The convergence of climate change, land use-cover change, and the rural-to-urban energy transitions are reshaping the dynamics of food, energy, and water systems across the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, these changes are exacerbated by population growth and shifting economic forces that hinder local and national governments’ ability to implement integrated and sustainable resource and land governance strategies. Our efforts are focused on revealing the dynamics of production and consumption of food, energy, and water resources in sub-Saharan Africa, and using these revelations to develop solutions that can better sustain coupled food, energy, and water systems through improved multi-scale, multi-resource governance.
News and Updates:
CaylorLab work featured in new short film
Mount Kenya is one of the major water towers in Kenya, but with an increase in population and water demand, the pressure on this scare commodity has been on ...
Summer at Mpala: water use and agriculture
This summer Drew Gower traveled to Kenya for a three-week mission wrapping up one project and launching another.
Marcus Spiegel receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Marcus Spiegel‘s project, Modeling Agricultural Expansion in Zambia to Predict and Minimize Tradeoffs has been selected for support from the Smith-Newton Sch...
Drew Gower receives EPA STAR Fellowship
Drew Gower just received a Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship for Graduate Environmental Study awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Stephanie Debats receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Stephanie Debats just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Two New Grants Awarded
We are very happy to have been awarded new grants from both NSF and NASA!
Anticipating the ecological impacts of agricultural adaptation to climate change
Global change research in the fields of ecology and conservation biology primarily focuses on how changing climatic variables will directly impact species an...
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Workshop
Stephanie Debats and Drew Gower attended a modeling workshop series through SESYNC in Annapolis, Maryland.
First International Conference on Global Food Security
Stephanie just came back from the 1st Global Food Security Conference, held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands from Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd.
Stephanie receives PEI-STEP fellowship
Stephanie was just awarded a PEI-STEP fellowship!
Rain gauge and soil moisture probe deployment in Zambia
Last month Stephanie, Diana, and Molly were in Zambia deploying a suite of rain gauges and soil moisture probes as part of our NSF-funded collaboration on cl...
Coupled Natural & Human Systems award from the National Science Foundation
Our group has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation for a new project.
Princeton Global Collaborative Network Fund for Integrated Food Security Research
The Caylor group has received support from the Princeton Global Collaborative Network Fund to develop an integrated approach to investigating climate change ...
NSF grant awarded for resilience research in Zambia
Our group is beginning a new research program regarding links between climate variability, social decision making, and resilience in subsistence dryland agri...
2008 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
Kelly will serve as the moderator of a panel discussion on “Eco-friendly Development” in Africa and the tradeoffs that exist between development and conserv...
Article in New Phytologist
Julianno Sambatti and Kelly published an article in New Phytologist.
WAVES Lab Postdoctoral Positions Available
The WAVES Lab has two postdoctoral research associate positions available starting in the fall of 2018.
WAVES Lab researchers participate in Kenyan National Science Week Exhibition
WAVES Lab researchers working at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya were participants in the 6th Annual National Science Week Exhibition at the KICC, in Nair...
Article published in Environmental Research Letters
A new article was published in Environmental Research Letters by researchers from the CaylorLab, the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and the National S...
Article published in Remote Sensing of Environment
A new article was published by the Stephanie Debats and members of the CaylorLab in Remote Sensing of Environment.
Arable featured in PAW
The Caylor Lab and Arable were recently featured in an article from the Princeton Alumni Weekly Magazine.
Two New Grants Awarded
We are very happy to have been awarded new grants from both NSF and NASA!
Nature Comment Published
“Climate change must not blow conservation off course”, by Morgan Tingley, Lyndon, and David Wilcove was published in the comment section of this week’s Natu...
Article published in Global Change Biology
“Projected climate impacts to South African maize and wheat production in 2055: A comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches”, written by Ly...