Eric Mueller will be joining PERC as an intern for the summer of 2022. He is a senior at the University of Florida, completing a degree in Forestry with an emphasis in Business. Eric spent two summers working for Wiregrass Ecological Associates (WEA) in Bainbridge, Georgia. His primary responsibilities included translocating and radio-tracking gopher tortoises. Additionally,Continue reading “Eric Mueller”
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Hunter Parker
Hunter Parker will be joining PERC as an intern for the summer of 2022. He is a graduate student at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University studying Public Policy Analysis. He graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Management. Hunter hasContinue reading “Hunter Parker”
Ashley Larsen
Ashley Larsen’s research interests center on the ecology of managed systems. Her research combines insights from ecology with causal inference and GIS tools to better understand how to produce the necessary food and fiber for a growing population while maintaining healthy ecological and human communities. Her current projects focus on the landscape determinants of ecosystemContinue reading “Ashley Larsen”
Claire Powers
Claire received an M.S. in Environmental Science & Management from the University of California Santa Barbara. She received her B.S. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of California Santa Cruz. She is enrolled in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Brenna Jungers
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”
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”