2025 Savanna Science Network Meeting

08 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 savanna science network meeting

07 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".
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2022 GradX ted talk​

21 April 2022  |  Durham, North Carolina, USA
I was thrilled to present my research to a general audience of friends and family for the Graduate School's annual TED-style GradX event: "How elephants interact with a seasonally-fluxing landscape"
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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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2023 savanna science network meeting

08 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 acknowledgement

09 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.
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