My research and teaching interests are in the area of Natural Resources and Environmental Economics.  I have worked on problems associated with allocation of public goods, mechanisms to align social and private incentives, and non-market valuation.  Applied work has provided opportunities for me to work side-by side with ecologists and other natural scientists, policy-makers, resource managers and others working in fields related to natural resources and environment.  Some of these applications include: Invasive annual grasses and wildfire, valuation of environmental goods and services, landowner and wildlife conflicts, protected areas in the Northwest Territories, backcountry canoeing in Ontario, Aboriginal fishery management on the Great Lakes, optimal incentives for private users of public forests, management of parks and protected areas, green consumer products, groundwater protection, and municipal water system financing.

• RECO 100  Society and the Economic Value of Nature
• RECO 202  Natural Resources, Environment and Economy
• RECO 240  Environmental Economics
• RECO 466  Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Policy General Capstone
• RECO 666  Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Policy
• RECO 710  Microeconomic Theory I
• RECO 760  Natural Resource Economics
• RECO 761  Environmental Economics

Currently Director of Graduate Studies for the MS and PhD programs offered through the Department. 

National and International Honors Awarded to Graduate Student Supervisees 

Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award – Jeremy Brown, for his thesis “Value of Weather Services produced by Environment Canada’s Meteorological Services,” by the Canadian Agricultural and Farm Management Society, 2003. 

Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award - Lori Heigh, for her thesis “Landowners preferences and tolerance thresholds for wildlife damage on private lands” by the Canadian Agricultural and Farm Management Society, 2002. 

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honourable Mention –  Anne Huennemeyer, for her dissertation “Habitat Procurement under Asymetric Information: Optimal Incentives for Biological Diversity Preservation in Ontario Crown Forests,” by the Canadian Agricultural and Farm Management Society, 2002. 

Outstanding Masters Thesis Award – Alexandra Beckett, for her thesis “Green Consumerism, Perception versus Reality: The Case of Apple Juice,” by the Canadian Agricultural and Farm Management, 1999. 

Outstanding Masters Thesis Award – Caroline Gunning-Trant, for her thesis “Measuring the Existence Values of National Parks in the Northwest Territories” by the American Agricultural Economics Association, 1997. 

Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Honourable Mention – The Gunning-Trant thesis was also awarded Honourable Mention by the Canadian Agricultural and Farm Management Society, 1997. 

Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Honourable Mention – William Wistowsky, for his thesis, “Benefits of Backcountry Canoeing in Ontario Wilderness Parks” by the Canadian Agricultural and Farm Management Society, 1995. 

Outstanding Agricultural Economics Dissertation, Awarded by the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) in August 1991 for “Agriculture and Wildlife: From Principal-Agent Theory to a Wisconsin Economic Policy".

Best Journal Article Honorable Mention, Awarded by the Canadian Agricultural Economics Association, July 1998 for Rollins, Kimberly, William Wistowsky and Michael Jay, “Wilderness Canoeing in Ontario: Using Cumulative Results to Update Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Offer Amounts.”