Experiencing Drought in the Grasslands of the American West

Research Project Results


Peer-Reviewed Articles

Straub, A.M., Vadjunec, J.M., Fagin, T.D. Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP). Human Ecology. 2025. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10745-025-00565-1. Full text available here

 

Vadjunec, J.M., Fagin, T.D., Hinsdale, L.M., Carrasco Galvan, G.B., and Baum, K.A. 2024. Deeper Engagement with Material and Non-Material Aspects of Water in Land System Science: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Land, 13, 2095. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13122095. Full text available here.

 

Fagin, T.D., Vadjunec, J.M., Boardman, A.L., and Hinsdale, L.M. 2024. Use of Participatory sUAS in Resilient Socioecological Systems (SES) Research: A Review and Case Study from the Southern Great Plains, USA. Drones, 8, 223. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8060223. Full text available here.

 

Carrasco Galvan, G.B., Vadjunec, J.M., and Fagin, T.D. 2024. Lessons from the Archives: Understanding Historical Agricultural Change in the Southern Great Plains. Land, 13, 196. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13020196. Full text available here.

 

Vadjunec, J.M, Colston, N.M., Fagin, T.D, Boardman, A.L. and Birchler, B. 2022. Fostering Resilience and Adaptation to Drought in the Southern High Plains: Using Participatory Methods for More Robust Citizen Science. Sustainability. 14(3), 1813, doi.org/10.3390/su14031813. Full text available here.

 

Vadjunec, J.M, Boardman, A., Fagin, T.D, Larson, M., Kedron, P. and Birchler, B. 2021. Footprints from the Dust Bowl: Using Historical Geographic Information Systems to Explore Land and Resource Access, Use, and Survivability in "No Man’s Land," Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1867497. Full text available here.

 

Vadjunec, J.M. 2019. A Place for Serendipitous Mistakes? Selling Mixed Methods Fieldwork to Students in a Digital Age. Geographical Review. June 2019, special issue on Fieldwork in Geography. DOI: 10.1111/gere.12368. Full text available here.

 

Vadjunec, J.M., A.E. Frazier, P. Kedron, T.D. Fagin, and Y. Zhao. 2018. A land systems science framework for bridging land system architecture and Landscape Ecology: A case study from the Southern Great Plains. Land. 7(1), 27, DOI:10.3390/land7010027. Full text available here.

 

Wenger, K., J.M. Vadjunec, and T.D. Fagin. 2017. Groundwater governance and the growth of center pivot irrigation in Cimarron County, OK and Union County, NM: Implications for community vulnerability to drought. Water. 9(1), 39, DOI:10.3390/w9010039. Full text available here.

 

Fagin, T.D., J.M. Vadjunec, N.M. Colston, K. Wegner, and A. Graham. 2016. Land tenure and landscape change: a comparison of public-private lands in the southern High Plains. Ecological Processes. 5(12). DOI: 10.1186/s13717-016-0056-2. Full text available here.

 

Vadjunec, J.M., C. Radel, B.L. Turner II. 2016. Introduction: The Continued Importance of Smallhoders Today. Land. 5(4), 34. DOI:10.3390/land5040034. Full text available here.

 

Colston, N., J.M. Vadjunec, and T. Wakeford. 2015. Exploring the entry points for citizen science in urban sustainability initiatives. Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability: 17: 66-71. Full text available here.


Other Project Related Literature

Boardman, A.L. 2020. The Next Generation of Land System Science: Integrating Meso-Scale Analysis and UAS Remote Sensing in Changing PLant Communities of the United States' Southern Great Plains. Master's Thesis. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Full text available here.

 

Vadjunec, J.M. 2016. How Woody Guthrie can help us fight for science. Nature: 540: 485. Full text available here.

 

Wenger, K. 2011. Land Change and Vulnerability to Drought: Impact and Growth of Center Pivot Irrigation in Union County, NM and Cimarron County, OK. Master's Thesis. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Full text available here.


Edited Special Issues

Chaging Land Use, Changing Livelihoods

Land (ISSN 2073-445X)

Guest Editor

Dr. Claudia A. Radel

Department of Environment & Society, Utah State University

Guest Editor

Dr. Jacqueline M. Vadjunec

Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University

Full issue available here.

 

Linking Land Architecture and Landscape Ecology for Land Systems Science

Journal of Land Use Science (ISSN 1747423X)

Guest Editor

Dr. Amy E. Frazier

School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University

Guest Editor

Dr. Jacqueline M. Vadjunec

Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University

Guest Editor

Dr. Peter Kedron

School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University

Guest Editor

Dr. Todd Fagin

Oklahoma Biological Survey, University of Oklahoma

Full issue available here.

 

Water in Land System Science

Land (ISSN 2073-445X)

Guest Editor

Dr. Jacqueline M. Vadjunec

Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University

Guest Editor

Dr. Todd Fagin

Oklahoma Biological Survey, University of Oklahoma

Guest Editor

Dr. Thomas Lavanchy

Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University

Guest Editor

Dr. Kate Zeigler

Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University

Guest Editor

Dr. Bruce Hoagland

Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma

Full issue available here.