Mariya Deren, M.S

Administrative and Project Coordinator

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Mariya Deren is Administrative and Project Coordinator for the Center for Humans and Nature in New York. Having grown up in Russia, Mariya has spent most summers of her childhood in a rural, remote countryside. This experience has awakened her to the interest of studying natural systems and human interactions with them. During her undergraduate work, Mariya has studied biochemistry at SUNY Stony Brook with a focus on amphibian reproduction and biotechnology. During her study, Mariya has spent two summers working as an intern at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome and studying various agricultural systems. After graduation form Stony Brook, Mariya worked at the Institute for Cancer Genetics in Columbia Medical Center as a laboratory assistant while studying at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in an evening certificate program in Conservation Biology.

Her interest in conservation and natural resource management took her to Amsterdam where she has finished a master’s program in Environment and Resource Management.

During her master’s studies, Mariya has competed fieldwork in Uganda that culminated in her master’s thesis. There she has studied the impacts of climate change on agricultural practices and policies as well as local adaptation strategies to land degradation.

Mariya’s interests include the effects of industrial agriculture on soil biology, impacts of climate change together with population and economic growth on food security, and environmental consequences of rapid urbanization.

Contact:

Mariya Deren
Administrative and Project Coordinator
Center for Humans and Nature
109 W. 77th Street, Suite 2
New York, NY 10024
212-362-7170; 212-362-9592 fax
mariyaderen@humansandnature.org