About
Daniela Rivera-Marin is a physical geographer specialising in environmental, land, and vegetation dynamics. She completed her PhD in Physical Geography with a special focus on the ecological impacts of desertification, specifically a country-scale assessment of desertification that distinguishes the effects that vegetation and land changes produced over the last four decades in Chile. Prior to her PhD, she earned an MSc in Applied GIS and Remote Sensing at the University of Southampton and a Geography degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Her research covers remote sensing, vegetation dynamics, land degradation, and desertification, with particular interest in linking environmental changes to policy and mitigation/monitoring strategies under climate change contexts. Alongside her research, she is actively engaged in science communication and education through More than Maps, a platform that shares replicable and open-access tools in mapping and social science analysis to empower young people in climate change adaptation.