Nick Magliocca
Associate Professor
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Magliocca is an associate professor and computational social-ecologist with nine years of professional experience studying human-environment interactions and land-use change through complex systems approaches. He specializes in agent-based modeling but routinely integrates cellular automata, system dynamics, econometrics, spatial statistics, and GIS to link individual land-use decisions to ecosystem functioning and socioeconomic outcomes. His work blends synthesis methods and meta-analysis to scale local case studies into regional and global insights, informing sustainability and hazard mitigation policy. Based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he combines academic leadership at the University of Alabama with a track record of interdisciplinary collaborations at SESYNC and field-informed modeling from coastlines to urban systems. Outside research, he’s an avid fisherman and home cook who brings the same hands-on curiosity to modeling social–ecological systems as he does to family life and outdoor pursuits.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
2006 Bachelor of Science, Environmental Systems; Systems Sciences, 2006 Bachelor of Science, Environmental Systems; Systems Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyEarth Sciences, Earth Sciences at Nicholas School of theUniversity of California, San DiegoUMBCMaster's of Environemtal Management, Ecosystem Science and Conservation, Master's of Environemtal Management, Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke University
Github Skills (4)
python4
machine-learning3
fill2
vim1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nickmags13/NarcoABM
Jan 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
nickmags13/CHALMS_coastal_simple
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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