Interested in Natural Resources and Development. Currently working with Missouri's Division of Tourism and MU's Tourism Research and Development Center on the Economic Impacts of Tourism. There are lots of potential thesis topics related to this work, both empirical and theoretical. There is also access to a large, national quarterly, data base containing information about domestic travel. Also interested in pursuing research into other topics involving natural resources, the environment, or amenities.
Interests lie in decision making strategies and computerized decision tools.
Current topics include manure management, notill crop production, and precision agriculture. Applied research in the area of the environmental and economic impact of land applied manure. The objective of my research is to evaluate alternative grain marketing strategies. In the area of production theory, interests focus on dynamic models of production and the application of optimal control theory in order to estimate dynamic supply and input demand equations at the national and regional levels. A potential topic for research is a dynamic model directed at determining the optimal rates of soil erosion and adoption of soil conservation practices.