She has been working professionally with spatial evolutionary algorithms, location-allocation optimization, and adaptive spatio-temporal relevance filters since the early 1990s, and with spatial agent-based computational laboratories since the late 1990s. She serves on an NRC Committee for Organizational Modeling from Individuals to Societies, and is a co-Investigator with the NIH-funded MIDAS project for controlling epidemics. Dr. Dibble teaches courses in Economic Geography and Computational Laboratories, and leads an active Computational Laboratories research group at the University of Maryland.