Dr. Somayeh Dodge, Professor of Geography, received the 2022 Emerging Scholar Award from the Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Recently, she also received an NSF Early CAREER award. Recognition of the awards and a summary of the research was featured in the UCSB Current, by staff writer Harrison Tasoff. Read the article for more information, or visit the MOVE Lab at UCSB. 

 

Dr. Dodge's "movement data science" research focuses on developing data analytics, knowledge discovery, modeling, and visualization techniques to study movement in human and natural systems. Her research applies spatial data science and computational approaches to advance the knowledge and understanding of how movement patterns are formed in dynamic ecological and social systems. 

 

Dr. Dodge serves as an Assistant Professor of Spatial Data Science and runs the MOVE Lab in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Geography with a specialization in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2011.