Stuart Sweeney
Mailing Address:
Geography Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
office:
EH 5832phone:
(805)893-5647fax:
(805)893-3146email:
email: sweeney_obf (at) obf.domain: geog.ucsb.eduwebsite:
http://geog.ucsb.edu/~sweeney/
Research Interests:
Urban and regional modeling and planning, human migration, local economic development/policy, and spatial point process models of economic activity
Urban and regional modeling and planning, human migration, local economic development/policy, and spatial point process models of economic activity
Education:
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (City and Regional Planning), 1999
BA, University of California, San Diego (Urban Studies and Planning)
Courses Taught:
5, Introduction to Human Geography
17, Introduction to Geographic Data Analysis
108, Urban Geography
143, Human Migration
172, Introduction to Geographic Data Analysis
185c, Urban and Regional Modeling and Planning
224, Methods of Regional Analysis
243, Migration Models
Honors:
Stuart won the 1999 Springer-Verlag Award for the Best Paper at the Western Regional Science Association's Annual Meeting, he was nominated for the UCSB Plous Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2005, and his innovative course, "The Geography of Surfing", has attracted national media coverage.
Stuart won the 1999 Springer-Verlag Award for the Best Paper at the Western Regional Science Association's Annual Meeting, he was nominated for the UCSB Plous Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2005, and his innovative course, "The Geography of Surfing", has attracted national media coverage.
Publications:
Stuart Sweeney's Publications
