AREc Faculty

Richard M. Adams  - Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1975. Link to Dr. Adam's Resume. Resource and environmental issues, including the economic effects of air and water pollution, global climate change and the valuation of nonmarket commodities. Teaches a graduate course in environmental economics and a course on environmental and resource economics for advanced undergraduates and graduate students with limited background in economic theory. Has published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Nature, and Water Resources Research. Served as co-editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and is a member of various government committees dealing with climate change and other environmental issues.

Steven T. Buccola - Professor. Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1976. Economics of science and technology, productivity growth and technical change, agricultural biotechnology, economics of cooperatives. Teaches advanced microeconomic theory. Latest research topics include sources of innovation in bioscience and biotechnology, determinants of bioscience research objectives in U.S. universities, impacts of pollution regulations on productivity growth, and origins of the Tri Valley Growers bankruptcy in California. Published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizationn, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and many other journals. Served as editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and executive board member, American Agricultural Economics Association. Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.

Larry Burt - Associate Professor and Extension Marketing Economist. Ph.D., Washington State University, 1979. Economic Information, agribusiness management, agricultural Finance and agricultural marketing. Teaches a course on agricultural cooperatives and one on agricultural personnel management. His publications have appeared in Journal of Agricultural Cooperation, Journal of Extension, and numerous Extension and popular publications.

Susan Capalbo - Department Head and Professor. Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1982. Economics of climate change, carbon sequestration and integrated policy analysis and tradeoff assessment. In addition to research on climate change and carbon sequestration, Dr. Capalbo has been involved in integrating science and economics in addressing issues of sustainable agricultural policies in both developed and developing countries.

Emery Castle - Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1952. Link to Dr. Castle's Resume. Resource economics, rural studies, economic methodology. Currently, Chair, Independent Economic Advisory Board, Northwest Power Planning Council. Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Doctor of Humane Letters, Iowa State University, 1997 (honorary).

Robin Cross - Post Doctoral Research Associate. Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2004. Recent research topics include horticultural economics, biofuels, and financial mathematics. Research has appeared in Oregon Viticulture and American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Teaching areas include price and market analysis, risk management, and financial reporting and analysis.

Penelope L. Diebel - Associate Professor, OSU Agriculture Program at EOU. PhD, VPI, 1990. Agricultural and natural resource policy, alternative agriculture systems, water use/quality. Teaches natural resource economics, agricultural policy, price analysis and microeconomic theory. Recent publications have appeared in Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Production Economics, and Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. Serving on the Editorial Council of the Review of Agricultural Economics.

Catherine A. Durham - Associate Professor, Food Innovation Center (FIC) in Portland. Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1991. Research interests: domestic and international marketing of food and agricultural products. Recent research projects include studies of Oregon grass seed export market development, agricultural cooperatives overseas marketing strategies, and soybean trade with China. Domestic market studies are focused on food characteristic value: recent subjects include studies of wine closures, French fries, and apples. Ongoing studies examine the impact of eco-labeling and organic labels on retail fresh fruit demand and the motivations of organic buyers. Recent publications have appeared in Agribusiness: An International Journal, the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the American Journal of Potato Research, the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, and the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review.

Thorsten M. Egelkraut - Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005. Agri-business/management, finance, commodity futures and options markets, risk management, decision-making under uncertainty, and agricultural marketing and price analysis. Publications have appeared in the Journal of Environmental Quality, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Agrarwirtschaft, and several others.

Bart Eleveld - Associate Professor and Extension Agricultural Economist. Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1979. Farm management, production economics, and Enterprise Budgets. Extension and applied research programs include farm financial analysis and planning, adoption of management information systems, and farm-level adjustments to regulation and legislation. Authored two modules in the nationally recognized and adopted Business Management in Agriculture videotaped instructional units for farm financial and marketing management and provides state leadership for county Extension programs in this area.

Rolf Färe - Professor (Departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Economics). Docent, University of Lund, Sweden, 1976. Productivity analysis, microeconomic theory, mathematical economics. He has been the editor of Journal of Productivity Analysis and has published numerous books and journal articles on the theory and application of productivity analysis. His work has appeared in such journals as: American Economic Review, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Teaches core courses in the graduate economics program as well as undergraduate economics courses.

