My areas of teaching include environmental and natural resource economics and microeconomics. My research interests are in the field of environmental and natural resource economics and teaching economics. I am currently involved in research related to deforestation and land use in the Brazilian Amazon entitled "Living with Deforestation: Analyzing Transformations in Welfare and Land Use on an Old Amazonian Frontier NSF Project SES-0752936 (2008-2011)" This collaborative research project administered with Erin Sills, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, and Dar Roberts, Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara includes the establishment of a spatially referenced four-period panel to better analyze the dynamic relationship that exists between household welfare and deforestation. Much of this analysis builds on the projects entitled "The Dynamics of Household Land Use and Economic Welfare on the Amazon Frontier" (NSF-SES-0452852)  and "The Diffusion of Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon: A Time Series Analysis," (NSF-SES-0076549)  as well as previous data collection and analysis conducted under grants from the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Organization of American States, the National Security Education Program, and the McClure Fund Foundation. The three period panel collected in 1996, 2000, and 2005 is available for download at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Current projects include the analysis household attrition, the adoption and disadoption of sustainable practices, and the analysis of property value on the forest margin.