Science and technology, productivity, cooperatives. Examples of recent studies include:

• Decision making in the university life-science laboratory
• Returns to life-science investment
• Evaluating research grant-funding programs
• International agricultural productivity

• Economics of climate change
• Carbon sequestration
• Integrated policy analysis and tradeoff assessment
• Integrating science and economics in addressing issues of sustainable agricultural policies in both developed and developing countries

• Regional development
• Land use

• Horticultural economics
• Biofuels
• Financial mathematics

• Agricultural and natural resource policy
• Alternative agriculture systems
• Water use/quality

• Domestic and international marketing of food and agricultural products
• Recent research and extension projects: Organic purchase shares · Willingness to Pay for Ecolabels · Local food definition · Impact of wine closure on wine choice and value · Oregon Artisan Cheese survey · State Meat Inspection survey

• Agri-business/management
• Finance
• Commodity futures and options markets and risk management
• Decision-making under uncertainty
• Agricultural marketing and price analysis

• 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.

• Productivity analysis
• Microeconomic theory
• Mathematical economics

• 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.

• Agribusiness management
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• Current research interests include identifying factors which influence student retention and areas related to agricultural marketing and livestock production and marketing.

• Supply chains for alternative agriculture and food production, focus on livestock products
• Certification programs for sustainable agriculture.
• Greenhouse gas footprints of different meat production systems.
• Recent research examined barriers to increased scale in grass-fed and organic beef production.
• Co-coordinator of Niche Meat Processing Assistance Network

• Marine economics
• Economics of fishery management and common property resources
• 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.

• Economic policy
• Applied welfare analysis
• 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.

• Economics of endangered species conservation
• Private enforcement of environmental regulations
• Land use
• Biofuel and crop choice
• Environmental and health implications of households' choice of cooking fuels

• Farmers markets and other direct marketing channels
• Values-based agricultural supply chains
• Sustainable agriculture
• International development
• Participatory research and outreach methods

• Transportation economics
• Applied microeconomics
• Analysis of government regulation/policy
• Retail gasoline pricing
• Distributional effects of changing from a gasoline tax to a vehicle-mile tax
• Impact of domestic code share agreements and mergers on airline competitiveness

• Production and farm management economics
• Agricultural policy
• Agricultural finance and water resource management
• Farm asset depreciation
• Groundwater pollution
• Impact of taxation policy on competitiveness in trade

• Economics of land use
• Climate change
• Forests
• Biodiversity conservation
• Dynamic models of optimal resource use

• International Commodity Markets
• Consumer Preferences and International Trade
• Marketing in Niche Market Channels
• Measurement of International Trade Costs
• International Agricultural Development

• Head advisor for academic programs
• Assistant to the Director of Applied Economics Graduate Program

• Klamath County Agriculture Economic values and impacts.
• Public Policy Impact Analysis
• Sustainable Communities
• Risk Management
• Generational Transitions of Farms and Ranches

• Extension and research efforts focus on assisting agricultural producers manage risk.
• Developing cost of production and cost of establishment studies.

• The International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade IIFET is a global association for fisheries economists in academia, trade, government, and international organizations.
• The North American Association of Fisheries Economists NAAFE is a regional organization with similar goals.

• Economic impacts of policy options for state and local government agencies and organizations in Eastern Oregon.
• Helps local communities increase their economic resilience with programs focusing on business retention and how individual businesses can compete with larger retailers.

• Seafood marketing
• Fisheries policy
• Bioeconomic modeling
• Aquacultural business economics
• Aquacultural policy

• 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.

• Optimal design of agri-environmental policy
• Land use change and its environmental and socioeconomic consequences
• Interaction between agricultural production and water quality
• Rural-urban interdependency
• Natural resource conservation and regional economic development
• Spatial modeling of natural resource use and policy
• Trade, globalization and environment

• Active research on Alaskan fisheries
• Resource and environmental issues
• Economic effects of air and water pollution, global climate change and the valuation of nonmarket commodities

• Economic information - county ag estimates.
• Electronic information - http://oain.oregonstate.edu
• Educational programming - new/reorganizing ag cooperatives.
• Educational programming - specialty crop market development.

• Resource economics
• Rural studies
• Economic methodology

• Marine economics
• Price analysis
• Research includes analysis of seafood demand, relationship between fishery management and international seafood markets, the economics of alternative pricing strategies.

• Retired in the Spring of 2007.
• Served as graduate coordinator
• September 2000, he moved to the Graduate School.