CV

EDUCATION

State University of New York at Buffalo
Ph.D. Geography (2008)
Advisors: Peter Rogerson (primary), David Mark, Ezra Zubrow, Irene Casas
Columbia University
Masters of Science in Urban Planning (2001)
Advisors: Elliott Sclar (primary), Peter Marcuse, Sig Grava
Macalester College
Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Communications (1997)

PUBLICATIONS (in peer reviewed journals)

  1. Spielman, S.E. and Yoo, E.  (2009 – in press)  The Spatial Dimensions of Neighborhood Effects.  Social Science and Medicine
  2. Spielman, S.E. and Thill, J.C. (2008).  Social Area Analysis, Data Mining, and GIS. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 32(2)
  3. Erdemir, E. T., Batta R., Spielman S. E., Rogerson P., et. al. (2008).   Optimization of aeromedical base locations in New Mexico. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 40(3)
  4. Erdemir, E.T., Batta, R., Spielman, S.E., Rogerson, P., Blatt, A., and Flanigan, M.  (2008).  Location Coverage Models with Demand Originating from Nodes and Paths: Application to Cellular Network Design.  European Journal of Operations Research, 190(3)
  5. Borrell, L., Northridge, M. E., Miller, D., Golembeski, C., Spielman S. E. (2007). Oral Health and Health Care for Older Adults: Addressing Disparities and Planning Services. Special Care in Dentistry, 26(6).
  6. Spielman, S. E. (2006). Appropriate use of the K-function in Urban Environments. American Journal of Public Health, 96(2).
  7. Spielman, S.E., Golembeski, C.A., Northridge, M.E., et al.  (2006). Interdisciplinary Planning for Healthier Communities: Findings from the Harlem Children’s Zone Asthma Initiative.  Journal of the American Planning Association, 72(1).

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

  1. Spielman, S.E. Does your neighborhood shape behavior or does your behavior shape your neighborhood?  Scale and inference with measures of urban form.
  2. Yoo, E.-H., Spielman, S.E., Linkletter, C. A Geostatistical perspective on neighborhood effects and residential self-selection.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Director, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University  (September 2008 – )
Lecturer,  Department of Sociology, Brown University (September 2008 –)
Postdoc,  Department of Geography, University of North Carolina Charlotte (January 2008 - May 2008)
Graduate Student, NSF IGERT Fellow in Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo (September 2004 – December 2008)
Cartographer, United States Forest Service Student Temporary Employment Program. Integrating Social and Biophysical Sciences for Natural Resource Management, George D. Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory (October 2006 - October 2007)
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in Urban Planning, Columbia University.  (February 2005 – July 2006)
Researcher, CalSpan-University at Buffalo Center for Transportation Injury Research  (January 2005 – September 2006)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University. (December 2001 – September 2004)
GIS Coordinator,  Digital Design Lab, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation  (August 2001 – September 2004)
Researcher, New Jersey Office of State Planning (May 2000 – September 2000)
President, Reference Book Center, Inc., New York, New York. (July 1997 – September 1999)

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

  1. National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship in Geographic Information Science, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.  Provides approximately $110,000 in stipend, $14,000 in research expenses, and full tuition scholarship over 4 years.  PI David Mark (2004-2008).
  2. Hugh Calkins Memorial Award For Applied GIS, $1000 (2007).
  3. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Student Travel Award, $800 (2007).
  4. Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Student Paper Award, 3rd Place (2007).
  5. Graphical Innovations in Justice Mapping, Open Society Institute and JEHT Foundation. Research Scientist, $30,000 in salary support (total award $200,000).  PIs Laura Kurgan and Eric Cadora (2005-2006).
  6. Promoting GIS in the Social Sciences, Columbia University Academic Quality Fund.  Co-director (total award $186,000).  PI Elliott Sclar (2004-2005).
  7. Advancing Population Health in Northern Manhattan:  Integrating Oral Health Care Data for Older Adults into a Spatial Database, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  Investigator (total award $3500).  PIs Louisa Borrell and Mary Northridge (2003-2004).
  8. The Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) Asthma Initiative:  Mapping Progress, The Anne E. Dyson Community Pediatrics Training Initiative.  Investigator (total award $49,911). PI Mary Northridge (2002-2003).
  9. The Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) Asthma Initiative:  Mapping Progress,  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.  Investigator (total award $15,000).  PI Roger Vaughan (2003).
  10. Certificate of Recognition from New York City Office of Emergency Management (2002). Columbia University Award for Excellence in Planning Methods and Techniques (2001).
  11. William H. Kinne Fellowship for International Planning Research in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2001).

PRESENTATIONS

  1. Spielman, S.E. (2008).  55th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, The spatial dimensions of urban form: how geography effects the estimation of the association between the built environment and behavior.
  2. Spielman, S. E. (2008) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Directional statistics to detect differences in spatial behavior by geo-demographic groups (spatial data mining session).
  3. Spielman, S.E. (2008).  54th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Estimating Neighborhood / Environmental Effects: A simulation approach.
  4. Spielman, S.E. and Thill, J.C. (2007) International Cartographic Association’s Second Meeting on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of the Spatial Structure and Dynamics of Urban Environments, Social Area Analysis, Data Mining, and GIS.
  5. Spielman, S.E. and Thill, J.C. (2007) University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Summer Assembly, Social Area Analysis, Data Mining, and GIS.
  6. Spielman, S.E. (2006) 53rd Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Understanding Neighborhood Demographics Through the Kohonen Algorithm and GIS.
  7. Spielman, S. E. (2006) Baltimore Ecosystem Study Quarterly Science Meeting, Asthma, the Built Environment, and the Baltimore Ecosystem Study.
  8. Spielman, S. E. (2006) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Housing and Health.
  9. Spielman, S. E. (2005) American Planning Association Annual Conference,  Childhood Asthma and the Built Environment.
  10. Spielman, S. E., and Ortiz B. (2004) Dyson Foundation Community Pediatrics Workshop, GIS in Community Pediatrics
  11. Spielman, S. E. (2004) Second International Health GIS Conference, Community Based GIS and Asthma in Central Harlem.
  12. Spielman, S. E. (2004) Columbia University Urbanism and Health Seminar Series, Community Based Health Interventions and GIS.

TRAINING WORKSHOPS

  • Environmental Demography (2008), Boulder, Colorado
  • University at Buffalo Summer Statistics Workshop on Hierarchical Linear Modeling (2007), Buffalo, New York.
  • UC Berkley Workshop on Object Based Image Analysis with Definiens Professional (2007), Berkeley, California
  • Vespucci Summer School in Geographic Information Science, Spatial Data Infrastructures and Geodemographics (2005), Fiesole, Italy
  • Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science Workshop on Point Pattern Analysis (2004), Santa Barbara, California
  • Certificate in Database Application Development (2002), Columbia University School of Continuing Education (completed 3 of 4 semesters).

COMPUTER AND SOFTWARE SKILLS

  • Programming- Java, Python, SQL, VBA, R/S, PHP, PL/SQL
  • GIS- ArcGIS, ArcView 3.x, MapInfo, Definiens Professional,  IDRISI, Google Maps API, ArcObjects, PostGIS
  • Database- Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Postgresql
  • Statistics- R, Statistica,  SAS, STATA, SPSS