• Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Washington with a concentration in economics and environmental policy.
• My work at Ecology has been on 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.

Some Recent Highlights

• 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 several articles, and I’m one of many GOA-CLIM co-authors. Here’s the open access link.
• September, 2023. Started a new position as an economist at the Washington State Department of Ecology.
• August, 2023. Presentation of work on collapse of the Pacific cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska at Camp Resources in Asheville, NC.