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Sara Eshleman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Remote Sensing and Ecological Modelling at the University of Exeter, working on the UKRI-funded Biodiversity and the Legacy of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Environments in the Neotropics (Bladen Legacy) project. She holds a PhD in Geography and the Environment from the University of Texas at Austin, where her dissertation focused on Maya landscape legacies in Belize using airborne lidar data, and a B.S. in Environmental Biology from Georgetown University.
- Education:
- B.S. Environmental Biology, Georgetown University
- M.A. Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
- PhD, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
Her research explores long-term human impacts on tropical environments, particularly forest composition and structure in northern Central America, using remote sensing and spatially explicit modelling at a landscape scale. She extends these methods through the Bladen Legacy project in southern Belize to understand historical human-environment interactions and their influence on modern vegetation dynamics.
Scientific Awards:
- National Geographic Young Explorer
- NDSEG fellow
- Lewis and Clark Field Scholar
- Multiple field and travel grants
Sara is committed to teaching geospatial and environmental science courses, emphasizing accessible, empirically driven learning. She has developed and taught courses online and in-person at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Central Arkansas, focusing on spatial data analysis and physical geography. She actively explores adapting experiential learning to online formats and integrating AI tools like ChatGPT into pedagogy.
