PhD Students
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Ashley Camhi
Ashley Camhi is a doctoral student whose main interest is in market-based mechanisms for conservation on private land. Her research focuses on the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program and how effective land enrolled in conservation has been in improving lake water quality in Iowa. Ashley has a decade of experience in the design and implementation of payments for ecosystem services schemes in Latin America and the Caribbean. She previously worked for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, focusing on incorporating the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services into infrastructure projects. |
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Sechindra Vallury
Sechindra's work focuses on the behavioral modeling of social-ecological systems, with an emphasis on the institutional arrangements for management of shared infrastructures. His research is motivated by the question: how can we motivate people to engage in collective action to maintain and coproduce a shared resource? His work focuses on small-scale irrigation systems in South Asia because of their increasing importance for food production in the developing world. His work draws on theories of behavioral economics, institutional economics, and public choice. Sechindra has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in natural resource management. |
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Masters Students
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Jonathan Russo
Jonathan Russo is a graduate student in the Master of Science in Sustainability program at Arizona State University, where he also received a B.S. in Economics. His current focus area for research is on identifying the characteristics of participants in voluntary water conservation programs. He also has interests in how information and social networks can affect water usage. |
Postdoctoral Scholars
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Jenny L. Apriesnig
Jenny Apriesnig received her Ph.D. in Agricultural & Resource Economics from Colorado State University in 2017. Her research primarily focuses on the bioeconomic modeling of fishery management and invasive species issues in a computable general equilibrium framework. She is passionate about taking an interdisciplinary approach to research and producing work that can be applied to policy in natural resource management. At ASU, she focuses on developing a comprehensive model for the management of Alaskan fisheries as natural capital. Jenny credits her appreciation of fish and aquatic systems to her home state of Minnesota. |
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Yutaro Sakai
Yutaro Sakai received his PhD in Economics at the University of Calgary in 2017. His research interest lies at the intersection of environmental, resource, and health economics. Although these fields appear to be different, they are linked because each deals with problems involving externalities. At ASU, he works on developing a multi-level decision model of fishing participation behavior on the West Coast of the United States. |