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My name is Doug Becker, and I consider myself to be an environmental science/health/engineering specialist. I did a BS in environmental health for undergrad at Illinois State University, a MS in environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina, and a PhD in environmental sciences at the University of Illinois. Following earning my PhD in 2021, I completed two postdoctoral fellowships, the first in agricultural economics/natural resources at the University of Idaho, and the second in the climate adaptation research division of Conservation International. My areas of research interest focus on nature-based solutions to climate change, the human health impacts of environmental factors such as air quality, temperature, and green spaces, and the nexus between environment, economics, and ecology.
I specialize in geospatial analytical techniques and spatial statistical modeling, including spatial regressions and regression techniques with added spatial components such as neighborhood weighting effects in general-additive models. I also have extensive experience running non-spatial models and performing the necessary exploratory and pre-modeling functions and analyses like data gathering, cleaning, formatting, and joining, as well as descriptive statistics and general data science tasks.
In my spare time, I love to read books and then review them, play games (video, card, tabletop, among others), and go outside to walk, run, hike, and bike.
Do you want to see my education, research, professional, and publication history? Check out my Google Scholar profile or my CV here.
If you want to check out what I can do by reading my first-author or sole-author publications, you can see them at the links below.
Becker et al. 2019. Green spaces and Medicare spending
Becker & Browning, 2021. Green spaces, blue spaces, and healthcare spending
Becker et al. 2022. Green spaces and opioid mortality
Becker et al. 2022. The Conservation Reserve Program and air quality
Becker 2024. Environmental quality index, extreme heat, and healthcare spending