Dr. Arce-Ibarra is a former Fishery biologist, her Ph.D. dissertation on interdisciplinary studies addressed livelihoods, environmental valuation and natural resource management from Mexico´s Lowland Maya area. Currently, she teaches courses on "Ecological economics" and "Management of fauna". She is co-applicant ...

Dan is an associate professor of environmental and natural resource economics at Mississippi State University. His research focuses on non-market valuation of coastal resources, including recent work on barrier island and wetland restoration. He has also done research on the ...

Dr. Ko is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston. Prior to taking this position he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University. His research interests include ecological economics (biophysical analysis of ...

Jeffrey Wielgus is a consultant for Environmental Defense Fund and Ocean Conservancy, where he studies the ecological and economic consequences of human impacts to coastal resources in the Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean. Dr. Wielgus has also ...

Dr. Jorge Brenner is currently the Executive Director of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS). He uses geospatial intelligence tools to contribute to projects dealing from biodiversity to conservation to climate change risk. He was the Associate ...

Director or the Center for the Environment (CFE) at Plymouth State University Dr. Boyer joined the CFE in 2012 after 18 years at the Southeast Environmental Research Center (SERC) at Florida International University in Miami where he served as director ...

Matt is the President of Mather Economics, an economics consultancy in Atlanta, GA. Matt has worked as an economist for over seventeen years as an industry practitioner of applied economics and as an economic consultant. Matt has completed studies of ...

Robert Woithe, Ph.D., is a senior environmental scientist and Associate Vice President in Atkins North America’s Water Resources Sector with extensive experience in large-project management, aquatic and marine ecology, and natural resource monitoring and assessment. For the past 10 years ...