Iris J.M.M. Boumans Member since: Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 01:11 PM

Dr.

Melody Zarria-Samanamud Member since: Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 02:21 AM

BS Animal Science, MS Animal Production/ Ecology and Management of Rangelands

Phd Student

Bachelor of Science, Communication

PhD Applied Systems Science, Dipl. Biomathematics

since April 2017: PostDoc at the Department of Ecological Modeling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
since January 2015: Member of the Junior Research Group POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change.
2012-2017 PhD student at the Department of Ecological Modeling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
2006-2011 Diploma in Biomathematics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald

Dynamics of socio-ecological resource use systems
- Pasture use in dryland grazing systems under change, effects of new technologies and policy instruments, emergence of polarization between pastoralists (e.g. in terms of livestock numbers).
- Thresholds of disaster management performance under change, loss of manpower, the role of information as critical resource.
Human decision making in agent-based models.
Remote sensing and GIS.

ms environmental science

disaster resilience, flooding, ecosystem services, coupled human natural systems, land use change, hydrology, remote sensing, complexity science

PhD