nmagliocca

Magliocca, Nicholas

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Alabama

Dr. Magliocca is an Assistant Research Professor at SESYNC. His research combines synthesis methods and agent-based models to investigate the dynamics of human-environment interactions and their consequences for environmental and economic sustainability. A current project is investigating adaptive responses within the Baltimore-Washington region to repeated hurricane and heat waves through the integration of an agent-based model of land-use change with a larger, integrated hazards, impacts, and resilience model. Nick will also continue work with the GLOBE project, which developed an online collaborative environment that enables land change scientists and researchers to synthesize and integrate local and regional case studies to assess the global relevance of their work. At SESYNC, Nick provides simulation modeling and data analysis and usage support for funded projects. Nick received his PhD in Geography and Environmental Systems from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in fall 2012 where he was a National Science Foundation IGERT fellow. He also holds a MS in Environmental Management from Duke University and a BS in Environmental Systems: Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution from the University of California, San Diego.

CV:

magliocca_cv_2016_public.pdf

Associated Projects:

Globalizing Our Understanding of Land-Use Change

Integrated Regional Model

Resources
Video: Introduction to Spatial Agent-Based Models Part 1	Jan 31, 2021 Introduction to Agent-Based Models (ABMs) Part 1 In the first video of this two-part series, Dr. Nicholas R. Magliocca provides an overview of the basics of spatial agent-based models (ABMs) within the context of socio-environmental systems.
Video: Introduction to Spatial Agent-Based Models Part 2	Jan 31, 2021 Introduction to Agent-Based Models (ABMs) Part 2 In this video, Dr. Nicholas R. Magliocca discusses the core components of an ABM; how they work; and some applications that illustrate the flexibility of ABMs.
Emergent conservation outcomes of shared risk perception in human‐wildlife systems	May 14, 2020 Article published in Conservation Biology.
‘One Size Does Not Fit All’: A Roadmap of Purpose-Driven Mixed-Method Pathways for Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-Based Models	Jan 31, 2020 Article published in The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media Data for Socio-Environmental Systems Research	Jul 04, 2019 Article published in Land
Modeling cocaine traffickers and counterdrug interdiction forces as a complex adaptive system	Apr 01, 2019 Article published in PNAS.
Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case studies of social-ecological systems	Mar 14, 2018 Article published in Global Environmental Change.
Evolving the Anthropocene: linking multi-level selection with long-term social–ecological change	Nov 23, 2017 Article published in Sustainability Science.
White Paper: An Overview of Conceptual Frameworks, Analytical Approaches and Research Questions in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus	Mar 01, 2017 SESYNC white paper summarizing the current state of FEW nexus research.
Resilience in the Global Food System	Feb 09, 2017 Article published in Environmental Research Letters.