2024 PERC Visiting Fellows
Lone Mountain Fellows
Rosa Brooks
Georgetown Law
Research topic: All the Way to Heaven and All the Way to Hell: Land, Power, and Belonging in the American West
Danae Hernandez-Cortes
Arizona State University
Research topic: Designing Environmental Trading Systems to Address Environmental Inequities
Madeline Kass
Seattle University School of Law
Research topic: Comparative Approaches to Species Protection: How at-risk species make the cut for (and get cut from) legal protection in the U.S. and E.U.
Michel Kohl
University of Georgia
Research topic: Quantifying urban wildlife habitat in a rapidly changing world
Christian Langpap
Oregon State University
Research topic: Do environmental groups mitigate free-riding in transboundary pollution?
David Molitor
University of Illinois
Research topic: Evaluating the effectiveness and equity of U.S. federal policy to provide clean drinking water
Stephen Newbold
University of Wyoming
Research topic: The effect of congestion on the demand for visits to Yellowstone National Park
Sarah Null
Utah State University
Research topic: Barriers to water markets and transfers in the Great Salt Lake basin
Joseph Price
Bringham Young University
Research topic: The economics and historical roots of alfalfa farming in Utah
Graduate Fellows
Andie Creel
Yale University
Research topic: Natural capital accounting of recreation in urban green space
Garrett Shost
University of Wisconsin Madison
Research topic: The effects of conservation easements on real estate prices and development
Frederik Strabo
University of California, Davis
Research topic: Wildfires, Fuel Treatments, and Endangered Ecosystems: Identifying the Economic Benefits of Fuel Treatments Through Endangered Species Performance
Sandy Sum
University of California, Santa Barbara
Research topic: Distributional consequences of agricultural groundwater markets in California