2022
- Ben Chenault: University of Virginia
Topic: Stormwater Regulation and Land Use - Micah Elias: University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Leveraging the Economic Benefits of Forest Restoration in the Sierra Nevada to Increase Forest Restoration Funding - Nathaniel Grimes: University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Fisheries Insurance to Reduce Overharvesting Through Positive Behavior Change - Brenna Jungers: Arizona State University
Topic: Program Evaluation of the Lees Ferry Brown Trout Incentivized Harvest Program - Nicole Karwowski: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Topic: A Field-Level Analysis of Easement Effects on Agricultural Yields
2021
- Andrew Earle: Michigan State University
Topic: Examining the determinants of visitation to the National Park System - Samantha Maher: University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Improving our understanding of the ecological functions and ecosystem services associated with multi-species ungulate migrations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - Julius Bright Ross: University of Oxford
Topic: The assessment of the impacts on lion populations of programs that compensate communities for the presence of lions - Arthur R. Wardle: University of California, Berkeley
Topic: The Economic Value of a Rare and Endemic Bird Species
2020
- Elise Breshears: Michigan State University
Topic: Examining the Effects of a Mandatory Residential Energy Disclosure Policy on the Housing Market in Portland, OR - Leslie Sanchez: Tufts University
Topic: Estimating effects of water right security and land tenure on Native American agriculture - Daniyar Zhumadilov: North Carolina State University
Topic: Effect of Anti Price Gouging Laws on Booking and Pricing Patterns on Airbnb
2019
- Perry Ferrell: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at West Virginia University
Topic: Free-riding Free-riders? Informal Public-Private Partnerships over Local Public Good Provision
- Henry Holmes: J.D.candidate in t Law at Case Western Reserve University
Topic: Rethinking WOTUS in the Context of Wetlands: State-Level Regulation in the Prairie Pothole Region
- Andres Mendez Ruiz: Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin
Topic: Coase on Fire: Natural Gas Flaring and its Regulation in North Dakota
- Casey Rozowski: Ph.D. student in Natural Resource Economics at North Carolina State University
Topic: Pollution and Mortality: Estimating Damages Using Pollutant Specific Abatement Technologies
2018
- Nino Abashidze: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at North Carolina State University
Topic: Solar Farms and Surrounding Property Value
- Bryan Pratt: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Topic: Property Tenure and Sensitivity to Price and Non-Price Instruments
- Daniel Szmurlo: Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Topic: Moving to Lower Ground: NFIP Subsidies and Floodplain Development
- Justin Winikoff Ph.D. student in Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: The Effects of Land Ownership on Wind Farm Investments
2017
- Andrew Ayers: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: California Groundwater Management
- Dylan Brewer: Ph.D. student in Energy and Environmental Economics at Michigan State University
Topic: Contract Choice and Energy Use in the Rental Housing Market
- Alexey Kalinin: Ph.D. student in Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: Do Neighbors Count? Timing of Mine Reclamation in Transboundary Watersheds
- Sara Kerosky: Ph.D. candidate in Department of Political Science at University of California, San Diego
Topic: Trust and Administrative Capacity as Predictors of Cooperative Enforcement
2016
- Anomitro Chatterjee: Ph.D. in Economics at Georgia State University
Topic: Effect of Community-based Natural Resource Management Policies on Elephant Populations in Africa
- Nathan D. DeLay: Ph.D. student in Economic Sciences at Washington State University
Topic: The impact of Federal Crop Insurance Subsidies on Land Conservation Practices
- Ben Foster: Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Topic: Predictive Content of Corn Forward Prices During Extreme Drought Events on the Mississippi River
- Renato Molina: Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Common Property Resources, Property Rights, and Natural Disasters
2015
- Eliot Meyer: Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Topic: Dredging and Hedging: Tradeoffs between Insurance and Infrastructure Adaptation in Managing Environmental Financial Risk
- Lee Parton: Ph.D. candidate in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at North Carolina State University
Topic: Measuring the Impact of Greenway Infrastructure: Looking for Evidence of Heterogeneous Demand for Environmental Amenities
- Gabriel Sampson: Ph.D. candidate in Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis
Topic: Assessing the Value of Spatially Differentiated Fishery Management Policy
2014
- Ben Foster: Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Topic: Characterizing the Financial Impact of Low Water Levels to Barge and Tow Operations on the Mississippi River
- Chris Giguere: Ph.D. candidate in Environmental and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University
Topic: Environment and Resource Policy in North Carolina: Vehicle Emissions, Disposal, and Recycling
- Bryan Leonard: Ph.D. candidate in Economics and Environmental Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: The “Resource Curse” for Native American Reservations
- Patrick O’Reilly: Ph.D. candidate in Mineral and Energy Economics and Doctoral Minor in Applied Mathematics at the Colorado School of Mines
Topic: The Role of Market Process in Reverse Supply Chains for Durable Goods
2013
- Ryan Abman: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Governance, Institutions, and the Performance of Protected Areas
- Eric Edwards: Ph.D. candidate in Economics and Environmental Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Effect of Risk and Seniority on the Value of Water
- Ben Foster: M.S. candidate in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Topic: Development of Novel Financial Instruments for Water Scarcity
- Carissa Wonkka: Ph.D. candidate in Ecosystem Science and Management at Texas A&M University
Topic: Legal Barriers to Effective Ecosystem Conservation
- Dallas Wood: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at North Carolina State University
Topic: Measuring the Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Wildfire Activity
2012
- Dustin Frye: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Topic: Understanding the Effect of Land Tenure on Land Use and Farm Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Native American Reservations
- Katy Hansen: Ph.D. candidate in Water Science at Oxford University
Topic: The Political Economy of Water Tanker Filling Stations in Accra, Ghana
- Chris Mahfouz: JD graduate from Northwestern University
Topic: Economic Reform, Institutions and Property Rights in American Indian Economies
- Trevor O’Grady: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Gridding New York: The Impact of the Commissioners’ Plan on Manhattan’s Development
- Margarita Portnykh: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Clemson University
Topic: The Effect of Weather on Mortality in Russia
- Shawn Regan: Masters student in Economics at Montana State University
Topic: Does Wilderness Matter? An Examination of the Political Causes and Economic Consequences of Wilderness Designation
2011
- Andrew Balthrop: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Georgia State University
Topic: Production Spillovers in Oil and Natural Gas Extraction and how these Spillovers Impact the Cumulative Recovery of these Resources
- Scott Frechette: Law student at the University of Alabama School of Law
Topic: Conservation Easements, Ecosystem Services, and Wildlife Conservation
- Bryan Leonard: Graduate student in Applied Economics at Montana State University
Topic: Political Economy of Environmental Regulations and Interest Group Formation
- Patrick Wieland: Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School, Associate Law Professor at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Peru
Topic: Property, Natural Resources, Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
- Harrison Zeff: Graduate student in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Topic: Effects that Future Droughts will have on the Financial Stability of Water Utilities in the Triangle Region of North Carolina
2010
- Vanessa Elizondo: Masters student in Applied Economics at Montana State University
Topic: An Economic Analysis of the Wild Horse and Burro Program
- Leo Krasnozhon: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at George Mason University
Topic: Natural Resources, Property Rights, and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from Ukraine
- Karen Maguire: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at University of Colorado, Boulder
Topic: Institutions and Markets: Oil and Gas Drilling on Federal Lands
- Rebecca Toseland: Ph.D. candidate in Economics at University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Evolution of Rights-Based Management in Marine Fisheries