Nicole Acosta

PhD Student

Address

Universität Hamburg

Sustainability and Global Change

Grindelberg 5

20144 Hamburg

Office

Room: 207

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838 6385

Email: nicole.acosta"AT"studium.uni-hamburg.de

Nicole Acosta studied biology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and Juniata College, USA. She graduated as M.Sc. in Tropical Forestry at the Technische Universität Dresden in 2020 with the master thesis title "Participatory scenarios for sustainable livelihoods of farmers in the parish of La Libertad, Ecuador". She currently works on her PhD project "Joint preservation of ecological systems and farm livelihoods in the Galapagos Islands through improved food system resilience". This research will contribute to the CLICCS-C2 project Sustainable Land-Use Scenarios: Soil, Biodiversity, Water, Food and Energy Security.

Publications

Santos, F. & Acosta, N. (2023). An Approach Based on Web Scraping and Denoising Encoders to Curate Food Security Datasets. Agriculture, 13 (5).

Kimengsi, J. Owusu, R., Djenontin, I., Pretzsch, J., Giessen, L., Buchenrieder, G., Pouliot, M., & Acosta, N. (2021). What do we (not) know on forest management institutions in sub-Saharan Africa? A regional comparative review. Land Use Policy, 114, 105931.

Acosta-Vásconez, N., Carrera, M., Peñaherrera, E., & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2018). Predation on the teiid lizard Dicrodon guttulatum Duméril and Bibron, 1839 by the pitviper Porthidium arcosae Schätti and Kramer, 1993. Herpetology Notes, 11, 391-393.