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Project with Nikolaus Schareika
Nikolaus Schareika, Professor at Göttingen University, and I have started a new research project on African pastoral systems. After almost two years of Skype meetings, we were able to work for day in…
New Working Group
Together with colleagues in the department I have started a new working group. We are currently in the process of developing a graduate program in the study of social-ecological systems, which is…
Pastoralists fleeing Boko Haram face new challenges in Cameroon
Mouadjamou Ahmadou and I wrote a short piece for The Conversation about pastoralist refugees in Cameroon. It describes the challenges they face as they are forced to migrate to areas that are unknown…
It's official
Our grant proposal Pastoral Territoriality as a Dynamic Coupled System - Joy McCorriston (PI), Ian Hamilton and Mark Moritz - will be funded by the National Science Foundation’s Dynamics of Coupled…
Paper published in Journal of Hydrology
Our first MORSL paper on modeling the hydraulics of the Logone Floodplain is out in the Journal of Hydrology. Alfonso Fernández, Mohammad Reza Najafi, Michael Durand, Bryan G. Mark, Mark Moritz,…
Oil extraction threatens the Logone Floodplain
IUCN Netherlands is partnering with our collaborator ACEEN because of the threat of oil exploration and extraction in the Logone Floodplain, which puts fisheries, pastoralism, agriculture, and Waza…
Story of Us
The Anthropology podcast, A Story of Us, developed and produced by the graduate students in our deparment, has gone live. You can access it here or on iTunes. Starting in August 2016, they will be…
FMD model published at OpenABM
An agent-based model that examines the role of livestock mobility on the transmission of foot-and-mouth disease is posted at OpenABM. The purpose of the model is to understand how host mobility…
Big Data's Streetlight Effect
Another version of my piece on big data - Big data’s ‘streetlight effect’: where and how we look affects what we see - was published by the Conversation, which is an independent source of news and…