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School of Arts, Sciences & Business

Programs I Teach 

Risk Management Economics Business Economics Business

Education

• Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
• MS in Water Resources Policy, Colorado State University
• MS in Policy Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• BS in Economics, University of Maryland

Bio

My passion is learning, yours and mine. When your questions teach me that’s a good day.

A lifelong Baltimorean, I have been blessed with the opportunity to have traveled to every continent but Antarctica (bucket list) and have worked with people from almost one hundred nations.

My primary interests are in all things risk but mostly food safety, natural disasters, trade and environment as well as natural resources planning. I teach economics courses specializing in microeconomics but I have also taught a number of business courses when needed.

Recently I have been working on keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, assisting State agencies and NGO’s working on Maryland’s fracking decision, identifying dietary supplement combinations risky to our national defense, and helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers transform water resources planning in the US through SMART Planning.

I am especially interested in working with students to develop their scholarly and personal interests most particularly when our interests overlap.

Publications & Presentations

“Planning for Public Benefits,” a draft report to the Institute for Water Resources, 2024. “A Pragmatic Interim Method for Estimating Intangible Flood Benefits,” a report to the Institute for Water Resources, 2023. “Improving Benefit-Cost analysis for USACE Projects,” a report to the Institute for Water Resources, 2023. "Risk Management for One Biosecurity" chapter in Handbook of Plant Biosecurity: Second edition, Springer, New York to be published 2023 A Practical Guide to Making Decisions Under Uncertainty, a text written for students of RIS-605 Decision Making Under Uncertainty, 2022, in search of a publisher. "A New Direction for Phytosanitary Risk Management", Crop Protection, September, 2021. A new direction for phytosanitary risk management - ScienceDirect “Optimizing risk management strategies for the control of Philornis downsi -a threat to birds in the Galápagos Islands”, Frontiers in Conservation Science, section Animal Conservation, with others, September, 2021. Turning Point for Phytosanitary Risk Management? CABI Blog, November 19, 2020. https://blog.cabi.org/2020/11/19/turning-point-for-phytosanitary-risk-management/ Handbook on Phytosanitary Risk Management: Theory and Practice, with Robert Griffin and Stephanie Bloem, 2020, CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK. “Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Model for Assessing the Risk from Multi-ingredient Dietary Supplements (MIDS)” with Hellen A. Oketch-Rabah, Mary L. Hardy, Allison Patton, Mei Chung, Nandakumara D. Sarma and others, 2020, Journal of Dietary Supplements, DOI: 10.1080/19390211.2020.1741485 Primer on Risk Analysis: Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Second Edition, 2019. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis, ISBN 9781138312289. Principles of Risk Analysis: Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Second Edition, 2019.Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis, ISBN 9781138478206. “The Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study—Brandon Road Draft Integrated Feasibility Study and Environmental Impact Statement—Will County, Illinois Appendix C Risk Assessment,” U.S.Army Corps of Engineers, http://glmris.anl.gov/documents/docs/brandon-rd/GLMRIS-BR_Appendix_C-Risk_Assessment.pdf Accessed december 14, 2017. “Principles of Risk Analysis for Water Resources,” Institute for Water Resources, 2017-R-01, 2017. “Planning Manual Part II: Risk-Informed Planning,” Institute for Water Resources, 2017-R-03, 2017. “Aquatic Nuisance Species in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basin-A Risk Assessment in Support of the GLMRIS Study,” with M. Grippo, I. Hlohowskyj, L. Fox, Brooke Herman, and J. Hayse (2017). Environmental Management 59: 154-173. “Transforming Water Resources Planning Through SMART Planning,” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Volume 40 Issue 9, September 2014. “Risk Assessment: Principles, Methods, and Applications” invited chapter with L. Gorris In: Motarjemi Y. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Food Safety, Volume [1], pp. 65-72. Waltham, MA: Academic Press, 2014. “Risk Analysis” invited chapter in Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, and Practices. Ed. Debra Rowe. Detroit: Macmillan, 2014. Natural Resources Planning, 2013.Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis, ISBN 9781439892619..

Professional Activities 

• Risk adviser to Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Chesapeake Climate Action Network on qualitative assessment of risks of unconventional gas well development (2013-present)
• Risk consultant to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study Risk Assessment (2012-present)
• Expert panel member for U.S. Pharmacopeia study of the risks of multi-ingredient dietary supplements (2013-4)
• Content expert for development of food defense training materials for all Veterans’ Administration healthcare facilities in the U.S. (2013)
• Food safety risk analysis trainer for international experts, Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (1996-present)

Awards

FDA Leveraging/Collaboration Award FDA Director’s Special Citation Award CFSAN Director’s Special Citation Award USDA Secretary’s Honors Award for Expanding International Trade Opportunities for Agricultural Producers and Other Rural Residents ARS TCK Task Force National Audubon Society’s Joan Hodges Queneau Palladium Medal for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan