He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007, and received his B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Saint Thomas in 2002. He is currently an Associate Editor at Resource and Energy Economics and served as Co-Chair of the 2016 AERE Summer Conference in Breckenridge, Colorado. He also currently serves on the Editorial Council for the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.