Yamilett Karina Carrillo Guerrero, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Geosciences

Phone: (520) 626-3323
E-mail: yamilettcg@gmail.com

Areas of expertise: water conservation, wetland restoration, international watershed management, natural resource economics, geospatial analysis

PhD. 2009. University of Arizona, Renewable Natural Resources Studies, Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences

MSc. 2002. University of Arizona, Renewable Natural Resources Studies BA. 1998. Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Economics


Yamilett Carrillo has worked in the restoration of the Colorado River delta ecosystem since 1999. Her expertise includes wetland management and restoration, water conservation, environmental economics, management of water resources in arid lands, and geospatial analysis. She has worked on several wetland restoration projects as well as watershed and aquifer management plans through out Northwestern Mexico.

Yamilett's work in the Colorado River delta ecosystem has been as research analyst of water use in agriculture, wetland restoration and the linkages with agricultural use of surface and groundwater, geospatial modelling of natural resource use by stakeholders, water management of shared rivers.

Yamilett is currently doing a post-doc at the Geosciences Department of the University of Arizona with Dr. Karl Flessa (Geosciences) and Dr. Laura Lopez-Hoffman on research about the Delta's largest remaining wetland, the Cienega de Santa Clara, located in Sonora, Mexico. 

Her work focuses on addressing limited water resource availability for this ecosystem and identifying water management scenarios that could help conserve the ecosystem services that Cienega provides.