Jesse Burkhardt
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Colorado State University
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Colorado State University
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.
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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