Valuing Diversity

This project's goal is to advance the literature on the value of diversity for academic and corporate organizations, especially those related to science, engineering, and technology.

Projects while at MSU:

Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership

CASMGS

Climate Change and GHG Mitigation

Women in Research & Teaching

Education:

Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of California-Davis, 1982

Biographical Sketch

Susan Capalbo accepted the position of Department Head for the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University July 1, 2008.

Dr. Capalbo has been involved in the economics of climate change, carbon sequestration and integrated policy analysis and tradeoff assessment for the past 15 years. While at Montana State University, she was the Director of the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership. The Partnership is addressing the opportunities and challenges for carbon sequestration in both geological and terrestrial sinks. The pilot and large scale injection demonstration tests are the hallmark of the seven DOE partnerships and include detailed monitoring, measurement, and validation analyses as well as economic assessments of costs of CCS and regulatory, risk management and legal issues associated with long term storage. The Partnership reflects collaboration among research institutions, industry, and state and environmental agencies in WA, OR, ID, MT and WY region, and with international partners in Canada and Norway. Complimentary to the efforts on geological sequestration, Dr. Capalbo was the PI for the MSU CASMGS effort (2002-2006), a multi-year nine institution effort to address terrestrial sequestration of GHG funded through USDA. She served on the Executive Committee for the CASMGS efforts and is currently working with private foundations and government agencies to extend the research and outreach efforts for carbon offsets and terrestrial sequestration throughout the West.

In addition to the recent 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. Her research on conceptual frameworks for disciplinary integration and policy analysis has been funded by NSF, Rockefeller Foundation, USDA and USAID.

Dr. Capalbo has developed an extensive program in the area of interdisciplinary science research and promoting women in the research arena. As the Director of Special Projects in the MSU VPR Office, Dr. Capalbo has written and been awarded several diversity and social science research collaborative grants from NSF. She was the PI for an NSF ADVANCE Leadership Award to advance women as research leaders, the PI on a second NSF grant to quantify the value of diversity in the STEM disciplines. She was awarded a pre Marie Thorpe Fellowship through the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the NSF ADVANCE program to integrate her research and leadership in area of climate change and economics of clean coal technology on a national and global basis.

Dr. Capalbo received her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California-Davis in 1982. She is currently on the faculty at OSU, Department Head and Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. While at MSU she was the Director of Special Research Projects in the Office of the Vice President for Research, Creativity and Technology Transfer and a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.

Recent trip around Oregon.

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