News
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Senior Thesis Pallavi Oruganti
Pallavi Oruganti, an undergraduate researcher in our DECML lab, successfully defended her senior thesis in April. The thesis, Hunters' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice towards Wildlife Disease…
Honors thesis Nathaniel Henry
Nathaniel Henry, undergraduate researcher in our MORSL lab, successfully defended his honors thesis, which uses an agent-based model to examine the economic impact on fisheries in the Logone…
CNH grant for research on pastoral territoriality
Our grant proposal Pastoral Territoriality as a Dynamic Coupled System - Joy McCorriston (PI), Ian Hamilton and Mark Moritz - will be recommended for funding by the National Science…
REG grant for Kelly Yotebieng
Kelly Yotebieng has been informed that her proposal, “The City from the perspective of urban refugees in Yaoundé, Cameroon,” has been recommended for funding by the National Science Foundation…