Shuang Song, Ph.D.

👋 Hello! I’m Shuang Song, a postdoctoral researcher at Beijing Normal University and Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. My research primarily uses water as a link and modeling as an approach to studying the interaction between human society and the landscape and environment as an intertwined social-ecological system (SES). Based on my interdisciplinary background in history and geography, I construct agent-based models (ABMs) for water-related issues, simulating agents’ interaction within given institutional and environmental settings across different temporal (e.g., centuries and millennia) and spatial scales (regional and global). I also examine how institutions can influence this interaction by changing human society’s adaptation and resilience to environmental changes, thereby contributing to sustainable development.

Beyond research, I’m an adept Python developer and led open-source projects ABSESpy, a ABM package for real-world SES simulation; and PaperBell, a note taking system for academic research based on Obsidian.

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Interests
  • social-ecological system
  • social-hydrology
  • agent-based model
  • historical geography
  • humanity geography
  • institutional analysis
Education
  • Ph.D. of Physical Geography, 2018-2023

    Beijing Normal University

  • Study of History (2nd Major), 2014-2018

    Sun Yat-Sen University

  • B.S. of Physical Geography, 2014-2018

    Sun Yat-Sen University

Employment History

 
 
 
 
 
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Postdoc Scholarship
Oct 2024 – Present Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena.
Working on Hydrosphere and urbanism interaction project
 
 
 
 
 
Beijing Normal University
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jul 2023 – Present Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province.
Working on Yellow River Basin project and ABSESpy project

Publications

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(2023). ABSESpy: An agent-based modeling framework for social-ecological systems. JOSS.

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(2022). Decreased Virtual Water Outflows from the Yellow River Basin Are Increasingly Critical to China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

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(2021). The responses of Spinifex littoreus to sand burial on the coastal area of Pingtan Island, Fujian Province, South China. Ecoscience.

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(2020). Improving Representation of Collective Memory in Socio-hydrological Models and New Insights into Flood Risk Management. Journal of Flood Risk Management.

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(2020). Sediment Transport under Increasing Anthropogenic Stress: Regime Shifts within the Yellow River, China. Ambio.

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Coding Skills

python
Python

I master programming in Python for years. Recently, I work on an open-sourced package ABSESpy.

latex
LaTex

I am proficient in using LaTeX for papers.

gis
GIS

Proficient in geographic information tools QGIS and ArcGIS.

netlogo
Netlogo

The most classic agent-based modeling software, but I now think mesa and ABSESpy are better.

remote_sensing
Remote Sensing

I can analyze raster datasets with popular packages like xarray, rasterio, gdal.

visualization
DataViz

I’m passionate about making beautiful charts.

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