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Beyond ranching and pastoralism
Our new article is out in the journal of Agricultural and Human Values. Here is the abstract:
Livestock systems across the world are transformed by capitalist forces.…

Video on agent-based modeling for CAMP international
I contributed a 10-minute video on agent-based modeling to the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) International Curriculum. Here is a description of the curriculum. Spanning 15…

Launching to success
Chelsea Hunter, one of Ohio Sea Grant’s six Knauss Fellows, didn’t originally picture herself working in the legislative branch. The Ohio State PhD student from the Department of…

New paper in Frontiers in Conservation Science
We published a new paper for a special issue on rewilding for the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science. In the paper, we review three decades of studies of the Logone Floodplain to examine…

Chelsea Hunter graduated
Chelsea Hunter successfully defended her dissertation Co-Managing Sovereignty: Collaborative Biodiversity Conservation and Indigenous Sovereignty in Kanaky/New Caledonia and graduated on May 5th…

Artificial Pastoral Systems
We published a new paper: Moritz, Mark, Benjamin Cross, Chelsea E. Hunter. 2023. Artificial Pastoral Systems: A Review of Agent-Based Modeling Studies of Pastoral Systems. Pastoralism:…

Chelsea Hunter awarded Knauss Fellowship
Chelsea Hunter has been awarded a Knauss fellowship, which is a one-year paid opportunity for current and recent graduates from advanced degree programs to apply their scientific knowledge and…

New paper in Human Ecology
We just published a new paper in Human Ecology. Moritz, Mark, Chelsea E. Hunter, Daniel C. Peart, Abigail Buffington, Andrew J. Yoak, Jason R. Thomas, Rebecca Garabed, and Ian M. Hamilton.…

Published agent-based model
We published our new agent-based model in the CoMSES Computational Model Library. This purpose of this model is to understand how the coupled demographic dynamics of herds and households…