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. My field site is located in 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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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2017
Historical land use dynamics in the highly degraded landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Coughlan, Michael R., Donald R. Nelson, Michael Lonneman, and Ashley E. Block (2017): Land 6(2), 32
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
2018
Gone with the witness tree: A reconstruction of historical forest cover change in the South Carolina Piedmont ca 1790-1940 using metes and bounds survey witness trees. Coughlan, M., D.R. Nelson, and M. Lonneman (2018): American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018
2018
Eroded Landscapes: Agricultural and Environmental Change in the United States Piedmont, 1790-1860. Lonneman, Michael C. (2018): MA Thesis, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology
2018
Anthropogenic drivers and the reconstruction of historical forest cover change in the South Carolina Piedmont ca 1790-1940. Nelson, D.R., M.R. Coughlan, and M. Lonneman (2018): American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec 2018
2017
Historical landuse dynamics in the highly degraded landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Coughlan, Michael R., Donald R. Nelson, Michael Lonneman, and Ashley E. Block (2017): Calhoun CZO 2017 Summer Science Meeting, Union, SC, 17-18 May 2017
2017
Continuity and change in the southern Piedmont: A social-ecological perspective on people and their land (1790-1940). Lonneman, M. (2017): Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Santa Fe, NM
2017
Reorganizing land and labor: Exploring agricultural land use change in the postbellum South Carolina Piedmont using an agent-based model. Lonneman, M. (2017): Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2017
From slavery to wage labor: Livelihood change and land use transitions in the US Piedmont, 1850-1880. Lonneman, M. (2017): Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Santa Fe, NM
2017
Land use legacies in the Calhoun CZO: The implications of human behavior for Critical Zone processes. Nelson, Donald R., Daniel D. Richter Jr., Michael Coughlan, Michael Lonneman, Zachary Brecheisen (2017): Calhoun CZO 2017 Summer Science Meeting, Union, SC, 17-18 May 2017
2016
Parcel-level land use change at the Calhoun CZO. Lonneman, M. (2016): Calhoun CZO 2016 Summer Science Meeting, Clinton, SC
2016
Agent-based modeling of land use decision-making and soil erosion. Lonneman, M. (2016): Society for Applied Anthropology conference, Athens, GA
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