Dartmouth Events

Wednesday, November 12 at 4pm, Life Sciences Center 201
"What happens when the bugs move into the neighborhood? Modeling property value implications of forest pest infestations"

Tom Holmes, Research Forester, Southern Research Station, US Forest Service
Kevin Boyle, Professor in the Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech

Please join EEB and ENVS for a special seminar with Tom Holmes and Kevin Boyle.  Their combined expertise covers the fields of forest health, economics, non-market valuation, and many other related areas. 

Tom Holmes's overall research goal is to describe how healthy forests contribute to individual and societal well-being over the long run. Much of his current research is focused on understanding how non-market valuation methods can be used to quantify a broad suite of forest ecosystem service values. He also works in the fields of wilderness economics, behavioral economics, invasive species, climate change, wildfire risk, and conservation policy.

Kevin Boyle's research focuses on improving methods to measure non-market values and to elicit preferences. He works with stated-preference methods (contingent valuation and choice modeling), revealed-preference methods (hedonic and travel-cost models, and averting behavior) and benefit transfers. Applications of his research include surface and groundwater, land use, forest health, climate change, marine resources, and health.

Co-Sponsored by Environmental Studies and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Refreshments will be served following the event.

Free and open to the public.