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Welcome to the PEAR lab, focusing on the political economy of agriculture and rural development. The lab brings together faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates with an interest in the comparative study of rural development, focusing on historical, geospatial and survey-based data collection...

I am a project scientist in the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at the University of California Merced. I earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Washington State University in 2010 and also have degrees in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Since 2011, I have been working with climatologist Dr. John...