laboratories

social demography computer lab

The Broom Center's Social Demography Computer Lab opened in January 2012, in North Hall room 1053.  The lab offers state-or-the-art computer hardware, plus a wide array of statistical packages, including Stata, MATLAB, R, ArcGIS, SAS, SPSS and software for qualitative research (Atlas.ti).   Users also have access to senior graduate student statistical and technical advisors who are physically present in the lab 20 hours each week.   

human biodemography lab

In 2012, the Center plans to open a Human Biodemography Lab, directed by Professor Michael Gurven. The lab will have the capability to analyze urine, blood and salivary biomarkers of stress, immune function, nutritional status, infection, reproductive hormones, as well as standard anthropometrics used to more roughly gauge growth and nutritional status. The lab will serve UCSB researchers and others who study biological-social interactions.