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Catherine Dibble

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Geography Department, University of Maryland

Educational Background

University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Ph.D., 2001

University of Rochester, Economic Theory, M.A., 1983

University of Rochester, Economics, with High Distinction, B.A., 1981

Email: cdibble@geog.umd.edu

Webpages:

http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Dibble.html

Keywords:

Scale-free Geographic Small-world Networks

Economic Geography and Spatial Eocnomics

Epidemiology Among Highly-Mobile Populations

GeoGraph Computational Laboratories

Spatial Evolutionary Algorithms, Relevance Filters

Statement of Interests:

Dr. Dibble uses agent-based computational laboratories to model processes such as long-run regional development and land-use changes, epidemics among highly mobile populations, and the effects of spatial technology networks on the evolution of inequality. She has served on the International Steering Committee for the GeoComputation Conference Series since its inception in 1996, and is an expert at designing spatial evolutionary algorithms and relevance filters.

Agenda/Plans:

Agent-based models of epidemics among highly-mobile populations on network landscapes.

The effects of spatial structure on human processes, of human processes on spatial structures, and the co-evolution of the two.

Deforestation, land-use change, epidemiology, and sustainable development in Africa.

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