- I’m interested in using quantitative methods to answer questions in environmental, natural resource, public health, and environmental policy and governance.
- At Ecology, I focus on benefit transfers, hazardous waste and toxics reduction, benefits of non-compliance, and fish valuation.
- My academic research is primarily in the fields of environmental policy and fisheries economics and management.
Personal
- I live in Federal Way, Washington with my wife and two children.
Current Academic Projects
- Fishing portfolios and responses to the collapse of the Pacific cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska.
- Modeling trust in Norwegian fisheries management with Kate Crosman.
- Estimating heterogeneous distributions of willingness to pay for Alaska halibut quota.
- Evaluating Alaska halibut and sablefish quota markets.
Research Highlights
- November, 2024. Pre-print available on SSRN for a new paper currently in review that evaluates how technological solutions to bycatch in the Norwegian Calanus fishery affects trust in fisheries management. “Conflict, Cod and Calanus: Can Technology Increase Trust in Fisheries Management of a Contested Fishery?’’
- March, 2024. Presentation of work on Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod collapse and fishery diversification as part of the shifting stocks session at the World Fisheries Congress in Seattle.
- March, 2024. Article published at Marine Resource Economics with Sunny Jardine and Katy Bland, “Fishing Portfolio Response to a Climate Shock.’’. Open access version.
- January, 2024. Article published at Ocean & Coastal Management with Marysia Szymkowiak and Andrew Steinkruger, “Alaska’s emergent fisheries processes.’’ Open access version.
- January, 2024. Albi Rovellini led the publication of an article in ICES Journal of Marine Science about ongoing Atlantis modeling in the Gulf of Alaska. This is the first of a planned series of papers, and I’m one of many GOA-CLIM co-authors. Here’s the open access link.
- August, 2023. Presentation of work on collapse of the Pacific cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska at Camp Resources in Asheville, NC.
Regulatory Analysis Activities
