– Lab Members’ Field Research: Summer 2016 and Ongoing

Summer 2016 was a busy and productive time for field research activities. Yooinn Hong completed the final phase of dissertation fieldwork on agrobiodiversity, home gardens, and economic and agrarian transitions on Jeju Island, Korea; Russell Hedberg finished field research on soil health associated with management practices among certified organic and non-certified ecological growers in the foodshed of New York green markets; Megan Baumann completed fieldwork in Nicaragua for a master’s thesis on citizen science projects for agrobiodiversity and climate change adaptation and their impacts on landscape management and cognition; and Ramzi Tubbeh conducted field research for a master’s thesis on territorial dynamics, forest extraction, and indigenous rights in the Peruvian Amazon. Meanwhile Nathan Clay continued dissertation fieldwork on agrobiodiversity and commercial agriculture in mountain areas of Rwanda, and Karl conducted fieldwork in central Peru on agrobiodiversity and human dietary diversity, nutrition, and health as part of the new research in conjunction with the IIN in Lima (See the item in Notes and News Item on Support Received for GeoSyntheSES Efforts in New Research on Agrobiodiversity, Nutrition, and Health, 2015-2017).