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International Scholarship Symposium

Elizabeth Gardiner is presenting her research on land grabs in Burkina Faso at the inaugural International Scholarship Symposium organized by the International Affairs Faculty Council. The…

Research Seminars Spring 2015

Presentation at my alma mater

I presented my research on how mobile pastoralists manage common-pool grazing resources in the Logone Floodplain in a research seminar on February 2, 2015, at my alma mater: Leiden University…

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Anthropology and Environment Profile Photo Winner

Sarah Laborde, Postdoctoral Researcher in the MORSL lab is the 2014 Profile Picture Winner of the Anthropology and Environment Society. Sarah is working with an interdisciplinary team on the…
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Special Feature in Ecology and Society

The special feature on Conceptual, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Challenges in Studying and Applying Indigenous Knowledge has been published in Ecology and Society. The special feature…

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Muddying the Waters

Our paper Muddying the Waters: A New Area of Concern for Drinking Water Contamination in Cameroon has been published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (10.…

Fish caught in flood plain

Fieldwork in the Floodplain

Our Cameroonian MORSL research team in is currently conducting fieldwork in the Logone Floodplain, collecting data for the social, fishery, and hydraulic models that we are developing. 

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The governance of rangelands

Our article Rangeland Governance in an Open System: Protecting Transhumance Corridors in the Far North Province of Cameroon has been reprinted in an edited volume on the Governance of Rangelands…

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Overgrazing narratives

Last week I wrote a letter to editor of the NRC, a daily newspaper in the Netherlands, in response to an article in the Science Section that described a hydrological model of atmospheric moisture…

Postdoctoral Researcher Alfonso Fernández

MORSL Postdoctoral Researcher Alfonso Fernández

Alfonso Fernández is a Physical Geographer with interests in hydroclimatic sciences. He obtained a Bachelor in Geography at the Universidad de Chile, and a Masters in Sciences (Freshwater…