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Andrea Alatorre Troncoso

Career Interests

Conservation, Payments for Ecosystem Services, Protected Areas, Land Use Change, Latin-America

Employment Sought:

Internships

Education

Master of Environmental Management, May 2019

Nicholas School of the Environment

Duke University, Durham, NC

Concentration: Environmental Economics & Policy

Master of Science, September 2014

Imperial College, London

Concentration: Conservation Science

Bachelor of Science, June 2013

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Major: Biology

Professional Experience

Nicholas Institute

Performing a literature review and constructing results chains using Mendeley and R and gathering survey data from India for a Catalyst Program on rural energy access under Drs. Lydia Olander and Marc Jeuland. January to May 2018

Gathered evidence through a literature review to construct results chains for nitrogen fertilizer management practices under Dr. Lydia Olander. September to December 2017

UNAM

Contributed to publications related to carbon footprint measurements, the sugar agroindustry, social impacts of mining in Mexico and improved cookstoves by constructing maps, translating documents, transcribing interviews and writing scientific papers, under Dr. Cynthia Armendariz Arnez. October 2010 to August 2017

Developed reports from literature reviews on payments for ecosystem services, community land tenure, land use change and sustainable desert crops for Prof. Irene Pisanty Baruch. May 2012 to January 2013

Additional Information

PUBLICATIONS

Social Perceptions about the Effects of New Large-Scale Mining Practices on a Historic Mexican Mining Township. 2017. Alatorre-Troncoso, Armendáriz & Troncoso.

Working paper. Transcribed and coded interviews with community-members living in mining townships. Prepared a scientific paper for publication.

Mexico’s national payments for ecosystem services programme: in the wrong place at the right time. 2014. [http://bit.ly/2esYsKu].

Performed a gap analysis using QGis, designed and implemented a web survey for protected area managers, estimated costs of implementing PES in key locations.

Preliminary evaluation of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in Cuatrociénegas, Coahuila. 2013. [http://bit.ly/2e8rDbe].

Conducted and coded interviews with community leaders participating in PES, performed in situ verification and digital image processing.

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS AND EVENTS

Imperial College: Graduated with Merit from MSc (September 2014)

Imperial College: Awarded the Imperial College bursary for Masters’ thesis work (April 2014)

UNAM: Graduated with Honors from BSc (April 2014)