of Pliocene-Pleistocene Clam Banks (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and Related Tectonic Constraints in the Gulf of California; in Johnson and Ledesma-Vázquez (eds.): Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of California: Past and Present: University of Arizona Press.

Forrest, M.J. and J. Ledesma-Vázquez, 2009, Active Geothermal Springs and Pliocene-Pleistocene Examples; in Johnson and Ledesma-Vázquez (eds.): Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of California: Past and Present: University of Arizona Press.

Douglas, R., Gonzalez-Yajimovich, O., Ledesma-Vazquez, J. and Staines-Urias, F., 2007, Climate Forcing, primary production and the distribution of Holocene biogenic sediment in the Gulf of California . Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 26, 1-2: 115-129.

Aguirre-bielschowsky, I., J. Ledesma-Vázquez, L. W. DAESSLE, and G. Rendón, 2007, Insights into the Formation of San Clemente Basin, off Baja California, México: Lithological Observations and Geochemistry of Marine Minerals: Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, 25:1–10

Ledesma-Vázquez, J, ME Johnson, DH Backus, C Mirabal-Davila, 2007, Coastal evolution from transgressive barrier deposit to marine terrace on Isla Coronados, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Ciencias Marinas 33(4): 335–351

Johnson, M.E, R.A. López-Pérez, C.R. Ransom, and J. Ledesma-Vázquez, 2007, Late Pleistocene coral-reef development on Isla Coronados, Gulf of California: Ciencias Marinas , 33 (2), 105–120

Sewell, AA, ME Johnson, DH Backus, J Ledesma-Vázquez, 2007, Rhodolith detritus impounded by a coastal dune on Isla Coronados, Gulf of California Ciencias Marinas , 33(4): 483–494