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PREISM 2008
PRESENTERS/DISCUSSANTS
BIOS
Edward B. Barbier is the John S. Bugas Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming. Dr. Barbier's work focuses on the economics of natural resources and development, as well as valuing ecosystem services. He has also published extensively on the economics of biological invasions, including the accidental introduction of plant invasives by the horticultural industry.
Anton Bekkerman is a graduate student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He completed his undergraduate degree in business economics at Loyola College of Maryland in 2005. His current research interests include economic impacts of invasive species, price and basis analysis in agricultural markets, and applied econometrics. Anton will be joining the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University in August 2009.
Daniel B. Botkin, The New York Times has called Daniel B. Botkin “one of the world's leading environmental researchers,” who has “done much to popularize the concept of using yet maintaining the world's natural resources.” Within ecology, Botkin is perhaps best known for the development of the first successful many-species computer simulation, a computer model of forest growth in use worldwide; and one of the major methods to forecast possible effects of global warming on forest. His research includes studies of threatened and endangered species: whooping cranes, salmon, bowhead/sperm whales, and African elephants, as well as, analysis and forecasts of possible effects of global warming on such species. He has written widely including articles on invasive species, on a planetary perspectives on life and on fundamental concepts of stability and sustainability of ecological systems. His most influential book, Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press 1990- and 1992), has helped change the way the scientists, citizens, agencies, and corporations view environmental issues. According to the N.Y. Times, this book “is considered by many ecologists to be the classic text of the [environmental] movement.” He is Professor (Emeritus) University of California, Santa Barbara, and President of the nonprofit “Center for the Study of the Environment.”
Blondel Brinkman is an economist with the Policy Analysis and Development Unit of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS). Since joining APHIS, Blondel has worked on various analyses involving invasive species. Blondel's primary research interest is biotechnology. Blondel obtained her Ph.D. in agricultural/applied economics from Purdue University in 2006.
Kerry Britton earned a Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Georgia, and has worked as a Forest Pathologist with the USDA Forest Service for 19 years. Her invasive species research topics were dogwood anthracnose, and later biological control of kudzu. As National Program Leader for Forest Pathology Research her main interests are in reducing the movement of pests in international trade, on wood packing materials and plants for planting.
Sean Cash is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta (Canada) and a Faculty Associate in the Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on resource management, food, and health. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in agricultural and resource economics from The University of California at Berkeley, as well as an M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University.
Keith Coble is a Professor in the Agricultural Economics Department at Mississippi State University. Dr. Coble came to Mississippi State in 1997 after serving as a Section Leader at USDA's Economic Research Service. Because of his agricultural risk and policy research, Coble has been called to testify before congressional committees on three occasions. In particular, Dr. Coble has published numerous papers on agricultural risk management and insurance. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Kelly Cobourn is a Ph.D. candidate in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis. Before coming to Davis, Kelly earned an M.S. in resource economics and policy from the University of Maine.
Neilson C. Conklin was named President of Farm Foundation in January 2008. Dr. Conklin previously served as Director of the Market and Trade Economics Division of USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS). In that role, he initiated the ERS research program on the economics of bio-energy, and directed development of new modeling frameworks on global trade policy analysis. Before joining ERS in 1999, he spent six years at the Farm Credit Council as Vice President and Chief Economist worked at the Office of Management and Budget, and had teaching assignments at Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Colorado State University.
Joseph Cooper is a Senior Economist in the Market and Trade Economics Division of ERS, where he is conducting research on farm policy issues. From July 2005 to July 2006, Joe served as the Senior Economist in charge of agriculture and natural resources issues on the White House's Council of Economic Advisors. Prior to that, he served as a Deputy Director in the Economics Division at ERS. Before that, Joe was an economist in the Resource and Environmental Policy Branch in the Resource Economics Division at ERS, where his research covered such topics as the economics of agri-environmental programs, non-market valuation, and the economics of the conservation of agricultural genetic resources. He has also worked as an economist for the Food and Agricultural Organizations of the United Nations. Joe has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis.
Alan Dowdy is a native of Wyoming and received his graduate degrees in entomology from Oklahoma State University. He worked briefly as an Analytical Entomologist with the Food and Drug Administration in Brooklyn, New York before joining the USDA'S Agricultural Research Service in Manhattan, Kansas. In 2000, Dr. Dowdy came to APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine in the Center for Plant Health Science and Technology. He first served as the National Science Program Leader for Agricultural Quarantine Inspection and Port Technology then as the Center's Associate Director. Dr. Dowdy was the Deputy Director of the ARS Office of International Research Programs in 2007, where he was responsible for daily operations and had primary oversight of the Agency's overseas biological control laboratories. Presently, he is the Director of Invertebrate and Biological Control Programs in APHIS-PPQ's Emergency and Domestic Programs where he provides national leadership for invasive invertebrate regulatory programs.
Eli Fenichel is an Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University. Eli's research is on jointly determined ecology-economics systems with a focus on fisheries and wildlife management and conservation. Recent work has focused on the management of wildlife-livestock disease, invasive species, and Great Lakes fisheries. He is also interested in the value and opportunity cost of information.
Linda Fernandez is Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at University of California, Riverside. She conducts research in the area of economic incentives to address transboundary pollution such as invasive species from internationally traded agricultural products.
Frank Fillo is Assistant Chief of the Policy Analysis and Development Staff of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, where he has worked for 16 years. Prior to employment with APHIS, he was a managing associate with Nathan Associates, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Florida.
