Simon C Brewer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4970577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon C Brewer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon C |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewer |
| SIGNATURE | BREWER S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Geography University of Utah Salt Lake City Utah USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The impact of subsistence change on demography
Subsistence intensification is a major process in human history, however, quantifying its effects on demography is challenging given uncertainties regarding timing, population reconstructions, and ecological conditions. To help address these issues, we combine advances in ecological theory with Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) to generate a replicable, theory-informed, computational model for quantifying the effects of intensification on pa…
Utah Latina/o/x suicide decedents less likely to die by firearm, even in rural areas
Introduction: Suicide death remains a significantly rarer event among Latina/o/x populations compared to non-Latina/o/x populations. However, the reasons why Latina/o/x communities experience relatively lower suicide rates are not fully understood. Critical gaps exist in the examination of Latina/o/x suicide death, especially in rural settings, where suicide death by firearm is historically more common within non-Latina/o/x populations. Method: W…
Spatial analysis of disaster resilience research
Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America
Racial and ethnic disparities in health risk from industrial surface water pollution in the United States, 2011–2021
Do counts of radiocarbon-dated archaeological sites reflect human population density? A preliminary empirical validation examining spatial variation across late Holocene California
Researchers increasingly rely on aggregations of radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites as proxies for past human populations. This approach has been critiqued on several grounds, including the assumptions that material is deposited, preserved, and sampled in proportion to past population size. However, various attempts to quantitatively assess the approach suggest there may be some validity in assuming date counts reflect relative populatio…
Fire history reconstruction in grassland ecosystems
Citation: Leys, B., Brewer, S. C., McConaghy, S., Mueller, J., & McLauchlan, K. K. (2015). Fire history reconstruction in grassland ecosystems: amount of charcoal reflects local area burned. Environmental Research Letters, 10(11), 114009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114009
Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984–2011
We used a database capturing large wildfires (> 405 ha) in the western U.S. to document regional trends in fire occurrence, total fire area, fire size, and day of year of ignition for 1984–2011. Over the western U.S. and in a majority of ecoregions, we found significant, increasing trends in the number of large fires and/or total large fire area per year. Trends were most significant for southern and mountain ecoregions, coinciding with trends to…
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Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984–2011
We used a database capturing large wildfires (> 405 ha) in the western U.S. to document regional trends in fire occurrence, total fire area, fire size, and day of year of ignition for 1984–2011. Over the western U.S. and in a majority of ecoregions, we found significant, increasing trends in the number of large fires and/or total large fire area per year. Trends were most significant for southern and mountain ecoregions, coinciding with trends to…
Fire history reconstruction in grassland ecosystems
Citation: Leys, B., Brewer, S. C., McConaghy, S., Mueller, J., & McLauchlan, K. K. (2015). Fire history reconstruction in grassland ecosystems: amount of charcoal reflects local area burned. Environmental Research Letters, 10(11), 114009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114009
Utah Latina/o/x suicide decedents less likely to die by firearm, even in rural areas
Introduction: Suicide death remains a significantly rarer event among Latina/o/x populations compared to non-Latina/o/x populations. However, the reasons why Latina/o/x communities experience relatively lower suicide rates are not fully understood. Critical gaps exist in the examination of Latina/o/x suicide death, especially in rural settings, where suicide death by firearm is historically more common within non-Latina/o/x populations. Method: W…
Spatial analysis of disaster resilience research
Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America
Racial and ethnic disparities in health risk from industrial surface water pollution in the United States, 2011–2021
Do counts of radiocarbon-dated archaeological sites reflect human population density? A preliminary empirical validation examining spatial variation across late Holocene California
Researchers increasingly rely on aggregations of radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites as proxies for past human populations. This approach has been critiqued on several grounds, including the assumptions that material is deposited, preserved, and sampled in proportion to past population size. However, various attempts to quantitatively assess the approach suggest there may be some validity in assuming date counts reflect relative populatio…
The impact of subsistence change on demography
Subsistence intensification is a major process in human history, however, quantifying its effects on demography is challenging given uncertainties regarding timing, population reconstructions, and ecological conditions. To help address these issues, we combine advances in ecological theory with Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) to generate a replicable, theory-informed, computational model for quantifying the effects of intensification on pa…
Geography (6 works) · Population (5 works) · Physical geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (3 works)