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​Don, along with friends and long-time collaborators, Profas. Cornélia Eckert and Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha, co-edited the most recent issue of Horizontes Antropológicos. The topic is on Anthropology and Environmental Crises and contains contributions of authors from across the Americas. 
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​Victor won a competition for best book from  A Arte das Palavras Publishers in Brazil, and will have his book published in October of this year!

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Don and multiple partners within UGA, Vanderbilt University, Oakridge Associated Universities, Southern University of New Orleans, and the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice were recently awarded an NSF Planning grant "Collaborative Research and Education Center for Transformative Water Solutions". This one year grant will create the basis for a water center proposal that centers equity and justice in drinking water,  wastewater, and stormwater solutions. We will kickoff with an opening workshop in October, 2023. 

Cydney is a co-author on a publication now out in Climatic Change. "Migration as adaptation to freshwater and inland hydroclimatic changes? A meta-review of existing evidence" is a meta-review of migration as an adaptation to freshwater and inland water-related climate changes. The article draws on work that they did for Chapter 4 of the 2022 IPCC report. 
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Don and UGA  colleague Marshall Shepherd are part of a team awarded a NOAA grant focused on improving use and outcomes of using climate forecasting information "Incorporating Principles of Environmental Justice into Forecast Informed Reservoir 
Operations, a Climate and Flood Adaptation Strategy". The team is led by Tom Corringham at the Scripps Institute and UCSD. The work is focused on potential socioeconomic benefits of FIRO to frontline communities and how such benefits might be realized. The ultimate outcome of this project is to integrate assessment of the impacts of FIRO on frontline communities by developing a methodology that can be applied at different stages of the FIRO process that could be implemented nationally. 

​Victor had a great defense and has now earned his MSc from UGA! Congratulations Victor! "Applied Geospatial Data Science for and Integrative Analysis of the Climate of Northeast Brazil". He is heading back to his native Cairiri - we will miss you Victor.

​Congratulations to John as a newly minted PhD! John successfully defended his dissertation "When the rain falls: Adaptation to compound disasters and climate unpredictability in natural resource dependent communities of rural Haiti". John now resides in Ft. Collins, CO with his growing family and works as the Socioeconomic Monitoring Coordinator for the U.S. National Park Service. Have fun teaching your kids whitewater rafting - we will miss you at the HECLab!

Congratulations, Kaila, on your recently published manuscript "Trauma ≠ Identity"! You can read Kaila's piece in UGA's The Classic Journal