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NSF RAPID grant
An NSF RAPID is supporting our research on the impact of refugee pastoralists from Nigeria on the pastoral ecosystem in the Logone Floodplain of Cameroon. Here is the summary from the NSF website…
COMPAS photo contest
A MORSL fieldwork photo by our postdoctoral researcher Sarah Laborde has won first prize in the COMPAS Sustainability Photo Contest.
Ambio paper
Our paper Meta-studies in Land Use Science: Current Coverage and Prospects came out in Ambio. The paper came out of a workshop at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC…
Poster Presentation Brandon Mohr
Brandon Mohr, one of our undergraduate researchers in the MORSL lab, presented the findings of his study of depressions in the Logone Floodplain at the Fall Student Poster Forum, September 17,…
DECML featured on Discovery Themes website
Ohio State researchers from veterinary medicine, geography, anthropology, environmental sciences and public health are using statistics and computer simulations, along with field research, to…
NSF EAGER grant
Our research team received an EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to examine the impact of the domestic cycle of households on the demography of family herds and ultimately on…
Paper in PLoS ONE
Our paper examining spatial and temporal characteristics of pastoral mobility has been published in PLoS ONE. Ningchuan Xiao, Shanshan Cai, Mark Moritz, Rebecca Garabed, Laura Pomeroy. 2015…
Chris Brown awarded a Mershon Center Student Research Grant
Congratulations to Chris for his award of a Mershon Center Student Research Grant. This funding will support his dissertation research on emergent forms of citizenship in Kumasi, Ghana. In…
Agent-Based Model published at OpenABM
We have published the agent-based model that we used in our paper for Ecological Modelling at OpenABM. OpenABM is a node in the CoMSES Network, providing a growing collection of tutorials and FAQs…