Profesor, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales
Adjunct Profesor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Actividades administrativas

Especialidad temática

Dimensiones Humanas del Cambio Global Ambiental, Ciencia de la Información Geográfica (GISc), Sensores Remotos, Análisis Espacial y Modelamiento, Manejo de Ecosistemas, Áreas Protegidas, Geografía de la Población y Demografía Espacial, Ecología Tropical.

Educación

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D., Geography, 2007
Graduate Certificate in International Development, 2007
Dissertation: Land use trajectories in the Ecuadorian Amazon: socioeconomic drivers, spatial explicit modeling, and future scenarios.

Florida International University, Miami, FL
Master in Science, Environmental Studies Department, 2001
Thesis: Deforestation and land use patterns in the Napo Basin

Escuela Politécnica del Ejército, Quito, Ecuador

Honores académicos

• Earth Systems Science Fellowship. National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)
• Pre-Doctoral Traineeship. NIH Fogarty International Center - Carolina Population Center
• Anne U. White Fund Grant. Association of American Geographers
• Residency Grant. Mellon Foundation - Carolina Population Center
• Future Faculty Fellowship. UNC Center for Teaching and Learning
• Pre-dissertation Fieldwork Award. UNC Institute Latin American Studies
• NSF-IGERT Fellow. Carolina Population Center - National Science Foundation

Publicaciones (Peer Reviewed)

Mena CF (In Press). Trajectories of Land Use and Land Cover in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Temporal Composition, Spatial Configuration, and Probability of Change. Photogrammetric Engineeringand Remote Sensing.

Walsh SJ, Malanson GP, Brown DG, Messina JP, Mena CF (In Press). Biocomplexity. In: Handbook of Biogeography, M. Blumler M, G. MacDonald, A. Millington, U. Schickhoff (Editors), Sage Publications, London.

Walsh SJ, Mena CF, Shao Y, McCleary A. (In Press) Integration of Hyperion Satellite Data and Socio-Economic Survey Data to Characterize the Pattern, Causes, and Consequences of Secondary Forest Succession in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.

Walsh SJ, Messina JP, Mena CF, Page P (2008). Complexity and Land Use Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, GeoForum 38:867-872.

Walsh SJ, McCleary A, Mena CF,  Tuttle J, Shao Y, Atkinson R, Gonzales A,  (2008). Hyper-Spatial and Hyper-Spectral Remote Sensing of an Invasive Plant in the Galapagos National Park and Archipelago: Spatial Structure and Implications for Control, Remote Sensing of the Environment 112: 1927–1941 

Rindfuss RR, Entwisle B, Walsh SJ, Mena CF, Erlien CM, Gray CL (In Press). Frontier Land Use Change: Synthesis and Next Steps, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4): 739-754

Mena CF, Bilsborrow RE, McClain ME (2006). Socioeconomic Drivers of Deforestation in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Environmental Management 37(6): 802-815.

Mena CF, Barbieri A, Walsh SJ, Erlien CM, Bilsborrow RE, Lu F (2006). Pressure on the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve: Development and Land Use/Cover Change in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. World Development 34(10): 1831-1849.

Messina J, Walsh SJ, Mena CF, Delamater P (2006). Land Tenure and Deforestation Patterns in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Conflicts in Land Conservation in Frontier Settings. Applied Geography 26(2): 113-128.

Erlien CM, Tuttle JP, McCleary AL, Mena CF, Walsh SJ (2006). Complexity Theory and Spatial Models of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics: Implications of “What if” Scenarios for Education, Land Management, and Decision-Making, Geocarto 21(4):67-74.