Leadership Team
Ann M. Bartuska
Ann M. Bartuska is a Senior Advisor at RFF. Her research focuses on natural resources and forestry, especially a consideration of natural climate solutions through forests and agricultural lands.
Lawrence Friedl
Director, NASA Applied Sciences Program
Yusuke Kuwayama
Fellow and VALUABLES Consortium Director
Bethany Mabee
VALUABLES Consortium Deputy Director
Elizabeth Wason
Managing Editor
Socioeconomic Valuation Working Group
The working group is made up of economists, decision scientists, statisticians, and policy analysts with expertise in the application of valuation techniques to Earth observations. It comprises the core social science expertise of the consortium. In addition to conducting impact assessments, members are engaged in the consortium's outreach activities, including helping to recruit new social scientists to VALUABLES activities.
Richard L. Bernknopf
Richard L. Bernknopf is a a visiting research fellow at RFF and research professor in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. His research focuses on the demonstration of the economic value of earth observation and the translation of
James Boyd
James Boyd is a Senior Fellow and Thomas Klutznick Chair in Environmental Policy at RFF. Boyd’s research emphasizes collaborations between ecologists and economists in order to guide decisions that affect natural resources.
Roger M. Cooke
Roger Cooke joined Resources for the Future in September 2005 as the first appointee to the Chauncey Starr Chair in Risk Analysis. His research has widely influenced risk assessment methodology, particularly in the areas of expert judgment and uncertainty
Alan Krupnick
Senior Fellow
Yusuke Kuwayama
Fellow and VALUABLES Consortium Director
Daniel M. Sullivan
Fellow
Scientific Council
The scientific council is made up of Earth scientists and satellite remote sensing experts. Members have demonstrated interest in working with and providing technical advice to socioeconomic valuation experts, introducing the VALUABLES Consortium to their networks, and articulating the consortium’s potential to serve the Earth science and remote sensing communities.
David Diner
California Institute of Technology & NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Klaus Keller
Pennsylvania State University
Joseph Kellndorfer
Earth Big Data LLC
Dalia Kirschbaum
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert E. Kopp
Rutgers University
Kyle McDonald
City College of New York & City University of New York
Michael Oppenheimer
Princeton University
Alex de Sherbinin
Columbia University & NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
David Skole
Michigan State University
Bruce Wielicki
NASA Langley Research Center
Benjamin Zaitchik
Johns Hopkins University
Advisory Group
The advisory group provides strategic guidance to the consortium and offers advice about the consortium’s management. Members contribute their sectorial expertise and perspectives to ensure that VALUABLES is addressing the most pressing questions related to the socioeconomic benefits of Earth observations.
Anne Connor
Harris Corporation
Mike Fox
Raytheon Company
Larry Meinert
Meinert Consulting, LLC
Lea Shanley
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chuck Wooldridge
NOAA Satellite and Information Service