Roger Sambrook PhD : Research

My research is in the following main areas :

Incident Management Systems & Emergency Management

I work with the Geo Integration Office at the United States Air Force Space Command on developing functional requirements for emergency management systems. I'm currently writing up an Air Force wide survey on Incident / Emergency management needs with respect to data fusion technology - basically the Information & Communications Systems they need to do their job in an emergency situation. This work is of great interest to the Pentagon. This has yielded a number of white papers that have been widely circulated within the Air Force. The US Air Force is currently looking to acquire a standard software solution for Emergency Management, so this study could help save them money - and save lives too !

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in the USAF

My other work with the Air Force GeoIntegration Office has been on GeoBase - their base spatial management GIS system (mapping, asset tracking etc.). I collaborated with Scott Trimboli and Paddington Hodza (Geography Dept.) to create a GIS masters track in Engineering Management (and a GIS certificate program) aimed at DoD & especially Air Force students. Currently no such educational solution exists within the Air Force.

Psychology and Terrorism

Earlier this year I was asked to write a textbook titled "Psychology & Terrorism" by Blackwell Publishers (a major academic book publisher). I'm writing the book in collaboration with Dr Elena Mastors at the Naval War College. It is aimed at lower division undergraduates and aims to provide insight into a range of issues in terrorism through the lens of psychology.

Root Causes of Terrorism

This year myself and Steve Radil (my former advisee & CHS student assistant) have had two conference presentations and a paper on the root causes of terrorism. Steve is at the University of Illinois in the Geography department - so this makes for some great interdisciplinary research. We look at socio-economic root-causes of terrorism, the geography of political violence and many other issues in this area.

Publications (as of June 2008)

Sambrook, R.C. (July 2000). Fractal Distribution of human settlements in the United States. Abstract, 10^th conference of the Society for Chaos theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
Sambrook, R.C. & Voss, RF. (2001). Fractal analysis of US settlement patterns. Fractals, 9 (3).
Sambrook, RC. (August 2001). Physical Factors in fractal settlement patterns. Abstract presented at the 11^th conference of the Society for Chaos theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Madison, WI.
Sambrook, R. C. (May 2002). Pattern and process in settlement and population: Applications of scaling and multi-fractals in Geography. Presented at NCGIA, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
Sambrook, R. C. (March 2003). Applications of fractals and scaling in population and settlement analysis. Presentation, 99^th Association of American Geographers meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Harlin, J, Sambrook, R.C., Wright, C. (2003) Temperature trend patterns in the US (refereed article). Applied Geography Conference Proceedings, Boulder CO.
Sambrook, R.C. (2004). Applications of GIS in Engineering. American Society of Civil Engineers.
Sambrook, R.C. Salamone, T. (2004) An examination of fluoride levels in Nevada water supplies. Technical report for the Nevada State Department of Health.
Sambrook, R. C. (2005) Multi-fractal validation of settlement models. Abstract presented at Society for Chaos theory in psychology & the life sciences. Denver, CO.
Sambrook, R. C. (2005) GIS & Homeland Security : The Case for Colorado. GIS in the Rockies, Denver CO
Sambrook, R. C., Farrar, K. (2005) Geographic Information Systems applied to the United States Fencing Association Membership Database. Technical Report for USFA.
Farrar, K., Sambrook, R. C. (2005). Analysis of Global patterns of terrorism using ArcGIS. Research Presentation - US Air Force Academy GIS Day, Colorado Springs.
MacMillan, K. & Sambrook R.C. (2006) Dynamics of Self-Attention: Contemplating Social Interaction Forges Coherence in Self-Structure. 18^th Association for Psychological Science Convention, New York.
Roger Sambrook, R., Maleckova, J., Pick, T., Sandler, T., Schmid, A., Stohl, M. Conflict Prevention And Conflict Resolution: Recommendations For Diplomatic, Political, Military, Economic, Legal And Human Rights Policies Likely To Prevent Or Resolve Tension Provoking Conflict, in Victoroff, J. (2006) Tangled Roots: Social and Psychological Factors in the Genesis of Terrorism, IOS Press, Washington DC.
Sambrook, R. C. (2006), Terrorism, personality profiling & assessment. Invited workshop for Defense Policy Analysis Office, US Department of Homeland Security. Washington DC
Sambrook, R. C. & Radil, S. R. (2007) , The abode of war? The relationship between terrorism and Islam, accepted by The Pennsylvania Geographer. Spring 2007.

Sambrook, R. C. (2007). Profiling a terrorist. In Activepsych: Classroom Activities Projects and Video Teaching Modules. New York : Worth Publishers

Robillard, J; Scott, L.; Bolish, S.; Sambrook, R. (2007) Commercial Emergency Management Software, Evaluation Methods and Findings. Air Force office of GeoIntegration White Paper.
Sambrook, R. C. (2007). An Assessment of Emergency Operations Center Current Technologies. White Paper for the United States Space Command.

Clarke, J. L., & Sambrook, R. C. (2007) A review of emergency operations center and crisis control software. White Paper US Air Force Office of GeoIntegration

Sambrook R. C. (2008). Spatial behavior analysis at the global level using fractal geometry. Nonlinear dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences, Spring 2008.

Sambrook R. C. & Radil, S.R. (in submission) Quantitative analysis of developmental factors in terrorism. Submitted to Terrorism and Political Violence

Radil, S. R. & Sambrook, R. C. (2008) Development as security? An analysis of relationships between human development and terrorism. Paper presented at the 2008 Annual conference of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA.

Sambrook, R. C. & Companion, M. (2008). Investigating Sex-Based Differences in Computer Game Role Selection, Presentation at the 20^th Annual Association for Psychological Science conference, Chicago, Il.

Companion, M. & Sambrook, R. C. (2008) The Influence of Gender on Character Attribute Preferences. Cyberpsychology & Behavior
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Sambrook, R.C. (2008) The relationship between Psychology Socio-economic development and Terrorism. Presented at the 7th Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Chicago, IL.

Sambrook, R.C. & Mastors, E. (2009) Psychology and Terrorism.Blackwell, UK.