Seth Spielman is a geographer and urban planner who works at the intersection of public health, urban planning, and geographic information science.  He is interested in understanding the relationships between discretionary land use policy and social and environmental outcomes at multiple scales.  His research uses computational tools such as data mining, agent based simulation, and statistics to explore the relationships between urban environments, public health and well being, and ecosystems.  Seth is also actively researching the history of enumeration areas in urban social surveys and is involved in community based planning and public health projects in Buffalo, NY and New York City.