Alex Zvoleff


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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Education

M.A. Climate and Society, Columbia University, 2008.
B.S. Earth Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 2006.

Interests

Current Work

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.

Code

Below are several projects I am currently working on. Code for past projects is available on request.

ChitwanABM

An agent-based model of the western Chitwan Valley, Nepal, coded in Python.

Project page

Population synthesis

Code for the synthesis of individual-level datasets.

Project page

CV

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Past Projects

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.