Troy Tucker, PhD
Troy is a sponsored programs and research administrator trained in human ecology and
anthropology. He received a BA from the University of Utah and an MS and PhD from
the University of New Mexico. His past anthropological research includes demographic
and ethnographic studies among native hunter-gatherers in Venezuela, agricultural
villagers in Tanzania, swidden agriculturalists in Madagascar, native Americans in
California and Nevada, and New Mexican men, as well as archaeological excavation,
site survey and lab analysis in seven western US states.
His research spans foraging theory, demography, risk analysis, and human perception
of risk and uncertainty, including work in human and ecological risk assessment for
the US EPA, extreme engineering uncertainty propagation tools for NASA, and uncertainty
visualization and analysis technology for the pharmaceutical industry. He organized
a National Science Foundation conference on risk perception and communication and
edited the proceedings for the New York Academy of Sciences. At Suffolk County Community
College for the last eight years, he currently serves as College Associate Dean for
Sponsored Programs.
Specialties: grant writing, research administration, project management, data analysis,
statistics, mathematical modeling, quantitative and qualitative risk analysis, uncertainty
analysis, software development, research project design.