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Public Talks
A selection of public lectures and research talks that I've given over the years.
2025 Savanna Science Network Meeting08 March 2025 | Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa
At this year's meeting, I detailed my methods of mapping waterholes on a savanna landscape that is drying under climate change: "The present and future of ephemeral freshwater in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area". [link] 
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2024 Cornell DNRE Seminar
08 October 2024 | Ithaca, New York, USA
Here, I cover my project mapping waterholes in KAZA, how elephants respond, and end with a discussion on decolonization and research ethics: "Water for elephants: Mapping ephemeral waterholes to inform models of African savanna elephant movements". [link] 
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2024 savanna science network meeting07 March 2024 | Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa
Learn more about my research on savanna elephant movements through this 15min talk, covering the first six months of my postdoc: "Forecasting savanna elephant movements on a fenced and drying landscape using Agent Based Modeling". |
2023 savanna science network meeting08 March 2023 | Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa
Learn more about my research on antelope population declines in Kruger over thirty years through this 15min talk: "Declines in rare antelope populations since the 1980s partially explained by climate drivers". |
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2022 Going beyond land acknowledgement09 April 2022 | Durham, North Carolina, USA
As part of a day-long symposium ("People and Nature") on environmental justice, ethnoecology, and place-based research in April 2022, I presented the symposium's land acknowledgement. Read more about this topic here. |
