Roberto Carmona Piña received his Ph.D. from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in 2006. He has been a tenured researcher at UABCS for 36 years. To date, he has published more than 150 research papers with dissemination in national and international journals and has directed 50 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral theses. He conducts studies of waterbird ecology in northwestern Mexico, with shorebirds being his most important taxonomic group. In 2019 he received the Lewis W. Oring Lifetime Achievement Award for Shorebird Research, by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group, the most recognized international conservation body for this taxonomic group. In conservation, through his initiative and in collaboration with Pronatura Noroeste, five Mexican sites have been included in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network and two of them have been reclassified, in addition to the inclusion of four species of shorebirds in the Mexican Official Standard NOM-059. Roberto is also very invested in the birds of the scarce southern Californian oases, particularly the Peninsular Mascarita (Geothlypis beldingi), a bird endemic to the scarce freshwater bodies of the southern peninsula. Additionally, he and his work group have promoted bird tourism in different parts of northwestern Mexico, because they are convinced that if a sustainable use (bird tourism) of the resource (birds) is achieved, the residents themselves will be the first to be interested in promoting its conservation.