News
Voices of Excellence podcast
I enjoyed my conversation with David Staley about my research on pastoralists and common-pool resources on the podcast Voices of Excellence, which is available on Soundcloud and iTunes.
Strategic Retreat
Our paper Conservation overstretch and long-term decline of wildlife and tourism in the Central African savannas was published in Conservation Biology. Here is a short news item from Ohio State…
MORSL data publication
I have now also started publishing the data from our Modeling Regime Shifts in the Logone floodplain (MORSL), which was supported by the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH)…
Visualization of herd tracking data
Very excited to see that Paulo van Breugel is using the herd tracking data that we published in the Movebank data repository for educational purposes, including how to create animated maps. The…
Senior Affiliate of the Drake Institute
I have joined thirty-two other buckeyes as Drake Institute Affiliates for the 2021-22 academic year. The Affiliate Program identifies and recognizes faculty, administrators, and staff dedicated to…
Training Wicked Scientists
Our paper Training wicked scientists for a world of wicked problems is out in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Here is the abstract: Humanity faces a number of wicked problems, from…
Data Science for Women Summer Camp
On Thursday 15 July, Daniel Peart, Chelsea Hunter, Ian Hamilton, and Mark Moritz led a workshop on agent-based modeling using NetLogo for the 2021 Data Science for Women Summer Camp organized by…
GRO Academy
Twenty-one researchers have been named to the first cohort for the Growing Research Opportunities (GRO) Academy (and I am part of that cohort!). The cohort will engage in educational sessions led…
SESYNC workshop report
We have published the report of our first virtual SESYNC workshop on Synthesizing Research on Pastoral Governance of Common-Pool Resources. The report summarizes the discussions…