Megan Baumann has authored a new article in the Journal of Peasant Studies on “Examining land rental market’s linkages to land and water control in Colombia’s irrigation megaprojects: integrating the political economy of agrarian change and the political ecology of vulnerability” and has also lead-authored a forthcoming article on “Linkages of suspended infrastructure, contestation and social-environmental and political-ecological unevenness: Colombia’s Tolima Triangle irrigation megaproject” that is appearing in the Journal of Latin American Geography in a special issue on Infrastructure in Latin America. Yooinn Hong lead-authored an article on “Useful plants from the wild to home gardens: An analysis of home garden ethnobotany in contexts of habitat conversion and land use change in Jeju, South Korea” in the Journal of Ethnobiology. Both these new articles draw from their dissertation research as GeoSyntheSES lab members.

Karl Zimmerer is on sabbatical research leave during 2022-2023 as a fellow of the MAK’IT Program (Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions) at the University of Montpellier, working with teams of faculty and students at CEFE in the CNRS and ARCAD in CIRAD. With collaborators in Spain, Karl has published a new article in Agricultural Systems.

Ramzi Tubbeh was awarded a postdoc for one year in the Geo-SyntheSES Lab for the period of late January 2022-2023, following defense of his dissertation on “Hydraulic infrastructure development, irrigation governance, and climate change adaptation in the engineered Colca-Siguas watershed, Peru” in December 2021.

Zach Goldberg is currently undertaking Ph.D fieldwork research in Maryland and Pennsylvania for his dissertation project on “The Land Resources-Justice Nexus: Utility-Scale Solar Energy Development on Farmland in the Mid-Atlantic United States.”