Gregory Kiker

Greg has over 30 years of experience with simulation modeling of coupled human-natural systems including household decision-making, savanna ecology, deforestation, crop production and livestock/wildlife dynamics.  As a Professor at the University of Florida, his current research projects include environmental modeling, agent-based platforms, decision support systems and practical linkages of risk analysis, adaptive management and multi-criteria decision analysis.  Greg is a two–time Fulbright Scholar to South Africa (1992 and 2012) and received his PhD from Cornell University in 1998.  From 1998 to 2002, Dr Kiker was a Senior Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal where he conducted ecological and agro-hydrological modeling and climate change research.  He has consulted widely in Africa and Latin America in the use of simulation models for ecosystem management, livestock systems, decision/risk analysis and climate change.