The Total Cost of Father Desertion
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American Journal of Human Biology 23:755-763 (2011).
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Biodemography and Evolution
Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life-Course in the Bolivian Amazon
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Aggressive Behavior. Volume 38, pages 194-207 (2012)
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Infidelity, jealousy, and wife abuse among Tsimane forager-farmers: testing evolutionary hypotheses of marital conflict
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Evolution and Human Behavior, 33: 438-448. 2012.
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Olivier Deschenes
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research associates
Economics
UCSB
Professor
Olivier Deschenes is a Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Management. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and Research Fellow and Program Director of IZA’s research area in Environment and Labor Markets, in Bonn, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. Deschenes' recent research seeks to determine the potential economic impacts of climate change on human health and agricultural productivity in the U.S. and around the world using historical data. His ongoing research examines the effect of energy prices on labor markets in the context of climate policies, the relationship between extreme temperature and health in India, the impact in utero exposure to extreme weather on prenatal and neonatal infant health, and the effect of temperature and ambient pollution fluctuations on worker productivity.
Grants, Awards and Distinctions:
California Environment Protection Agency, AB 74 Study: Demand and Supply of Fossil Fuels. March 2020-March 2022. $1,500,000 (co-PI with Deshmukh, D. Lea and K. Meng).
National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Grant number R21ES019375. “Using Medication Purchases to Measure the Health Consequences of Air Pollution” (with M. Greenstone and J. Shapiro). $334,951.
Steven J C Gaulin
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research associates
Anthropology
UCSB
Emeritus Professor
Steven J. C. Gaulin earned his undergraduate degree with a double major in anthropology and psychology from U. C. Berkeley, and his doctorate in biological anthropology from Harvard. He has been a Professor of both Anthropology and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and is currently a Professor of Integrative Anthropological Sciences at U. C. Santa Barbara. He has two cross-fertilizing research interests: the evolution of sex differences in human anatomy, physiology, cognition and behavior; and evolutionary psychology. His research involves a wide range of field and laboratory techniques and has been published in books and journals that span evolutionary theory, ecology, anthropology, psychology and philosophy of science. He is senior author of a leading textbook in evolutionary psychology, editor of a reader in biological anthropology, and junior author of a book on women’s fat metabolism. He recently completed a ten-year term as Co-editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
Stuart Sweeney
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research associates
Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Director of Geography
Stuart Sweeney’s diverse academic research interests span topics from applied statistics, spatial analysis, economic geography, demography, health and development. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on human migration at UCSB. His research in these areas has been supported by the NSF’s Geography and Regional Science progam, the Southern California Association of Governments, and the U.S. Department of Labor, in several cases as PI.
Grants, Awards and Distinctions:
UC Center for New Racial Studies (PI). 2013-14. Central American fertility in Los Angeles translation: Informing statistical models with qualitative context. $12,000
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David Lopez-Carr
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research associates
Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Broom Center Affiliation(s)
Area Director, Population-Environment Interactions Theme
David Lopez-Carr directs the Human-Environment Dynamics Lab (HED) at UCSB. His research focuses on links among population, health, rural development, agriculture, and marine and forest resource use and conservation, through ongoing projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This research has been supported by over two million dollars of awards through over 50 fellowships, grants, and awards from NASA, NSF, NIH, the Mellon and Fulbright Foundations.
Grants, Awards and Distinctions:
Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Grant. Strengthening Land Degradation Neutrality data and decision-making through free and open access platforms. Executing Agency: Conservation International. Project PI: Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich. D. López-Carr, PI for component 2: Understanding the socio-environmental interactions between drought, land degradation, and poverty. $2 million USD ($397,700 in-kind). Component 2 budget: $406,314. 9/5/2019 - 5/31/2022
UCSB ISBER Collaborative Research Initiative Grant program. “Integrating planetary health into households and communities in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), Guatemala’’. 7/1/2022-6/30/2023. $7,975.UCSB Senate Faculty Research Grant. Women’s health, livelihoods, and empowerment lead to forest conservation? A before and after intervention design of households and communities in the Maya Biosphere, Guatemala. PI David Lopez-Carr. 2021-2022. $8,365
UCSB College of Letters & Science’s Council of Deans Support Grant: Audacious Ideas for a Healthy and Equitable World Conference. November 2018. PI David Lopez-Carr. $2,505
Convocatoria Extraordinaria de Colaboración Binacional frente al COVID-19, UNAM - Universidad de California (UC). The compounded impact of COVID-19 on agricultural workers in the presence of heat waves. Amando Sanchez and David Lopez-Carr, PIs. September 1, 2020 through March 1, 2021. $4,516
Binational Collaborative Projects Addressing COVID-19. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) through the Scientific Research Coordination (CIC), the Liaison and Technology Transfer Coordination (CVTT) and the University of California (UC) through Alianza UCMX in collaboration with the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. COVID-19 and Migrant Workers: Enhancing Health Resilience and Productivity. David Lopez-Carr and Armando Sanchez, PIs. September 1, 2020 through March 1, 2021. $5,000
National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research. 2012-2018. Santa Barbara Coastal LTER: Long-term dynamics of. D. R. Reed, S. Holbrook, J. Melack, and D. Siegal, (P.I.s). D. López-Carr et al. (co-Is) $4,200,000 (Renewal)
National Geographic Explorers Grant. 2016-2018. Does REDD+ increase carbon emissions by enabling migration? Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and out-migration from the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), Guatemala. D. López-Carr PI $19,262.
University of California, Office of the President. 2016-2019. Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) Course Development Grant: "Global Population, Health, and Environment". PIs W. Smith and D. López-Carr. $220,000.00.
