As an environmental anthropologist, he is especially interested in locations of development and change where competing values of nature and resource management practices are at play. Dr. Halvaksz has recently begun a multi-year project examining agricultural changes as a gloss for the sorts of transformations that industrial mining has on land and labor relations and he is also in the early stages of developing research that extends out from his earlier studies both regionally to a wider Pacific and topically to other sites of resource management in South Texas.