Scott Heckbert (PhD 2010) is the Principal Environmental Scientist at the Alberta Energy Regulator, and an Adjunct Professor at University of Alberta and University of Lethbridge, Canada. Scott’s area of specialization is combining agent-based models, GIS, and 3D visualization. These technologies are used as digital laboratories where scientists, decision makers, and stakeholders can interact for improved understanding of complex social-environmental systems.
Research Interests
Environmental impact, hydrology, land use change, digital twinning, experimental economics, GIS, 3D, agent-based models.
Cumulative effects agent-based model of forestry and hunting
Scott Heckbert | Published Friday, December 04, 2009 | Last modified Saturday, April 27, 2013This NetLogo model represents hunters and forestry road development in a spatial landscape. The cumulative effects of multiple resource use is explored.
MayaSim: An agent-based model of the ancient Maya social-ecological system
Scott Heckbert | Published Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | Last modified Tuesday, July 02, 2013MayaSim is an agent-based, cellular automata and network model of the ancient Maya. Biophysical and anthropogenic processes interact to grow a complex social ecological system.
Cumulative effects agent-based model of forestry and hunting
Scott Heckbert | Published Friday, December 04, 2009 | Last modified Saturday, April 27, 2013A special case of the model ‘huntingforestry’, where a ‘pulsar’ pattern emerges, balancing hunting and game population growth.
Under development.