Resume

• 2008

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Environmental studies

  University of California

  Santa Cruz

• 2002

  M.Sc.

  Dryland Biodiversity/Biology

  Addis Ababa University

• 1994

  B.Sc.

  Biology

  Addis Ababa University

• 014

  Introduction to Python for Data Science (edX) Course

  DataCamp

• Ecology

  Environmental Science

  Sustainable Agriculture

  Grant Writing

  Science

  Field Work

  Biodiversity

  Biology

  Teaching

  Data Collection

  Natural Resource Management

  Community Ecology

  Research

  Environmental Education

  Statistics

  Remote Sensing

  Sustainable Development

  Environmental Awareness

  Ecosystem Services

  Landscape Ecology

  Prospects for forest-based ecosystem services in forest-coffee mosaics as forest loss continues in southwestern Ethiopia

  Erika Zavaleta

  Prospects for forest-based ecosystem services in forest-coffee mosaics as forest loss continues in southwestern Ethiopia

  Erika Zavaleta

  Effects of land-use changes on woody species distribution and above-ground carbon storage of forest-coffee systems

  Margaret Fitzsimmons

  Carol Shennan

  Erika Zavaleta

  We used remote sensing and surveys to assess deforestation in southwest Ethiopia.\n•Geospatial analysis and local perceptions corroborate rapid deforestation.\n•Deforestation rates varied in space and time.\n•Temporal variations overlapped with land-tenure and agricultural development policies.\n•Regional variations correlated with demographic factors and livelihood practices.

  Policy and demographic factors shape deforestation patterns and socio-ecological processes in southwest Ethiopian coffee agroecosystems

  Dryland woody vegetation along the eastern escarpment of Welo

  Ethiopia

  Biodiversity and liverlihoods in southwestern ethiopia: forest loss and prospects for conservation in coffee agroecosystems

  Erika Zavaleta

  Coffee landscapes as refugia for native woody biodiversity as forest loss continues in southwest Ethiopia

  Margaret Fitzsimmons

  Erika Zavaleta

  Local ecosystem service use and assessment vary with socio-ecological conditions: A case of native coffee-forests in southwestern Ethiopia

  Getachew Tadesse

  Eshete

  Ph.D.

  Cascadia College

  Ministry of Education

  Addis Ababa University

  Education

  University of California

  Santa Cruz

  Education and Research\nExtensive ecological and ethnographic fieldwork on forest and agroecological systems in southwest Ethiopia \n\nAssisted professors in instruction and management of undergraduate environmental studies courses. Planned and taught laboratory and discussion sections and oversaw independent student projects. Graded written work. Worked with students to address their questions and concerns

  and facilitated exam preparation.\n\n

  University of California

  Santa Cruz

  Cascadia College

  Bothell

  Washington

  Courses Taught\n * Majors Animal

  Zoology\n * Majors Plant

  Botany\n * Majors Cellular

  Cell Biology; General Biology\n * Survey of the Kingdoms\n * Human Biology \n * Anatomy and Physiology\n * Environmental Science\n\nUniversity of California

  Santa Cruz -Teaching assistant: 2009-2013\n * Chemical and Physical Environment\n * Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems \n * Principles of Sustainable Agriculture\n * Ecology and Society\n * Tropical Ecology and conservation\n * Restoration Ecology\n

  Priority-Hire Professor

  Teaching

  writing course materials\nHigh school biology

  Education

  Ministry of Education

  Regional colleges

  and health colleges in Addis Ababa

  Taught undergraduate students

  developed teaching material

  advised undergraduate students.\nCourses: Introductory Biology

  General zoology

  health science

  Anatomy and physiology

  biochemistry

  Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer

  Addis Ababa

  Collected field data

  analyzed

  written progress and terminal reports for the project on indigenous knowledge

  use

  management and conservation of plant and other environmental resources in southern Rift Valley

  Ethiopia. \n\nEstablished experimental plots and developed a proposal on carbon and water relations of plant functional types on an Afromontane forest

  Ethiopia.\n\nCollaborated with field research on an agroecological assessment of the Gughe mountains of Ethiopia

  in order to nominate the region for designation as a UN Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System

  Assistant Researcher - Ethnobotanist/Ecologist

  Addis Ababa University

  Teaching

  Research

  Consulting\nTeaching: Developed syllabus

  lectured and lead laboratory classes

  advised undergraduate students.\nCourses:\nPrinciples and Applications of Taxonomy\nGeneral Biology\nReport Writing in Science\nEcology and Conservation\nSeed Plants

  Addis Ababa University

  Society for Conservation Biology

  Amharic

  English

  Research Grant

  The Christensen Fund

  Teaching Assistant of The Year

  University of California

  Santa Cruz