Environmental Economist Speaks at Feb. 10 Water@USU Seminar

Water@USU, a Utah State University Water Initiative project, welcomes economist Nick Flores to campus Tuesday, Feb. 10. Flores presents “Public Preferences for Cleaning up the Minnesota River Basin” at 4 p.m. in the Biology-Natural Resources Building, room 102. His talk is free and open to all. 

Flores, associate professor and department chair of the economics department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is a faculty research associate in the university’s Institute of Behavioral Economics. His research interests include decision making and the environment/public goods, environmental and public goods valuation as well as research methodology in environmental economics.

 

Upcoming Water@USU Seminar speakers include geomorphologist Michal Tal of the University of Minnesota Feb. 24 and David Stevens, professor of environmental engineering at USU, March 3. The seminars, free and open to all, are held at 4 p.m. in BNR 102.

 

Water@USU’s annual Spring Runoff Conference is slated for April 2-3 in the Eccles Conference Center.

 

Water@USU is an interdisciplinary collaboration of the university’s Utah Water Research Laboratory, the colleges of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Natural Resources, Science, Engineering, Agriculture and the Huntsman School of Business. Established in 2003, the initiative fosters collegial sharing of water-related research and ideas throughout campus and the community.

 

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Contact: Kim Schreuders (435) 797-2941, kim.schreuders@usu.edu
Writer: Mary-Ann Muffoletto (435) 797-3517, maryann.muffoletto@usu.edu