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IASC 2020 Web Conference on African Commons
My presentation Pastoralists’ Governance of Common-Pool Resources: Working toward a Synthesis for the IASC 2020 Web Conference on African Commons is available online. It is work in progress…
Big Game Theory 2020
Our awesome team just completed our second Big Game Theory summer camp for middle schoolers at the PAST Foundation. The goal of the Big Game Theory camp is to train campers to use a systems…
Paper in Human Ecology
Our paper on Contemporary pastoralism in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman is out in the journal Human Ecology. It is one of the papers coming forth out of Lawrence Ball's dissertation research.
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Paper in Journal of Hydrology
Our paper on the hydraulic impact of fish canals is out in the Journal of Hydrology. The lead author is Apoorva Shastry, a former graduate student from our MORSL team.
Shastry,…
Chelsea Hunter awarded an NSF REG grant
Offered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Research Experience for Graduates (REG) grant provides supplemental funding to support the cost of a “Cultural Anthropology student’…
Paper in Human Ecology
Our paper Comparative Study of Territoriality across Forager Societies just came out in Human Ecology.
Moritz, Mark, Shane Scaggs, Craig Shapiro, Sarah Hinkelman. 2020 Comparative Study of…
Thesiger-Oman International Fellowship
Our research team was awarded a Thesiger-Oman International Fellowship by the Royal Geographical Society to study grazing pressure in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman. The team consists of …
Paper in Journal of Arid Environments
Our paper, Trends and spatial patterns of 20th century temperature, rainfall and PET in the semi-arid Logone River basin, Sub-Saharan Africa, has been published in the Journal of Arid…
From a microscope to the Middle East
Annalee Sekulić started volunteering for the Ancient Socioecological Systems in Oman (ASOM) project as a sophomore, and soon after she found herself traveling to the Arabian Peninsula to do…