Carolyn Fischer is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on policy mechanisms and modeling tools that cut across environmental issues, including environmental policy design and technological change, international trade and environmental policies, and resource economics. In areas of natural resource management, her research addresses issues of wildlife conservation, invasive species, and biotechnology, with particular emphasis on the opportunities and challenges posed by international trade. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in international relations and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
William F. Hahn is an economist working for the USDA'S Economic Research Service (ERS). He has worked at ERS since 1986 and is co-leader of the Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management (PREISM).
Frances Homans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California at Davis. She is affiliated with Minnesota's NSF-IGERT Graduate Training Grant in Risk Analysis for Introduced Species and Genotypes. Besides her work on invasive species management, she has focused on land preservation in urban landscapes and the economics of fisheries management.
Frank Lupi is a Natural Resource and Environmental Economist and an Associate Professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics and in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Lupi serves as the economist in the Partnership for Ecosystem Research and Management (PERM), a collaborative effort between scientists at Michigan State University and resource management agencies in the Great Lakes region. Lupi's applied research addresses recreational fisheries, wildlife management, ecosystem services, invasive species, water quality, and wetlands.
Lori Lynch is a Professor and Extension Economists in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at the University of Maryland. She is also the Director of the Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996 and an M.A. from the University California, Davis in 1989. She has published on invasive species issues, coordinated an invasive species workshop and co-edited a special issue journal on the topic.
Richard N. Mack is a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University. For approximately the last 30 years, his research has been largely devoted to the ecology of invasive species. Much of his research has dealt with the aggressive invader, Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass or downy brome) in the Intermountain West (USA). He has also investigated plant invasions in Hawaii, the southeastern U.S. and China. He is particularly interested in the population biology of plant invaders and their environmental effects. He has framed much of his research with the goal of addressing applied aspects of combating invasive species, including the prediction of future invasive species and their early detection and eradication. He served as Chair of the Department of Botany at Washington State University, 1986-1999. He served as Chair from 1999-2001 for the National Research Council's Committee for “Predicting the Invasive Potential of Non-indigenous Plants and Plant Pests in the United States.” He has served on the editorial boards of Ecology & Ecological Monographs, Oecologia, Ecological Applications and Biological Invasions. Until recently, he served on the SCOPE (Scientific Committee for Problems in the Environment) Executive Committee and a member of the Board for the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). He is currently a member of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) specialist group on invasive species. He earned a PhD from Washington State University in 1971.
Dr. Bruce Maxwell is Professor of Agroecology/Weed Ecology in the Department of and Resources and Environmental Science at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Recently, he was appointed as Interim Department Head. Bruce came to Montana, State University in 1992 from the University of Minnesota; he holds a Ph.D. in crop science and forest ecology from Oregon State University. Dr. Maxwell was instrumental in the formation of the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science and has received national awards for outstanding teaching, best peer reviewed paper and outstanding graduate student from the Weed Science Society of America. During his career he has published over eighty scientific journal articles and book chapters, chaired and been a member on numerous agricultural and ecological research grant review panels and has been a member of two National Research Council Committees on Agriculture.
L. Joe Moffitt is a Professor at Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A significant amount of his more than 25 years of research has been on the economics of crop protection, with special emphasis on new technology and biosecurity. His research and publications address topics such as the economics of pest control, integrated pest management, and pest detection and surveillance. Dr. Moffitt earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979.
Craig Osteen is co-leader of the Economic Research Service's Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management extramural competitive awards program. He has worked at ERS for over 25 years, and is currently assigned to the Resource and Rural Economics Division. An important focus in his work has been the economics and policy of invasive species management, as well as pesticide use and pest management.
Phillip L. Paarlberg is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. He has been with Purdue University since 1985. From 1977 – 1985 he worked for the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the areas of trade policy and international commodity analysis.
His teaching responsibilities include agricultural policy and international trade. His recent research examines the economic impacts of livestock disease outbreaks on U.S. agriculture.
Dustin Pendell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics at Colorado State University. In his current position, Dr. Pendell teaches undergraduate courses in agricultural marketing and agribusiness management. In addition to teaching, Dr. Pendell's current research interests include animal identification/traceability systems, invasive species management, and livestock marketing.
Glenn Sheriff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to Columbia, he conducted research at the World Bank, Institute National de la Recherché Agronomique, USDA Economic Research Service, Inter-American Investment Corporation, and the Inter-American Development Bank. Professor Sheriff earned his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Maryland.
Kay Walker Simmons is National Program Leader for Plant Genetics and Grain Crops, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS). Dr. Simmons leads ARS National Programs for Plant Biological and Molecular Processes and Plant Genetic Resources, Genomics, and Genetic Improvement, and represents ARS on the USDA Biotechnology Coordination Committee, Borlaug Global Rust Initiative, and National Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee. She has authored over 65 publications in plant molecular and seed biology, received the Arthur Flemming Award (Science) for Outstanding Service in the Federal Government (1997) and was Scientist of the Year, USDA-ARS Pacific West Area (1999).
Utpal Vasavada is Chief of the production Economics and Technology Branch in the Economic Research Service's Resource and Rural Economics Division. The Branch serves as a focal point of ERS research on the economics of invasive species management, organic agriculture, agricultural land use, and database development through the Agricultural Resource Management Survey. Before joining ERS, Utpal worked at Laval University and the University of Georgia.
James Wilen is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Director of the Center for Natural Resource Policy Analysis at University of California, Davis. His research interests cover a broad span of environmental and resource topics and his most recent work focuses on spatial-dynamic
processes.
Jeffrey Williams is a professor and holds the Daniel Barton DeLoach Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California-Davis, and is Director of the Gianini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. His research interests include price relationships among markets, such as arbitrage connections for the same commodity among different locations or different delivery dates, and the institutional features of markets, such as swap and future markets that deal with variability in commodity supplies. He received a PhD at Yale University in 1980.
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