David López-Carr

Dr. David López-Carr is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He directs the Human-Environment Dynamics Lab, focusing on interdisciplinary research linking population dynamics, health, environmental change, and rural development in Latin America. His work spans deforestation and migration studies, informed by fieldwork across 70+ countries and fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and basic Q'eqchí Maya.

• PhD in Geography from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• NIH post-doctoral fellowship in Biostatistics at UNC's School of Public Health

His research integrates geographic methodologies with public health and environmental science perspectives, emphasizing human-environment interactions in tropical regions.