Spatial Analysis Research Center

Website: sparc.ucmerced.edu

The goal of the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SpARC) Centralized Research Center is to add value and capabilities to UC Merced’s existing and planned research, teaching, administrative, and community outreach efforts in the area of spatial analysis and spatial science. Many UC Merced faculty are engaged in spatial sciences including historians and archaeologists, social and cognitive scientists, engineers, computer scientists, environmental scientists, and biologists. SpARC’s mission extends across all three academic Schools and has connections with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Great Valley Center, Yosemite National Park, the Center for the Study of Health Disparities, and the Division of Administration. SpARC aims to foster new intellectual collaboration, stimulate new sources of funding, further innovative and original research, supply research techniques and services to faculty groups, perform services and outreach to the public and support student learning.