At the SESYNC Boundary Spanning conference I presented the preliminary synthesis of our MORSL project in a poster titled Synthesizing data, concepts, and models in interdisciplinary research of coupled systems. Here is the abstract: In this poster we examine the challenges of synthesizing and integrating data, concepts, models, and understandings in interdisciplinary research of coupled human and natural systems. Our research team examined the impact of fish canals on the coupled systems in the Logone Floodplain in Cameroon. Our hypothesis was that the impact of the thousands of man-made fish canals would equal that of large-scale dams. Simulations of our coupled model of floods and fish populations indicate that the impact of canals on fish population dynamics is minimal as canals catch fish just prior to the high natural mortality of the dry season. Our findings indicate that the canals are a highly efficient fishing technique that is well adapted to the boom-and-bust dynamics of floodplain fish, but also that they are sensitive to changes in flooding patterns. This is critical because our analysis of past climate and simulations of future climate in the watershed indicate that flooding patterns are likely to become more variable in the future. In the poster, we discuss how we overcame the challenges of synthesizing and integrating data, concepts and models from ethnographic research, socio-economic surveys, fishery studies, remote sensing, hydraulic modeling and hydroclimatic modeling in an integrated computer model that meaningfully represents the dynamics of the coupled systems in the floodplain.