Research Interests
Mathematical models for integrating scientific information on natural, technical, and social systems; Bayesian network modeling with regular application to environmental and human health regulation and decision making; novel approaches to climate change assessment, combining risk analysis, game theory, and agent-based modeling.
Selected Grants
Model-based Tracking and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services (MoTIVES) for Military Base Land-Use and Land-Management Decisions
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program · 2022 - 2027EAGER:PBI: Integrating Social and Economic Considerations in Ecosystem Innovation for Equitable Regional Transformation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by East Carolina University · 2024 - 2026NSF2026: EAGER Identifying microbes' population-level environmental responses using Bayesian modeling
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2025IUCRC Planning Grant Duke University: Center for Innovation in Risk-analysis for Climate Adaptation and Decision-making (CIRCAD)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2025NSF Engines: Type-1: North Carolina Ecosystem Technology (NCET) Economic Engine
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Wilmington · 2023 - 2025Building community resilience to natural-disaster-driven contaminant exposures through system-level risk analysis, management, and readiness
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2020 - 2024Collaborative Research: Implications of Solar Radiation Management for Strategic Behavior and Climate Governance
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024Structured Decision Analysis as a Tool for Implementing Shared Stewardship
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by US Forest Service · 2020 - 2022Assessing the contribution of small streams to use and non-use water quality values using modeling, stakeholder participation, and decision theory
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dartmouth College · 2016 - 2022Mapping Spatio-Temporal Variability of Prairie Wetlands
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2017 - 2020Co-occurrence of mercury with other inorganic and organic contaminants in marine and freshwater fish and shellfish
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dartmouth College · 2018 - 2020CNH-L: Assessing the Potential for Climate Change and Forest Insects to Drive Land-Use Regime Shifts
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Harvard University · 2016 - 2019Analysis of Defense Related Ecosystem Services
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Oregon State University · 2018 - 2019TNC Bridge Collaborative
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Nature Conservancy · 2016 - 2017External Relationships
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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