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The Climate Toolbox 2015 - Present, CIRC I'm a web developer for The Climate Toolbox -- a set of web tools at ClimateToolbox.org for visualizing summaries of climate datasets on maps and graphs utilizing climate data from the past and forecasts and projections for the future. This project is led by...

About

I'm an applied microeconomist working with patent and publication data to identify the unintended spillovers of collaboration across international borders. I love teaching and being in the classroom and have enjoyed the opportunities I have had to teach. I am blessed to have been able to offer such...

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Evidence Synthesis and Development of Theories

Testing Theories Using Meta-Analysis A key focus of my research is the application of meta-anaytic techniques to test key hypotheses ofsocial cognition, motivational, and other behaviorial theories, particularly those that have been applied to health behaviors, using data from the synthesis of...

Theory-Based Determinants and Behavior Change Research

Theory-Based Determinants and Behavior Change Research A key research theme is focused on identification of the motivational and belief-based psychological deterimants of behavior, particularly in health behavior contexts, and testing predictive models that identify the relative effects of these...

LAB ALUM

Sofia Aguilar Sofia Aguilar, a native of Los Angeles, California, graduated from the University of California, Merced in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in Public Health. She was a Student Researcher at Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab in the Department of Public Health. In this...

Research

Manganese and iron oxide-modified activated carbon for the remediation of mercury-contaminated sediment and water Graduate Students: Edwin Rivas Meraz, Danielle Jones, Alex Leven Collaborators: Marc Beutel, Sam Traina Funding: Department of Energy, Environmental Management, Minority Serving...

Research

RNA polymerase dynamics and function RNA polymerase synthesizes RNA during transcription, which is a highly complex process with many open questions on its mechanism remain to be answered. We are particularly interested in dynamics of RNA polymerase at the active site as well as at the larger scale...

Contact

Location: SSM 324 Email: familylab@ucmerced.edu Contact Professor Main directly at: amain@ucmerced.edu