Esther Zeledon, PhD

Esther has graduated! Congrats to her.  Her dissertation work, The Effect of War and Its Aftermath on Land Use and Land Cover in Jinotega Nicaragua uses integrated methods combining remote sensing and political ecology, and she tells the story of the aftermath of an armed conflict that was fought in the jungles of the Bosawas Nature Reserve, and of the impact this conflict had on the landscape.  She uses a combination of top-down views from satellites that observe change over decades, as well as oral histories across frontier areas to tell the account of land use and land cover change in Jinotega, Nicaragua. Some of her field pictures are here.