My main areas of research include environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics, applied econometrics, and water economics and policy. The primary line of investigation considers how institutions (rules, norms, and regulation) are agreed upon and subsequently influence human behavior and resource conditions in river basins. My current work examines legal and economic institutions for the management of groundwater resources, with a focus on water marketing and managing impacts from fallowed lands. Previously, I worked at the Environmental Defense Fund. Before my Ph.D., I was Fulbright Fellow and worked in Germany on projects related to climate change, energy, river restoration, and water pricing. 

I hold a Ph.D. from a joint program between the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management as well as the Department of Economics at UC, Santa Barbara.