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Dinko Hanaan Dinko

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Kansanga, M., & Dinko, D. H. (2025). Visualizing the Gendering of Agricultural Mechanization in the Global South: A Review of the Underlying Drivers. Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture, 39-50.

Dinko, D. H., Kansanga, M., Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., & Luginaah, I. (2024). Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood. Land Use Policy, 136, 106962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106962

Dinko, D. H., & Bahati, I. (2023). A Review of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Security and Livelihoods in Semiarid Africa: Cases From Kenya, Malawi, and Ghana. Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice, 1, 107鈥118. https://doi.org/10.1162/crcj_a_00002

Dinko Hanaan Dinko & Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong (2023): Uneven Geographies of the Embodied Effects of Water Insecurity Among Women Irrigators in Northern Ghana, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2231528

M. Darby Dyar

Publication

Ytsma, C., and Dyar, M.D. (2022) Calculations of limits of blank, limits of detection, and limits of quantification for multivariate analyses of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) in geological materials. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 191, 106395.

Steven, C.J., Dyar, MD., McCanta, M.C., Newville, M., and Lanzirotti, A. (2022) The absorption indicatrix as an empirical model to describe anisotropy in x-ray absorption spectra of pyroxenes. American Mineralogist, 107, 654-663. Doi: 10.2138/am-2021-7950.

Leight, C.J., McCanta, M.C., Glotch, T.D., Thomson, B.J., Ye, Cheng, and Dyar, M.D. (2022) Characterization of tephra deposits using VNIR and MIR spectroscopy: A comprehensive terrestrial tephra spectral library. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 273, 112965.

Dyar, M.D., and Ytsma, C.R. (2021) Effect of data set size on geochemical accuracy with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta B, 177, 106073.

Helbert, J., Maturilli, A., Dyar, M.D., and Alemanno, G. (2021) Deriving iron contents from past and future Venus surface spectra with new high temperature laboratory emissivity data. Science Advances, 7, eaba9428.

Wang, A., Yan, Y., Dyar, M.D., Houghton, J.L., Farrell, W.M., Joliff, B.L., McLennan, S.M., Shi, E., and Qu, H. (2020) Amorphization of S, Cl鈥恠alts induced by Martian dust activities. Geophysical Research Letters, 125(12), e2020JE006701.