University of California, Research Programs on Migration and Health (PIMSA). 2018-2020. Agricultural Productivity and Worker Health: The Hidden Costs of Extreme Heat. PIs David Lopez-Carr and Armando Sanchez Vargas. $24,948.
University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS), UC MEXUS-CONACYT. 2018 - 2019. Collaborative Grant Extreme Heat and Migrant Workers: Enhancing Health Resilience and Productivity. PIs David Lopez-Carr and Armando Sanchez Vargas. $24,979.
University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) Center of Expertise on Planetary Health. UC Counsel of Chancellors. 2016-2019. PIs D. López-Carr and W. Smith. $600,000.
University of California, Office of the President. Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) 2016-2019. Course Development Grant: Global Population, Health, and Environment. PIs W. Smith and D. López-Carr. $110,000.
Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) Grant. 2016-2018. Environmental levers for health: Advancing a priority agenda for Disease Ecology and “Planetary Health” in the 21st century. S.Sokolow and K. Lafferty (PIs). D. López-Carr (et al.) co-I. $200,000.
National Science Foundation. 2012-2018. Long Term Ecological Research Santa Barbara Coastal LTER: PIs D.R.. Reed, S. Holbrook, J. Melack, D. Siegel; co-I D. López-Carr et al. $5,266,158.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Land Use/Cover Change Grant (LULCC). 2012-2015. “The Urban Transition in Ghana and Its Relation to Land Cover and Land Use Change Through Analysis of Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Satellite Image Data.” PI: Doug Stow; co-PIs: David López-Carr, John Weeks, Li An. $993,000.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 2011-2014. Climate Scene Investigators (CSI)-Transitions Program Grant: “A Global Standardized Precipitation Index Supporting the US Drought Portal and the Famine Early Warning System Network” PI: Chris Funk; co-PIs: Greg Husak, David López-Carr, Joel Michaelson, Michael Brewer (NESDIS/NCDC). $297,960.
Three University of California, Santa Barbara Faculty Senate Travel Awards. 2005 - present.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth System Science Fellowship. 2014-2017. “Climate-induced Natural Hazards in the Central Himalaya: Evaluating Rain-on-Snow Flooding Events with Implications for Water Management.” PI: D.L. Carr. $90,000
National Science Foundation. 2013-2015. “Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems - Exploratory(CNH-Ex075746271): Quantifying linkages among land-use policies, agriculturalintensification, habitat fragmentation and social-ecological resilience in a tropical biological corridor.” PI: Lisette P Waits; co-PIs and co-Is: Nilsa A Bosque-Perez, Leontina Hormel, Lee Vierling; Collaborating Investigators: Bryan Finegan,Fabrice DeClerck, Fernando Casanoves, David López-Carr. $248,733.
National Science Foundation Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH). “Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy People: The Coupled Human Health and Environmental Dynamics of Schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Co-P.I. $1,499,897.
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Michael Gurven
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advisory committee
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Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor
Associate Director Broom
Associate Director Broom
Broom Center Affiliation(s)
Area Director, Biodemography and Evolution Theme
Michael Gurven’s research focuses on the biodemography of the human lifespan and its implications for understanding development, aging, intergenerational transfers and familial organization. He has also studied social and economic behavior among foragers and forager-farmers, with a view to understanding proximate and ultimate explanations for the diversity of pro-social behaviors found in those societies as well as modern ones. This work, much of which has culminated in the Tsimane Life History and Health Project, has been extensively funded by NIH/NIA and by NSF including a 2.6 million dollar NIH/NIA grant on the biodemography of aging with Hillard Kaplan.
Grants, Awards and Distinctions:
National Institutes of Health/NIA Grant. 2022-202. (Joint PI: Gurven, Kaplan, Finch, Thomas) $15,000,000.
Impetus Grant. Toward a universal characterization of human aging: immunosenescence. 2021. (joint-PIs: Gurven, Alan Cohen) $90,000.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 2022.
National Institutes of Health/NIA Grant. R01. 2018-2022. Brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s in a low CVD-risk population. Joint PI, $2,902,118.
National Institutes of Health/NIA Grant. Administrative supplement. 2018. Joint PI, $411,654.
UCSB Academic Senate. "Prevalence and correlates of vertebral fracture among Bolivian forager-farmers". (PI). $7,500.
National Institutes of Health/NIA Grant. R01. 2017-2022. "Brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s in a low CVD-risk population". (Joint PI: Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Caleb Finch, Gregory Thomas). $3,773,865.
National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging. "The Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging". 2011-2016. PI. $3,500,000.
National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging. 2012-2015. R01, “Cardiovascular and renal aging among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists”. (joint-PIs: Michael Gurven & Hillard Kaplan). $1,600,000.
National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging. 2011-2015. R01, “Immune Function over the Life Course among Forager-Horticulturists“. (joint-PIs: Michael Gurven & Hillard Kaplan). $1,906,000.
National Institutes of Health/NIA, R01, “The Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging” (Joint PI: Gurven, Kaplan). $1,250,000.
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Kelly Bedard
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research associates
Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor
Kelly Bedard’s research focuses largely on the economics of education and health, including influential studies of the effects of military service on health, determinants of gender test score gaps among children in OECD countries, and the determinants of obesity in populations of immigrants to the U.S. Probably her best known paper studied the effects of a student’s age relative to his/her classmates in kindergarten on success later in life; this research was featured prominently in the popular press and in a recent bestselling book by Malcolm Gladwell. Prof. Bedard’s research has been supported by two grants from NIDDK.
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