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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 particular…
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…
Paper in Ecological Modelling
Our paper Simple Movement Rules result in Ideal Free Distribution of Mobile Pastoralists has been published online first in the journal Ecological Modelling. The paper is available through the…
Herding contracts and pastoral mobility
Our paper Herding Contracts and Pastoral Mobility in the Far North Region of Cameroon has been published in Human Ecology. Here is the abstract: In the last four decades there has been a shift in…
NIAS seminar
I led a NIAS seminar on March 12, 2015, on modeling a complex adaptive system, in which I focused on the methodology of building simple models of complex systems. Here is the abstract: …
One Year, Two Plains
One Year, Two Plains is a film by Mouazamou Ahmadou and Albert K. Drent (2015), produced by the Visual Anthropology Laboratory at the University of Maroua, published by Columbus, Ohio: Knowledge…