Overview:

My research lies at the intersection of environmental and resource economics, climate change, and land markets. I focus on how disturbance risks from acute shocks like hurricanes to chronic threats like pest outbreaks affect the value of forests as natural capital 

Dissertation Projects:

• Hurricane Michael (Job Market Paper): Parcel-level econometric analysis shows land values declined 22–30% following the storm, with cheap sales concentrated in heavily damaged tracts. Undamaged parcels showed no price effect, suggesting landowners did not revise expectations of future hurricanes.
  
  

• Numerical Modeling: A forest economics model based on Faustmann with stochastic disturbance extensions confirms that physical damages alone account for observed losses.
  
  

• Pest Outbreaks: Ongoing work on Southern Pine Beetle infestations, integrating ecological spread models with land sales data to evaluate how chronic disturbances shape land values.
  
  

Future Agenda:
I plan to expand this framework to study repeated Category 5 hurricanes and other climate shocks, asking whether markets eventually shift expectations when catastrophic events become more frequent.