Sofia Kaloper

I am a PhD Student in the Geography Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara, advised by Professor Susan Cassels and graduate associate of the Broom Center for Demography at UCSB. I am broadly interested in health and human geography, spatial statistics, spatial analysis, geo-spatial modeling techniques, the social determinants of health and infectious disease modeling. My personal research focuses on attempting to quantify the uncertainty contained within survey collected locations related to HIV risk and prevention activities so that the effect of the uncertainty on results of geospatial analysis techniques can be better understood and accounted for.

I am also a graduate researcher of the Wildfire Resilience Initiative (WRI) at UCSB. My work at the WRI involves surveying local residents to assess  risk perception and engagement in wildfire risk mitigation activities, overseen by professors Stuart Sweeney and Alan Murray.  

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