Aaron Sparks

Quantitative social scientist passionate about using data to solve problems. Proven expertise in applying advanced statistical methods and machine learning through research and project leadership.

Research Expertise

Environmental Politics
Sociology and Political Science
Development
Social Psychology
Applied Psychology
Polymers and Plastics
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Ecology
Urban Studies
Geography, Planning and Development
Food Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Global and Planetary Change
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Public Administration
Political Science and International Relations
Safety Research
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Building and Construction
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

About

Quantitative social scientist passionate about using data to solve problems. Proven expertise in applying advanced statistical methods and machine learning through research and project leadership.

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Publications

Support for environmental protection: an integration of ideological-consistency and information-deficit models
Environmental Politics
2016
Opening up the black box: citizen group strategies for engaging grassroots activism in the twenty-first century
Interest Groups & Advocacy
2017
Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology
Journal of Environmental Psychology
2023
Measuring Environmental Values and Identity
Society & Natural Resources
2020
Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales
Journal of Environmental Psychology
2022
Climate Change in Your Backyard: When Climate is Proximate, People Become Activists
Frontiers in Political Science
2021
The incoherence of sustainability literacy assessed with the Sulitest
Nature Sustainability
2021
Confidence in Local, National, and International Scientists on Climate Change
Sustainability
2020
Exploring sustainability literacy: developing and assessing a bottom-up measure of what students know about sustainability
Frontiers in Sustainability
2023
USING SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC SIMILARITY OF WEB APIS TO ESTIMATE PORTING EFFORT
Services Transactions on Services Computing
2014
Show and tell advocacy: how advocates convince policymakers by showing them the work they do
Frontiers in Political Science
2023
I'm Not a Scientist, I Just Know What I See: Hurricane experience and climate change acceptance
Social Science Quarterly
2022
Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Sustainability in 2021
Sustainability
2022
Fine, J., Burnham, L., Griffith, K., Ji, M., Narro, V., & Pitts, S. (2018). No One Size Fits All: Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age
Work and Occupations
2020

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara

PhD, Political Science / June, 2017

Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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