Congrats to @garimajain.bsky.social on defending her dissertation on the aquaculture transformation in India!

She integrates satellite data, field work & modeling to understand the who/how/where.

Committee: Billie Turner, me, Hallie Eakin, @amyfrazier.bsky.social

#PhDDefense #Geography

2/7 The effect size is substantial. A 1-SD increase in local wealth = a 6.7% drop in cognitive impairment risk. In the poorest 10% of communities, risk is 80% higher than in the wealthiest. Wealth matters more than income. Community wealth matters beyond your personal wealth.

1/7 New research: The wealth of your neighbors may protect your brain. Our new WP finds that higher community wealth is linked to a significantly lower risk of cognitive decline in older adults in the USA Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

#aging #HealthEquity #geography

My PhD students Yilei Yu and Alex Cliff have defended their dissertations, producing outstanding research at the intersection of spatial data science and flooding!

Thanks to committee members @sarameerow.bsky.social (co-advised Alex), Melanie Gall, and Aaron Flores.

#PhD #SpatialDataScience

A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card for the Human Centered podcast. Coming later this year.. @casbsstanford.bsky.social

A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card for the Human Centered podcast. Coming later this year..

This Thursday (March 6) I'll be speaking at the Department of City & Regional Planning at Berkeley about 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 & 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. Reach out if you'd like to attend.

Our approach relies on a first-of-its-kind database combining:
• Century of satellite-based image analysis
• Population patterns
• Economic indicators
• Social mobility data to measure how city structure impacts opportunity
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Cities are celebrated as economic powerhouses - but at what social cost? We studied 100 years of data to understand how urban environments shape three key outcomes:
• Wealth creation
• Income generation
• Economic mobility for poor children
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🚨 New Research: The American Dream is Dying in Big Cities
Cities used to be ladders of opportunity for their residents. Not anymore. Our new paper shows smaller cities & towns now outperform major metros for kids born into poverty.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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Before Devorah Manekin's excellent lecture on nonviolent resistance at @casbsstanford.bsky.social today!

@noamgidron.bsky.social as sharp as ever..

Graduated my first PhD students in Geography!

Dr Siqiao Xie is off to continue his excellent work as an NIH post-doc in spatial population health @cuboulder.bsky.social

Siqiao defended his dissertation @casbsstanford.bsky.social

@arizonastateuni.bsky.social

My bro before this weekend's cup clash

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Already missing the most important day on the calendar - GIS Day!

#30DayMapChallenge #GIS #gischat #GISDay