Multi-species ethnography is a valuable qualitative methodology for revealing the mutual, iterative influences of animals, plants and people on one another, as each responds to environmental change. Through these entanglements, we can track how trajectories of adaptation unfold. This study…
Paid Summer Internship: Culturally Important Plants on the Georgia Coast We are seeking an undergraduate student or recent graduate to assist with the development and digital publication of an Identification Guide for Culturally Important Plant Species on the Georgia Coast.…
Thank you for your interest in this topic! At UGA, the ICON PhD Program endeavors to train the next generation of sustainability and conservation scientists and practitioners with the competencies needed to work effectively on teams that address wicked problems.…
This synthesis of trends in livelihood adaptation in a Kenyan pastoralist community focused on two themes, which interact to influence governance of common pool resources: (1) the broader phenomenon of commodity frontiers, and (2) social cohesion within communities. Gabriele Volpato,…
Just had to share this little gem I ran across… From Gigerenzer, G. (2004). “Fast and frugal heuristics: The tools of bounded rationality.” Blackwell handbook of judgment and decision making: 62-88. A decision theorist … was struggling whether to…
These two papers are stellar examples of Ryan’s discipline-linking dissertation research. Congratulations, Ryan! Unks, R., E. G. King, L. A. German, N. P. Wachira and D. R. Nelson 2019. Unevenness in scale mismatches: institutional change, pastoralist livelihoods, and herding ecology…
Ryan had his PhD defense in November 2017, turned in his dissertation a few weeks later, took barely a week or so of much needed rest in Oregon, then headed to France to begin his Postdoc at the University of…
Understanding the past, present, and future fate of forests on Georgia’s barrier islands is motivating a lot of work in our lab these days…. Together with Warnell faculty colleagues Nate Nibbelink and Clint Moore, we received 4 years of funding…
Liz Guinessey, 3rd year ICON-Ecology PhD student, just received a Fulbright Fellowship to support her innovative dissertation research, investigating ecological and social dimensions of mangrove restoration, Blue Carbon markets, and payments for ecosystem services. Well-deserved, Liz! Congratulations!!!
Based on our long-standing collaboration in Kenya, Trenton and I developed a dynamic hillslope model to explore the effects of land use decisions and future climate variabiity on vegetation in the semi-arid landscapes of Laikipia, Kenya. We look forward to…