Exploring Wellbeing through Movement, Social Interactions, and Nature Exposure
Abstract
How can exposure to nature increase wellbeing across different measures of health? Join us for a talk by Professor Somayeh Dodge from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Dodge’s research focuses on developing data-driven methods to study movement behavior in dynamic human and ecological systems.
Speaker Information
Somayeh Dodge is an Associate Professor of Spatial Data Science and serves as a Co-Associate Director of the Center for Spatial Studies and Data Science in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD in Geography with a specialization in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2011. Her research focuses on developing data analytics, knowledge discovery, modeling, and visualization techniques to study movement behavior in dynamic human and ecological systems. She is a recipient of the 2021 CAREER award from the U.S. Science National Foundation (NSF), and the 2022 Emerging Scholar Award of the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group of the American Associations of Geographers (AAG).
