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California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea

This is a collection of community science in the Salton Sea in California Desert Communities.

California Desert Communities: Lithium Valley

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California Desert Communities: Infrastructure

This is a collection of infrastructure in California Desert Communities.

California Desert Communities: Mural Country

This is a collection of mural country in California Desert Communities.

California Desert Communities: Organizations and Agencies

This is a collection of organizations and agencies in California Desert Communities.

California Desert Communites: Concepts in Play

This is a collection of concepts in play in California Desert Communities.

California Desert Communities: EcoGovLab in the Field

This is a collection of EcoGovLab in the field in California Desert Communities.

California Desert Communities: Roles and Careers in Comite Civico de Valle

This is a collection on roles and careers in Comite Civico de Valle in California Desert Communities.

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Bruze Nizeye and Sara Stulac both work with Partners in Health (founded by Paul Farmer) while Salmaan Keshavjee is a physician and researcher whose expertise is in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and global health. Farmer's and Keshavjee's anthropological research in particular is important to emergency response because it would allow for improved preparation of treatment to those communities. Their work in seeing the social causes of health epidemics would also allow for better prevention of disasters.