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Dataset published in Movebank
I published the first two datasets from my CAREER project in the Movebank Data Repository. The two data packages have their own DOI and citation:
Moritz M (2018) Data from: Simulating the…
Film in Social Waters
Mouadjamou Ahmadou and Sarah Laborde published their film Fishing canals of the Logone Floodplain in Cameroon in a special issue on Social Water of the online magazine Voices. Here is a…

OIA Photography Competition
My photo Cattle in Dust Storm won 3rd place in the category Places in the 2017 OIA photography competition. The picture was taken during a dust storm that colored everything yellow. I was…

Anthropology of Human - Environment Dynamics at Ohio State
We are developing a new track in anthropology at the Ohio State University, tentatively titled Human-Environment Learning Lab and are encouraging outstanding undergraduates and masters students to…
Story Map of Inland Fisheries
The research of our MORSL project is featured in a story map of Global Inland Fisheries which features a series of case studies of inlnd fisheres from around the globe. Here is the…

SAR seminar
We just wrapped up our Research Team Seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) to discuss what explains the sustainability of open property regimes. Here is the abstract. The goal of the…

Award for DECML student Silas
Sevidzem Silas Lendzele, one of the DECML graduate students from Cameroon, won the prize for Best Poster from an FMD-Endemic Region at the recent Global FMD Research Alliance conference. He…

Why blaming ivory poaching on Boko Haram isn’t helpful
Together with Alice Kelly Pennaz, Mouadjamou Ahmadou, and Paul Scholte, I published a new piece in The Conversation titled Why blaming ivory poaching on Boko Haram isn’t helpful. It is a longer…

USFWS workshop
I presented a paper on the Impacts of Boko Haram on transhumance in the Far North Region of Cameroon for a USFWS workshop on Transhumant Pastoralism in Africa's Sudano-Sahel.