May 5-7th 2019 UC Davis’ Political Ecology Lab held its first ever research and writing retreat at Bodega Marine Lab. The aim of the retreat was to continue cementing our intercampus network by bringing together graduate students and faculty from across campus to think, write, organize and develop new projects around intersecting topics in political ecology. The retreat featured a facilitated discussion on our converging and diverging definitions of political ecology, a panel on interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to political ecology and graduate student breakouts on topics of shared interest as well as individual writing time and planning for next year.