Todd Crane
Summer 2007 WAS*IS
 Being a native of Indiana, I did my undergraduate degree at Indiana University, graduating with a BA in anthropology and certificates in journalism and African studies. After graduating, I worked an organic farm, a daily newspaper, a garden center, a weekly newspaper and I did a fair bit of travel and backpacking. Then I decided to go back to school. I have recently completed my PhD in anthropology at the University of Georgia. I did my dissertation research in the West African nation of Mali, looking at farmers' and herders' local ecological knowledge and changes in their subsistence adaptations under the condition of environmental change.
I am currently working as a post-doc in the Southeast Climate Consortium, a NOAA-funded Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments project, examining the opportunities and constraints around farmers' use of seasonal climate forecasts for risk management. While this may sound like a far cry from my work in Mali, the two projects are united by my interest in human adaptation to climate variation and climate change, as well as connections between scientific research and rural resource management, particularly in the sphere of agriculture.
While my interests have thus far been oriented more towards climate than weather, learning more about meteorological forecasting can only advance my overall understanding. On the flip side, I hope to contribute my knowledge of social processes and structures that shape people's ability to process, absorb and use information such as meteorology offers.
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