I am an Associate Professor in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University (CSU). My research interests include energy, air pollution, climate change, and environmental economics broadly. I serve on the Editorial Council for JEEM, I am a collaborator on a NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) team led by Jeff Pierce in Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, I serve as faculty support for the MAP ERC Targeted Research Training program on Climate & Worker Health out of the Colorado School of Public Health, and I am on the advisory committee for high performance computing at CSU.

I have ongoing collaborations with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), the National Park Service, and the US Forest Service. 

What I'm excited about right now: Applying deep learning techniques to remotely sensed data and using these techniques to ask new questions in economics. For example, I am working on training a computer to see and detect wildfire smoke from satellite imagery (Grad student website) and developing a course on deep learning for econometrics. 

Selected Publications: 

The papers below highlight some recent work on air pollution and wildfire smoke.  

Corwin, K. A., Burkhardt, J., Corr, C. A., Stackhouse Jr, P. W., Munshi, A., & Fischer, E. V. (2025). Solar energy resource availability under extreme and historical wildfire smoke conditions. Nature Communications, 16(1), 245.

Corwin, K. A., Corr, C. A., Burkhardt, J., & Fischer, E. V. (2022). Smoke‐Driven Changes in Photosynthetically Active Radiation During the US Agricultural Growing Season. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(23), e2022JD037446. 

O’Dell, K., Ford, B., Burkhardt, J., Magzamen, S., Anenberg, S. C., Bayham, J., .. & Pierce, J. R. (2022). Outside in: the relationship between indoor and outdoor particulate air quality during wildfire smoke events in western US cities. Environmental Research: Health, 1(1), 015003. 

I also have a strand of research on energy economics: 

Burkhardt, Jesse, Kenneth T. Gillingham, and Praveen K. Kopalle. "Field experimental evidence on the effect of pricing on residential electricity conservation." Management Science 69, no. 12 (2023): 7784-7798. 

Kopalle, Praveen K., Jesse Burkhardt, Kenneth Gillingham, Lauren S. Grewal, and Nailya Ordabayeva. "Delivering affordable clean energy to consumers." Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2024): 1-23. 

I also consult for Mountain Data Group primarily working with water utilities and the Alliance for Water Efficiency on projects related to municipal water management. 

My email is jesse.burkhardt@colostate.edu

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