Quality of Research Discovery Award (Honorable Mention) for "Bioeconomics of Spatial Exploitation in a Patchy Environment", American Association of Agricultural Economists, 2000.

 

Outstanding Dissertation Award for "The Bioeconomics of Spatial and Intertemporal Exploitation in a Patchy Environment:  Implications for Management", American Association of Agricultural Economists, 1999.

 

Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Davis, 1995.

 

 

Professor, Department of Economics, Georgetown University, September 2005-present.

 

Visiting Scholar, Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University, 2003-2004.

 

Fellow, Resources for the Future, Quality of the Environment Division, October 1998 - present.

 

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, April - October, 1998.

 

 

 

Member, National Research Council Ad-hoc Committee to review The National Science and Technology Council's Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST) Research Priorities Plan, March 2006-Decembe 2007.

 

Member, Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Selection Committee, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2001.

 

 

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)

 

American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)

 

 

Editoral Council Member, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2006-2008

 

Editorial Council, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, April 2006-2009.

 

Associate Editor, Marine Resource Economics 2001-2005

 

 

 

 

National Science Foundation
U.S. National Sea Grant
Delaware Sea Grant

Maine Sea Grant
Rhode Island Sea Grant
Hawaii Sea Grant
Australian Natural Resource Council
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
The Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station
Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research
USDA PREISM program.

 

 

Various international non-governmental organizations.

 

 

Panels and Symposiums:

 

Participant, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) working group, "Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem services too?", Sept. 2005, Feb. 2006.

 

 Participant, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) working group, "Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem services too?", Sept. 2005, Feb. 2006.

 

Participant, NCEAS working group, "Ecosystem-based management for the oceans: The role of zoning", Nov. 2005.

 

Member, steering committee, Museum of Natural History's Sustaining Seascape Conference, April 2002.

 

Coordinator, natural resource economics area of the selected paper sessions, American Agricultural Economics Association's annual meeting, 2002.