{"id":586,"date":"2025-08-25T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rumbosdeleonidas.net\/?p=586"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:13:15","slug":"wolfhowl-new-research-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumbosdeleonidas.net\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"WolfHowl: new research project"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"586\" class=\"elementor elementor-586\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7754ead e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7754ead\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbb98fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dbb98fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 15-07-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0077b3; font-size: 30px; background-color: #faf7f5;\">Through the NWO Open Competition, the NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SGW) domain aims to offer researchers the opportunity to conduct research on a topic of their own choosing, without thematic restrictions. In the first round of the SGW Open Competition XS, <a href=\"https:\/\/vu.nl\/en\/news\/2025\/seven-vu-researchers-receive-sgw-xs-grant-for-innovative-projects\">seven researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<\/a> were awarded a grant. I was one of them with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwo.nl\/en\/projects\/wijwp70083\">WolfHowl<\/a>:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder; color: #333333; background-color: #faf7f5;\">WolfHowl: Howling with the Wolves. Traditional Ecological Knowledge Practices as Disaster Mitigation Strategies<br style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; background-color: #faf7f5;\">Social and Cultural Anthropologist\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"box-sizing: inherit; background-color: #faf7f5; text-decoration-line: underline; color: var(--brand-color,#0077b3);\" href=\"https:\/\/vu.nl\/en\/research\/scientists\/leonidas-oikonomakis\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" data-new-window=\"true\">Leonidas Oikonomakis<\/a><br style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; background-color: #faf7f5;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333; background-color: #faf7f5;\">Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) consists of local practices used to address environmental problems, including disaster prevention. As part of &#8220;rewilding Europe,&#8221; the wolf has returned to the continent\u2014though not without conflicts involving shepherds, hunters, and NGOs. The preventive value of TEK remains underexplored, especially the practice of mimicking wolf howls to track wolf populations. This project studies that practice in Halkidiki, Greece, and its potential as a disaster mitigation strategy, contributing to the growing TEK bibliography.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #333333; background-color: #faf7f5;\">XS projects have a maximum duration of one year and can therefore quickly contribute to scientific insights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>WolfHowl updates will be -irregularly &#8211; published <a href=\"https:\/\/rumbosdeleonidas.net\/?page_id=557\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nofuss_excerpt\"><p>\u00a0 Through the NWO Open<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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