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Name: Gragson, Ted
Telephone: 706.542.1460; Fax: 706.542.3998
Email: tgragson@uga.edu
Organization:
Department of Anthropology
University of Georgia
250 Baldwin Hall
Athens, Georgia 30602

Position at Coweeta LTER: Lead Principle Investigator
Specialty: Human Ecology
Habitat: Terrestrial Ecosystems
Organism: Human
Core Area(s): modeling/synthesis, land-use/land-use change, historical ecology, spatially-explicit modeling

Education:
B.A., University of Montana, Anthropology, 1982
M.A., Pennsylvania State University, Anthropology, 1984
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Anthropology, 1989

Appointments:
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 1998-present
Adjunct Faculty of Ecology, University of Georgia, 1992-present
Visiting Associate Professor, Museó Andrés Barbero, Asunción, Paraguay, 2000
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 1992-1998
Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica de Asunción, Paraguay, 1993
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1990-1992

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Gragson, Ted L. 2002. Heuristic Mapping of Frontier Processes Using Fuzzy Set Theory. Field Methods. 14(4):368-389.

Gragson, Ted L., and Ben G. Blount, eds. 1999. Ethnoecology: knowledge, resources and rights. The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA.

Gragson, Ted L. 1998. Potential vs. actual vegetation: human behavior in a landscape medium. Pages 213-231 In William Balée, ed. Advances in historical ecology. Columbia University Press, New York.

Gragson, Ted L. 1997. The Use of underground plant organs and its relation to habitat selection among the Pumé Indians of Venezuela. Economic Botany 51(4):377-384.

Gragson, Ted L., and Frederick V. Payton. 1997. The institutional context of irrigation in the Bajo Yaque del Norte Project, Dominican Republic. Human Organization 56(2):153-157.

Synergistic Activities
Dr. Gragson is active in program governance as well as teaching and mentoring of students in the interdisciplinary Conservation and Sustainable Development master's program at the University of Georgia. He helped develop and serves as co-PI on the ethnographic research training program in the Anthropology Department at the University of Georgia, funded for 5 years and then renewed for another 5 years by NSF.

Gragson has also twice received Fulbright funding to teach and conduct research in Paraguay, which enabled him to make critical contributions to both developing a culture of research among students as well as directing the execution of research activities by non-governmental organizations. His research centers on the decision-making processes linking individuals to their natural and social environments in time and through space. His research interests have lead to collaborations with investigators at six LTER sites using NSF BioComplexity funding, as well as researchers at sites in southern France, western Paraguay, eastern Bolivia, and intermontane Ecuador with funding from various sources.