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Conrad, Jon M
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- Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management (AEM), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
I am interested in the management of renewable and nonrenewable resources so as to maximize their value to society.
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Affiliations
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- David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) Faculty Fellow
Research
research overview
- Resource management might be viewed as an exercise in dynamic optimization; how best to use resources over time. I am interested in using mathematical models and methods of dynamic optimization to improve resource allocation.
research activities
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- COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COMPUTATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY: COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2008 - 2013
- II-EN: COMPUTING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION, MACHINE LEARNING, AND DYNAMICAL MODELS FOR COMPUTATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY awarded by DIRECTORATE FOR COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NSF 2011 - 2012
area(s) of concentration/expertise
keywords
- Dynamic Optimization
- Resource and Environmental Economics
submitted impact statement
- When to drill? Trigger prices for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Resource and environmental economics: Mathematical models to improve the management of fishery, forest, and water resources or the dynamic control of pests or disease
- Resource and environmental economics: mathematical models to improve the management of fishery, forest, and water resources or the dynamic control of pests or disease
- Fisheries management in the Galapagos Marine Reserve
- Computational agriculture
- Adapting to Climate Change
Publications
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academic article
- Nonspatial and Spatial Models in Bioeconomics. Natural Resource Modeling. 25:52-92. 2012
- Wildlife Corridors as a Connected Subgraph Problem. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 63:18. 2012
- Estimating the Influence of Ethanol Policy on Plant Investment Decisions: A Real Options Analysis with Two Stochastic Variables. Energy Economics. 33:1194-1205. 2011
- Wine in Your Knapsack?. Journal of Wine Economics. 6:83-110. 2011
- Real Options in Resource Economics. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 2:33-52. 2010
- Open Access and Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon in North America. Natural Resource Modeling. 18:419-438. 2005
- Price Premiums for Eco-Friendly Commodities: Are ‘Green’ Markets the Best Way to Protect Endangered Ecosystems. Environmental and Resource Economics. 32:419-438. 2005
- When to Drill? Trigger Prices for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Resource and Energy Economics. 27:273-286. 2005
- The Value of Flexibility: Preservation, Remediation, or Development for Ginostra. Environmental and Resource Economics. 29:219-229. 2004
- Managing Urban Deer. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 85:266-281. 2003
- The Use of Binary Optimization and Hydrologic Models to Form Riparian Buffers. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 39:1167-1180. 2003
- Optimizing the Riparian Buffer: Harold Brook in the Skaneateles Lake Watershed, New York. Land Economics. 78:501-514. 2002
- Stochastic Water Quality: The Timing and Option Value of Treatment. Water Resources Research. 38:1-7. 2002
- Wilderness: Options to Preserve, Extract, or Develop. Resource and Energy Economics. 22:205-219. 2000
- The Bioeconomics of Marine Sanctuaries. Journal of Bioeconomics. 1:205-217. 1999
- A Report on the Norwegian Minke Whale Hunt. Marine Policy. 22:161-174. 1998
- Global Warming: When to Bite the Bullet. Land Economics. 73:164-173. 1997
- On the Option Value of Old-Growth Forest. Ecological Economics. 22:97-102. 1997
- Application of the Faustmann Principle to a Short Rotation Tree Species: An Analytical Tool for Economists, With Reference to Kenya and Leucaena. Agroforestry Systems. 21:79-90. 1993
- What Role for Leucaena Leucocephala in Meeting Fuelwood Demand in Kenya?. Leucaena Research Reports. 12:121-123. 1991
- Bioeconomics and the Bowhead Whale. Journal of Political Economy. 97:974-987. 1989
- Quasi-Option Value and the Expected Value of Information. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 94:813-820. 1980
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book
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chapter
- Uncertainty in Bioeconomic Modelling. Operations Research Handbook in Natural Resources. 217-236. 2007
- Renewable Resource Management. Fundamental Economics, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. 2004
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conference paper
- Risk-Sensitive Policies for Sustainable Renewable Resource Allocation.. Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11). 1942-1948. 2011
- Maximizing the Spread of Cascades Using Network Design. Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2010). 517-526. 2010
- Playing Games Against Nature: Optimal Policies for Renewable Resource Allocation. Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-10). 168-176. 2010
- Connections in Networks: Hardness of Feasibility Versus Optimality. Proceedings of International Conference on the Integration of AI and OR and CP for Combinatorial Optimization 2007. 2007
- Connections in Networks: Hardness of Feasibility versus Optimality. 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. 16-28. 2007
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conference poster
- Estimating the Influence of Ethanol Policy on Plant Investment Decisions: A Real Options Analysis with Two Stochastic Variables 2010
- Wine in Your Knapsack?” 2010
- What Role for Leucaena Leucocephala in Meeting Kenya's Fuelwood Demand?: A Bioeconomic Model 1991
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Teaching
teaching overview
- Resource and environmental economics, applications of methods of dynamic optimization to resource and environmental management.
teaching activities
- AEM-7000: Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management - Spring 2013
- AEM-7130: Dynamic Optimization - Spring 2013
- AEM-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- AEM-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- AEM-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- AEM-4500: Resource Economics - Fall 2012
- AEM-4970: Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management - Fall 2012
- AEM-7000: Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management - Fall 2012
- AEM-7500: Resource Economics - Fall 2012
- AEM-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- AEM-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- AEM-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- ECON-4500: Resource Economics - Fall 2012
- AEM-7000: Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management - Spring 2012
- AEM-7130: Dynamic Optimization - Spring 2012
- AEM-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- AEM-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- AEM-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- AEM-4500: Resouce Economics - Fall 2011
- AEM-4970: Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management - Fall 2011
- AEM-7000: Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management - Fall 2011
- AEM-7500: Resource Economics - Fall 2011
- AEM-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- AEM-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- AEM-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- ECON-4500: Resouce Economics - Fall 2011
Service
service to the profession
- Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Board of Directors 1998 - 2001
- Centre for Fisheries Economics Research Fellow 1990 - 1994
- National Marine Fisheries Service Faculty Fellow 1990 - 1991
- Resource Modeling Association Board of Governors 1988 - 1991
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Background
awards and honors
- SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012
- President, 2002
- Board of Directors, 1998
- Board of Governors, 1988
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college
- CALS
research keyword
- Dynamic Optimization
- Resource and Environmental Economics
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