Darcy Bird
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Florida
- darcyabird@gmail.com
- ORCID: 0000-0003-3466-6284
- darcybarcy
- United States
- PST - Pacific Standard Time - GMT-8:00
Research areas and topics
Research Focus:
paleodemography, human ecology
- Employment Sector: Academic
- Regions: North America, Southwest US
- Materials: Dendrochronology, Settlement archaeology
- Analytical Skills: agent-based modeling, approximate Bayesian computation, Cross-case comparison, databases, dating, digital humanities, statistics
- Research Topics: climate change, ecological resilience, health, human ecology, life stages, migration, settlement patterns, Social Complexity, sustainability
Interest in Synthesis
My current research integrates life history theory, dynamical systems theory, and human behavioral ecology to examine the human paleodemographic dramatic transitions and the roles of climate change, landscape modification, and subsistence in producing difficult-to-revert changes to population and society. I am interested in the ways in which differing scale (e.g., global, continental, regional, local) informs data quality needs and affects the forms of questions one can reasonably answer.
Collaboration Interests
I am interested in collaborating on macroscale research with a focus on human-environment interactions, settlement/urban scaling, and paleodemography in general.