Geography News and Events
- Grad Student Cooper to attend Pacific Summer Institute
- Grad Po-Yi Awarded 2009 Postgraduate Research Summer School
- Grads Brottem and Limburg Awarded Fullbright Scholarships
- Grad Po-Yi Awarded Pre-dissertation Grant from WAGE
- Interested in Fall 2009 Geography TA positions?
- Undergraduate Symposium in Celebration of the "Year of the Riverway"
- Grads Weng and Liesch receive 2009-2010 Whitbeck Award
- 8th Annual Geography Student Symposium
- Grads Huffman and Coakley sweep National Geographic Student Map Contest
Graduate Student Research
Leif Brottem – Farmer-herder conflict, environmental change, and institutional response in Mali
My dissertation research focuses on how migratory Fulani herdsmen secure access to resources during their dry season migration. I am doing this by studying the changing nature of farmer-herder conflict in Mali’s western region. This type of project requires a mix of methods including focus groups, semi-structured household interviews, archival research, spatial analysis and remote sensing. I enjoy studying herd mobility as I feel it is a quintessential topic of geographic inquiry: it includes social as well as biophysical variables that interact at multiple spatio-temporal scales. Read more.