Monica Fisher - Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Purdue University, 2002. Research concerns rural poverty, economic development, and deforestation with a geographical focus on the United States, Malawi, Senegal, and the Philippines. Current research projects examine (a) rural-urban migration in the US and its association with the spatial distribution of poverty, (b) how rural households in low-income countries cope with health risk (e.g., malaria), and (c) links between poverty and forest use in tropical countries. Teaches Rural Economic Development and Policy, Environmental Economics, and Spatial Econometrics. Publications have appeared in journals such as Land Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Environment and Development Economics, and International Regional Science Review.

M. Gopinath - Professor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1995. International trade and industrial organization. Current research focuses on firms' decision to export in high- and low-income economies; trade and environmental linkages; factors affecting spatial inequality in economic development; and domestic support (agricultural) policies. Teaches graduate econometrics and international trade classes. Recent publications appear in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Journal of Economics, Applied Economics and several other journals.

Laura Gow - Assistant Professor, OSU Agriculture Program at EOU. Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2000. Agribusiness management. Teaches undergraduate courses in agricultural economics, marketing, management, and finance. Current research interests include identifying factors which influence student retention and areas related to agricultural marketing and livestock production and marketing.

Susan S. Hanna - Professor, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station. Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1981. Marine economics, economics of fishery management and common property resources. Research includes analysis of the economic impact of restricted access systems in linked fisheries, the economic history of Pacific and New England groundfish and a comparative analysis of groundfish management under the New England and Pacific Fishery Management Councils. Serves on the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Scientific and Statistical Committee of the Pacific Fishery Management Council. Member, Board of Trustees, Fishery Management Institute, North Sea Centre; International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP); and International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). Has past affiliations with Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.

William K. Jaeger - Professor and Extension Policy Specialist. Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985. Economic policy, applied welfare analysis and institutional economics. Current interests include interactions between agriculture and the environment (e.g., water allocation between consumptive and instream use), environmental taxation, sustainable development, globalization and trade. Has published in Land Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Natural Resources Journal, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, and other journals. Has served as a consultant to the World Bank.

Richard S. Johnston - Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1970. Marine economics, price analysis. Research includes analysis of seafood demand, relationship between fishery management and international seafood markets, the economics of alternative pricing strategies. Adjunct professor, University of Tromso, Norway. Member of Advisory Board, Marine Resource Economics. Has published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Comparative Economics, Marine Resource Economics, Marine Policy and other journals.

Christian Langpap - Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2003. Research emphasis is on the economics of endangered species conservation, private enforcement of environmental regulations, land use, and the environmental and health implications of households' choice of cooking fuels. Publications have appeared in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, and Environmental and Resource Economics.

Larry S. Lev - Professor and Extension Marketing Economist. Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1984. Field crop marketing, sustainable agriculture, and international development. Extension/research activities focus on decision support system development for commodity marketing management, development of participatory methods for examining natural resource issues, and analysis of government farm programs. Co-leader of the Extension Natural Resource Initiative and a contributor to numerous disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals.

B. Starr McMullen - Professor (Departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Economics). Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1979. Transportation economics, applied microeconomics, analysis of government regulation/policy. Past editor of Research in Transportation Economics and serves on the editorial boards of Transportation Research: Part E and the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum. Current interests include retail gasoline pricing, the distributional effects of changing from a gasoline tax to a vehicle-mile tax, and the impact of domestic code share agreements and mergers on airline competitiveness. Is currently serving a second term as a member of the Oregon Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Gregory M. Perry - Professor. Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1986. Production and farm management economics, agricultural policy, agricultural finance and water resource management. Current research focuses on farm asset depreciation, groundwater pollution and impact of taxation policy on competitiveness in trade. Teaches classes in operations research and advanced production economics, and agricultural financial management. Recent publications have appeared in Review of Economics and Statistics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Economics Letters.

