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Presentation at SESYNC workshop

At the SESYNC Boundary Spanning conference I presented the preliminary synthesis of our MORSL project in a poster titled Synthesizing data, concepts, and models in interdisciplinary research…

Critical transition from pastoralism to ranching

Nikolaus Schareika and I presented our paper on Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa at the Workshop Land deals and their consequences in the Global South at the Max…

Le parc est une jungle

Interview with Mouazamou Ahmadou, collaborator from the University of Maroua, in newspaper

on insecurity in and around the National Park of Bouba Ndjidda in Cameroon.

Paper in Human Ecology

New paper in Human Ecology by Sarah Laborde et al. on the interplay of top-down planning and adaptive self-organization in an African floodplain. Here is the abstract: Natural floodplains are…

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Pallavi Oruganti, a former undergraduate in anthropology, published her undergraduate thesis in the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife. The article is titled Hunters’ knowledge, attitudes, and…

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:

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…