Michael Lonneman
My dissertation research models agricultural land use decision-making and investigates how farmers manage soil resources for both short-term production requirements and long-term productivity. I explore how these decisions influence both long-term changes in agricultural livelihoods and the patterns and process of disturbances in soils, including soil movement and the loss of fertility. My research focuses on the United States Piedmont region, 1750 - 1930.
Research Interests:
Current Research in Sumter National Forest, SC |
Contact MichaelEmail: mclonn01@uga.edu
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The specific location of my fieldwork is in a section of the Sumter National Forest in Union County, South Carolina. It is part of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory, a NSF-funded project whose objective is to understand how present-day soil processes are the product of human land use legacies that directly affected hydrological, geomorphological, and biological systems.
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Additional photos taken by the staff of the U.S. Forest Service and Calhoun Experimental Forest of the Sumter National Forest and adjacent lands in South Carolina are publicly available via the Open ICPSR repository: http://doi.org/10.3886/E100276V2 .
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