Trained as a geographer and political ecologist, Heidi Hausermann, PhD, uses interdisciplinary approaches and mixed methods to understand landscape change, disease dynamics, contamination, and food systems. Current projects examine the local fate of mercury vaporized from small-scale gold mining in Ghana and edible insects and coffee agroecosystems in Veracruz, Mexico.

Heidi’s lab has long-term international collaborations with faculty at University of Mines and Technology (Ghana), Universidad Veracruzana (Veracruz, México), Instituto de Ecología (INECOL, Veracruz, México), and Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP). Heidi also works closely with rural communities in the
development and implementation of research objectives.