Scott Nordstrom

scottwatsonnordstrom&gmail:com

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Population Research Center in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University. Here, I mostly work on data science projects related to demography in metropolitan Portland and the state of Oregon.

Previously, I worked primarily in ecology and evolutionary biology. I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia, advised by Jennifer Williams. Prior to that, I obtained my PhD from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Deartment at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where I was advised by Brett Melbourne. I was also a student in the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology program.

I am relatively new to human demography and quantitative social science. My interests in this field include domestic migration, political geography, and education.

My ecology interests include population dynamics and demography (mostly in plants), life history theory, quantitative genetics, pollination biology, phenology, landscape ecology, microhabitat variation, and remote sensing.

My math interests include networks and graph theory, probability and stochastic processes, applied linear algebra, and statistical modeling and analysis.