Brenna Jungers was a 2022 PERC graduate fellow and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sustainability at Arizona State University. Her research centers on the importance of understanding recreational commons as complex adaptive social-ecological systems when designing policy for their governance. Brenna utilizes a suite of economic modeling and econometric analysis tools in her work. InContinue reading “Brenna Jungers”
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Anouch Missirian
Anouch Missirian was a 2022 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow and is an assistant professor at the Toulouse School of Economics (Toulouse, France). She uses her dual background in ecology and economics to address issues in environmental economics that sit at their interface, such as agriculture and pesticide use, migration and the environment, wildlife conservation andContinue reading “Anouch Missirian”
Ryan Abman
Ryan Abman was a 2022 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and is an assistant professor of Economics at San Diego State University. His research examines the economic drivers of land use change around the world with a particular focus on deforestation. His research has been published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal ofContinue reading “Ryan Abman”
Micah Elias
Micah Elias was a 2022 PERC graduate fellow and is a research fellow at Blue Forest and is working towards a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at U.C. Berkeley. His work focuses on quantifying the water and carbon ecosystem services of healthy forests, particularly by understanding a diverse set of stakeholder needs. HeContinue reading “Micah Elias”
Casey Wichman
Dr. Casey Wichman was a 2022 Lone Mountain fellow and is an assistant professor in the School of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology, a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. His research focuses on how people interact with theContinue reading “Casey Wichman”
Eyal Frank
Eyal Frank was a 2022 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. As an environmental economist, he works at the intersection of ecology and economics. His work addresses three broad questions: (i) how do natural inputs, namely animals, contribute to different production functionsContinue reading “Eyal Frank”
Ivan Rudik
Ivan Rudik was a 2022 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and is the Ruth and William Morgan assistant professor of environmental economics at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He is also a CESifo Research Network Affiliate and received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Arizona. Dr. Rudik’s researchContinue reading “Ivan Rudik”
Kelly Dunning
Dr. Kelly Heber Dunning was a 2022 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and is an assistant professor at Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife and the director of the Conservation Governance Lab. Dr. Dunning holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institution of Technology, an MSc from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. from theContinue reading “Kelly Dunning”
Ben Chenault
Ben was a 2022 PERC graduate fellow and is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Economics Department at the University of Virginia. His research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly in environmental and public economics. His dissertation research is primarily focused understanding the consequences of environmental and economic policy on land use and environmental quality. BenContinue reading “Ben Chenault”
Nathaniel Grimes
Nathaniel Grimes was a 2022 PERC graduate fellow and is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Science and Management at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. His research seeks to close the conservation funding gap in the ocean through the design of new financial tools and investments. Together, through these conservation financing options, Nathaniel hopesContinue reading “Nathaniel Grimes”