Andrew J. Plantinga - Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1995. Link to Andrew Plantinga's CV. Research emphasis is on the economics of land use, climate change, and forests. Past projects have focused on methods for econometrically modeling land-use decisions, the application of land-use models to environmental and resource policy problems, and the modeling of land development pressures. Current projects analyze the costs of carbon sequestration in forests, ancillary impacts of land-use programs, effects of conservation lands on local economies, and market-level models of optimal resource use under uncertainty. Publications have appeared in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, and the Journal of Urban Economics.

Jeff Reimer - Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Purdue University, 2003. Recent research examines the interaction between climate change and agricultural trade, agricultural policies and poverty, and value-added marketing. Publications have appeared in the Journal of International Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and several others. Teaching is in statistics, econometrics, and international trade.

R. Bruce Rettig - Professor Emeritus

Willie Riggs - County Chair for Klamath County and Superintendent of the Klamath Branch Experiment Station. M.S., New Mexico State University.

W.E. (Ed) Schmisseur - Associate Professor Emeritus.

Clark F. Seavert - Professor and Center Director of the North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Aurora. M.S., University of Idaho, 1988. Extension and research efforts focus on assisting agricultural producers manage risk. The emphasis is to develop decision-making tools and provide training for agricultural producers who manage the financial, marketing, production, and human resource risks associated with ornamental nursery, Christmas trees, berry, wine grape, tree fruits, nut and vegetable crops. This is accomplished by developing cost of production and cost of establishment studies. This information serves as the foundation to assess the profitability and feasibility of growing and establishing crops and implementing technologies that increase efficiencies and improves the environment.

Ann Shriver - Executive Director of International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) and Director of the Business Office of the North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE). M.S., Michigan State University, 1984. IIFET is a global association for fisheries economists in academia, trade, government, and international organizations; NAAFE is a regional organization with similar goals. Manages, coordinates, and implements opportunities for exchange on all seafood and fisheries-related economic topics among researchers from all countries, and across professional lines, at international meetings and through electronic networks, newsletters, etc. Research interests include international groundfish markets, the relationships between management and markets, U.S. demand for groundfish, tuna markets, and the impacts of political changes in the former USSR on international trade in seafood products.

Gilbert R. Sylvia - Professor and Superintendent, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Ph.D., University of Rhode Island, 1989. Research interests focus on seafood marketing, fisheries policy, bioeconomic modeling, aquacultural business economics and aquacultural policy. Much of his research in cooperation with other academic departments, the seafood industry, and the state of Oregon. Has published in various fisheries policy and economics journals.

John A. Tanaka - Associate Professor. Ph.D., Utah State University, 1986. Rangeland economics, natural resource and production economics. Current research includes economic analysis of the joint production of natural resource based products, riparian area/upland management, and public lands policy. Stationed at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in Union, Oregon, where he is part of a four-scientist interdisciplinary team working on livestock grazing interactions with other land uses, environmental impacts, and economics. Has taught in the areas of agribusiness management, natural resource economics, agricultural price analysis and agricultural policy. Serves on the Bureau of Land Management/U.S. Forest Service John Day-Snake Resource Advisory Council, Western Regional Coordinating Committee on Rangeland Economics and Policy, and the Western Region Committee on Rural Communities and Public Lands in the West: Impacts and Alternatives.

Bruce A. Weber - Professor and Extension Economist. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973. Director of the Rural Studies Program, and Co-director of the RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center. Current research projects focus on the causes of poverty and hunger in rural areas, particularly on the interaction of community characteristics, public policy and household economic outcomes for low-income people. Current Extension programs deal with rural policy and the economic and social conditions in rural communities. Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Asssociation, Distinguished Scholar, Western Agricultural Economics Association. Senior Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center. Served on Governor's Tax Review Technical Advisory Committee. Past President of the Western Agricultural Economics Association. Has published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Land Economics.

JunJie Wu - Emery N. Castle Professor of Resource and Rural Economics. Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1992. Link to Dr. Wu's Resume. Current research focuses on a) interactions between agricultural production and water quality, b) optimal design of conservation and environmental policy, and c) land use economics and spatial modeling. Teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental and resource economics. Publications have appeared in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Public Economic Theory, and several other journals.