Scott,+Beck

=Scott Beck=



I'm an MS candidate in the Natural Resources Curriculum, focusing on Urban Ecology and GIS. I'm expecting to graduate in May or August of 2012. My thesis focuses on how land cover patterns and demographics affect -- or are related to-- water quality in the triangle. I participated in the IMAGINE program, run by Dr. Melissa McHale, during the summer of 2011. The goal of the program is to teach advanced graduate students how to conduct Socio-Ecological Research, in rural South Africa, in order to directly benefit communities in need. I'm developing a baseline ecological land cover classification in some of the rural communities in which we were working, which will be used for further ecological and SES assessment in future IMAGINE program projects.

I like college basketball and hot sauce.