Aaron Hipp

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Bio

Education

University of California, Irvine. Ph.D. 2009

• Social Ecology

Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. B.S. 2000

• Biology

Current Research Interests

• How, where, and why our public built environments impact health behaviors such as physical activity and recreation.
• Use of emerging technologies and crowdsourcing to study the interaction between built environments and community health behaviors.
• Understanding and improving spatial uncertainty in built environment and physical activity research.
• How programs such as Open Streets and Ciclovias help activate public built environments and potentially increase healthy and sustainable behaviors.
• The effect of the environment where we spend most of our time (work/school and sleep) on leisure time physical activity.

Recent Courses Taught

• PRT 504: Data Management and Evaluation in Parks, Recreation Tourism & Sport

 

Publications

• Applying Systems Thinking Approaches to Address Preventive Health Factors through Public Parks and Recreation Agencies , JOURNAL OF PARK AND RECREATION ADMINISTRATION (2022)
• Cultivating social capital in diverse, low-income neighborhoods: The value of parks for parents with young children , LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING (2022)
• GIS&T in Recreation Planning and Management , Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (2022)
• GPS-based activity space exposure to greenness and walkability is associated with increased accelerometer-based physical activity , ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL (2022)
• Frequency of Neighborhood Park Use Is Associated With Physical Activity Among Adults in Four US Cities , JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & HEALTH (2021)
• Land use diversity and park use in New York City , PREVENTIVE MEDICINE REPORTS (2021)
• Measuring Nature Contact: A Narrative Review , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH (2021)
• The association between neighborhood quality, youth physical fitness, and modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors , ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY (2021)
• Urban Park Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are Socially Vulnerable Communities Disproportionately Impacted? , FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE CITIES (2021)
• Automated High-Frequency Observations of Physical Activity Using Computer Vision , MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE (2020)

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