Aleksander Berg
PhD Candidate in Geography

I am a PhD candidate in Geography and a graduate research assistant in the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Overarchingly, my research focuses on how to use big data at fine grained scales to answer questions about natural hazards, health, and population dynamics to better inform decision making in and for those communities. My current work pushes these pathways further through the development of data products and methodologies that apply these data to deepen our understanding of how people and the environment interact across scales.

Aleksander Berg, PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder
CU Geography
CU Institute of Behavioral Science

Research Fields

Natural Hazards

How can we better map and understand the places where communities are exposed to natural hazards? I research where communities are at risk to wildfire using remote sensed imagery and property data.

Geographies of Health

Do the characteristics of where you live lead to different health outcomes such as early mortality? I develop methods for processing and using big data such as individual death certificates to understand how crises such as the opioid epidemic have led to increased midlife mortality in the U.S.

GIScience

What are the gotchas of using high resolution spatial data? Across data streams and domains of applied research, I analyze the best ways of using spatial data.

Publications

  1. TRANSACTIONS IN GIS (2026)

    Why it's so hard to match residence addresses to census blocks—and how to fix it

    Berg, A., Gutmann, M., Leyk, S., & Kwon, H. — DOI: 10.1111/tgis.70225

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  2. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (2026)

    Workforce patterns and income disparities in a growing US city

    Berg, A. K, Howell, A., & Bagchi-Sen, S. — DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbaf071

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  3. APPLIED GEOGRAPHY (2024)

    Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–2020

    Berg, A. K, Connor, D. S., Kedron, P., & Frazier, A. E. — DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103271

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  4. CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF REGIONS ECONOMY AND SOCIETY (2023)

    Who gets left behind by left behind places?

    Connor, D. S., Berg, A. K, Kemeny, T., & Kedron, P. J. — DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsad031

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Curriculum Vitae

Last updated: April 2026

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