In my research, I apply spatial analysis to questions of natural resource economics and policy. My interests include spatial and economic analyses of renewable energy systems, ecosystem services, and open space preservation programs.
West Michigan Wind Assessment
Offshore Wind Energy: Public Perspectives and Policy Considerations (2011)
Wind energy can be harnessed to produce electricity through two different types of facilities: onshore...
Citizens Views on Offshore Wind: Benefits, Challenges, and Information Gaps (with Jon VanderMolen, Betty Gajewski, and Aaron Ferguson) (2011)
Part II: Environmental Dimensions of Offshore Wind Energy Development (with Betty Gajewski, Paul Isley Ph.D., John Koches, Kurt Thompson, Jon VanderMolen, Yue Fan, Sara Damm, Aaron Ferguson, Ryan Gajewski, and Claire Schoolmaster), Technical Reports (2010)
The deployment of thousands of wind energy facilities required to meet various renewable energy targets...
Part III: Social Dimensions of Offshore Wind Energy Development (with Betty Gajewski, Paul Isley Ph.D., John Koches, Kurt Thompson, Jon VanderMolen, Yue Fan, Sara Damm, Aaron Ferguson, Ryan Gajewski, and Claire Schoolmaster), Technical Reports (2010)
The deployment of thousands of wind energy facilities required to meet various renewable energy targets...
Renewable Energy
Relative resistance of willow and poplar biomass production clones across a continuum of herbivorous insect specialization: Univariate and multivariate approaches (with Daniel Robison, Lawrence Abrahamson, and Timothy Volk), Forest Ecology and Management (2005)
Short-rotation woody crops (SRWC) are being developed as a sustainable system that simultaneously produces a...
Offshore Wind Outreach
Offshore Wind Energy in Michigan: Implications for the Great Lakes Environment (with Daniel M. O'Keefe), Michigan Sea Grant technical publication MICHU-11-736 (2011)
Citizen Views on Offshore Wind Energy in Lake Michigan - Fact Sheet (with Betty Gajewski) (2011)
Public Perceptions of Offshore Wind in Michigan's Upper Pennisula (with Celia Haven, Victorial Pebbles, and John Hummer) (2011)
Natural Resources Management
Public purchases and private preferences: Challenges for analyzing public open space acquisitions (with John Wagner), Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (2012)
The traditional hedonic model uses market purchases to estimate implicit prices. Hedonic models composed of...
Incorporating Acquisition Costs in Forestland Open Space Programs: Lessons from Conservation Biology and Applications (with John Wagner), Journal of Forestry (2010)
The tools for cost-effective biodiversity conservation are well documented, but rarely implemented. These tools for...
The science of ecological economics: A content analysis of Ecological Economics, 1989–2004 (with Valerie Luzadis, Leandro Castello, Jaewon Choi, Eric Greenfield, Sung-kyun Kim, John Munsell, Carol Franco, and Flavien Olowabi), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2010)
The Ecological Economics journal is a primary source for inquiry on ecological economics and sustainability....
Beliefs and Attitudes toward Boating of Four Stakeholder Groups in the Saranac Lake Area (with Diane Kuehn Ph.D., Rudy Schuster Ph.D., and Mark Mink), Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies (2009)
Public natural resource management agencies work with diverse stakeholder groups such as business owners, visitors,...