Many University of Wyoming faculty members and researchers have expertise and conduct significant research in environmental and natural resource areas, including the following faculty in the College of Business.
 

UW COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
 

Economics and Finance

Thomas D. Crocker
Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1967
(307)766-6423
e-mail: tcrocker@uwyo.edu
Research: The economic sources of environmental problems, the development of tools to measure the economic consequences of these problems, and the design of allocation systems and institutions to control them.

Charles F. Mason
Professor of Economics and Finance
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1983
(307)766-5336
e-mail: bambuzlr@uwyo.edu
Research: Common property interests including groundwater, fish harvested from open seas, oil deposits simultaneously exploited by several companies, and animal herds hunted or trapped by many individuals; and exploration for, and extraction of, non-renewable resources, such as oil or uranium.

Jason Shogren
Thomas Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management, and Professor of Economics and Finance
Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1986
(307)766-5430
e-mail: jramses@uwyo.edu
Research: Environmental risk, conflict and resolution, theoretical and applied research; non-market valuation; and experimental economics.

John T. Tschirhart
Professor of Economics and Finance
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1975
(307)766-2356
e-mail: jtsch@uwyo.edu
Research: State public utility commission involvement with environmental regulations; and the interaction of ecosystems and economics.