My interests include relating geographic events and patterns through time and space. This includes quantitatively modeling urban growth as a diffusing spatial process. This may be applied to many aspects of urban life: land use, air pollution, crime, public health, and how all these interact with environment. Some of my publications and research grants have involved digital elevation models, environmental conservation, GIS, web-based GIS, urban growth, urban sprawl, and management of urban growth. Recent work includes developing a urban growth simulator, an environmental pollution simulator, and a urban crime simulator. Currently, my team is developing simulator that uses agent-based models to simulate how neighborhoods develop disparities in public health.

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