Angélica Almeyda Zambrano

•  Aug 2008 
  Center for Latin American Studies Research Funds, Stanford University
•  May 2008 
  Dissertation Research Opportunity Funds, Vice-Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University
•  Apr 2007 
  Poverty and Environment Network Dissertation Funds, Center for International Forestry Research
•  Mar 2007 
  Morrison Institute of Population and Environment Research Funds, Stanford University
•  Jun 2006 
  O'Bie Shultz Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,
•  Jun 2006 
  Graduate Research Opportunity Funds, of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
•  Aug 2004 
  Stanford Doctoral Fellowship/TA/RA, Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University
•  Apr 2004 
  NASA/MCT LBA-ECO Field Grant, University of Florida and Woods Hole Research
•  Apr 2003 
  Tropical Conservation and Development Field Research Grant, Tropical Conservation and Development Pr
•  Aug 2002 
  OAS Graduate Fellowship, Organization of American States
•  Jul 2000 
  Summer Institute Fellowship, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research

I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University where my academic advisor is Dr. William H. Durham. I am also a graduate student researcher in Gregory Asner’s lab in the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University. I graduated as a Forest Engineer from La Molina University in Lima, Peru and obtained my MA in Latin American Studies from University of Florida with a concentration in Tropical Conservation and Development. My doctoral interests are in comparing the impacts of development policies, specially road development and land tenure, on small farmers land use and land cover change across the Amazonian tri-national frontier of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. I have conducted research on social-economic and environmental consequences of eco-tourism in Costa Rica and continue to remain involved in forest ecology projects, including investigating nutrient cycling issues following slash/burn agriculture in the Amazon and microclimate and physiology of tropical forests in Hawaii.