Alan Fox, Ph.D., Senior Economist
Gretchen Greene, Ph.D., Senior Economist
Jeri A. Sawyer, M.S., Economist
Miriam Z. Hammer, M.S., Economist
Suzanne Rock , GIS Coordinator
Kyla Larson, Administrative/GIS Assistant
Shelly Christensen, Administrative Assistant
Jim Scovil, Accountant
Gretchen Greene, Ph.D., Senior Economist
Dr. Greene joined NEA in 1998, after receiving her Ph.D.
in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida. She has nine
years of experience in community and natural resource economics. Working with
diverse clients, she regularly applies theoretical techniques to real world
problems and communicates the results of research findings to audiences at
all levels of understanding.
Since joining NEA, Dr. Greene has worked in a number of different areas, including water rights litigation support, economic analysis of Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations, risk-based analysis, survey design and analysis, and social and community assessments. Dr. Greene was senior analyst and provided project oversight for a recent risk-based economic analysis for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Using the HEC-FDA model, she estimated flood damage reduction benefits of the Lewiston Levee system, and employed Monte Carlo simulation to perform the risk-based analysis. Results were used in a benefit-cost economic analysis of various management options.
Dr. Greene also recently conducted a social and economic assessment of the several communities within which the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde (CTGR) operate. Working closely with the Tribes’ Policy and Planning Office, she developed a survey that will be used annually to measure improvements in the overall health and well being of the tribal and non-tribal communities. Her analysis of this initial survey data will serve as a baseline description of the current social and economic status of these communities and the CTGR, to which future assessments will be compared.
Several studies in which Dr. Greene has been involved since
joining NEA have related to threatened and endangered species listings under
the ESA. She has prepared economic assessments of proposed listings for NMFS,
following RegFlex guidelines for determining whether a proposed listing has
a significant impact on small businesses in the affected area. She analyzed
the impacts of regulations implementing California laws, relating to threatened
or endangered species, for the California Department of Fish and Game. She
recently provided input for model design and analysis related to NEA’s
market analysis of Alaska groundfish and potential impacts of protective measures
for the endangered Steller sea lion.
