Alumni: James Meldrum

Variability in Human-Natural Systems: Three Essays Connecting Resilience and Economics

Internship Organization: United States Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station

Ph.D. 2012

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James is a PhD student with a core focus on environmental economics, working with advisor Nicholas Flores. His interdisciplinary dissertation is designed to showcase compatibilities between frameworks of efficiency and resiliency. It focuses on understanding heterogeneity related to choices and their interactions with the environment. Specific topics include invasive species management in nontimber forests, residential development in floodplains, and adaptive management of aquatic nutrient loading.

James is equally interested in theoretical concepts, such as sustainability, and in practical applications. This is his third year researching the efficient management of an invasive species as part of an interdisciplinary team that emphasizes getting results to those who actually manage the resource. He contributed to the Forest Service's water vulnerability assessment as an intern at the Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), and now will intern with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), focusing on life cycle assessment of water used by different energy technologies.