Carolina Priscila Peña Alonso

Carolina Priscila Peña Alonso is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, affiliated with the GIR IOCAG (Geography, Environment, and Geographic Information Technologies) and the IU of Oceanography and Global Change. Her research focuses on socio-ecological interactions in coastal systems, particularly beach-dune dynamics under climate change.

• Specializes in sustainable management of coastal environments
• Uses GIS and modeling for environmental assessment
• Works on human-nature conflict resolution in coastal zones

Her projects address climate change impacts on arid beach-dune systems, socio-environmental conflicts in Canary Islands, and urban-coastal interactions. Funding sources include national ministries and regional authorities. She collaborates with multidisciplinary teams in environmental science and computational oceanography units.

Primary email contact: carolina.pena@ulpgc.es