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SDSU/UCSB Joint Doctoral Student
San Diego State University Department of Geography 5500 Campanile Dr. San Diego, CA 92182-4493 Phone: 619-594-8030 Fax: 619-594-4938 Email: azvoleff@mail.sdsu.edu |
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M.A. Climate and Society, Columbia University, 2008.
B.S. Earth Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 2006.
I am working with Dr. Li An on an NSF PIRE project exploring human-environment interactions in the Western Chitwan Valley, Nepal. In order to better incorporate feedbacks between fertility and environmental change, we are constructing an agent-based model of population at the individual and household level, community context, and land use. Future research using a spatially explicit agent-based model will allow a better representation of spatial variations in the determinants of land use, as well as of the spatial distribution of land use change, which may be an important determinant of habitat quality in the forest areas surrounding the population.
Below are several projects I am currently working on. Code for past projects is available on request.
An agent-based model of the western Chitwan Valley, Nepal, coded in Python.
Code for the synthesis of individual-level datasets.
Studied the impact of population distribution in rural areas on the costs of infrastructure investment. With Vijay Modi of Columbia University.
Constructed an agent-based model examining dynamics of coupled human-climate system over long timescales. With Brad Werner of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.