RESEARCH

My research and teaching consider the intersections of agricultural communities, environmental health, and climate change focusing on water, agricultural disease, economics, decision-making, and policy. I study environmental conservation, pollution, water quality policy, and decision-making in the US with communities around impaired bodies of water in North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. I have documented interdependent crises involving agriculture disease, climate change, and natural hazards in the Caribbean and Gulf Coast with Hurricanes Tomas in 2010 and Harvey and Maria in 2017. Additionally, I am interested in everything banana-related and have been working with farming communities in the Caribbean and Latin America and the US since 2003.

Primary Interests: Climate change and climate change adaptation, Economics, Food and agriculture, Sustainability, resilience, and mitigation, Governance

Locations of Experience: Caribbean and Central America, North America, Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Other Areas of Research: Disasters and Natural Hazards, Water Quality

Check out my select publications and current research projects!