Larry Hamilton
Senior Fellow
Lawrence Hamilton is Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He has written widely about statistical methods in articles and books such as Modern Data Analysis (1990), Regression with Graphics (1992), and six editions of Statistics with Stata (1990–2006). Currently, his work involves applications of analytical graphics, as well as dynamic and multilevel models that integrate data from both social and natural sciences.
Integration across social and natural science has been a common theme in Dr. Hamilton’s research on environment and social change. Since 1992 he has conducted interdisciplinary studies around the circumpolar North, supported by a series of grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Results from this work include case studies and comparative overviews of resource-dependent communities in Alaska, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway. He has been an active participant in many national and international working groups on the human dimensions of Arctic environmental change, and is a member of the Polar Research Board of the U.S. National Academies. Recently, Hamilton began applying a similarly cross-disciplinary perspective to research in the lower 48 states, such as the impacts of climate change on New England winter tourism.
Selected articles and further information about Hamilton’s research can be obtained from his personal home page at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~lch/