I am an environmental economist at the University of Alaska Anchorage.   

My current research projects include fisheries management under uncertainty, coastal erosion. and community capacity building. I am interested in questions that include the interaction between endogenous risk and natural capital.

My primary interest is in research that aids policymakers in responding to a rapidly changing world by understanding the tradeoffs associated with investing in risk mitigation efforts versus ex post adaptation. This includes identifying individual responses to environmental change to better understand individual behavior and modelling policy responses at the government and global level. 

I teach courses in Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Pandemic Economics and Economics and Public Policy as a member of the Department of Economics within the College of Business and Public Policy. In my courses students build models and write papers to confront policy questions that interest them. Through some of these projects I have been fortunate to learn about things ranging from plastic bag bans to food waste, and holiday-season markets for cosmetics to strategies for improving educational outcomes.