The program below is tentative and may be updated before the conference.
Tuesday - 21st | |
12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch Buffet - Keynote Address by Guillermo E. Herrera, Bowdoin College |
Title: "Better living through science: complementarities and paradigm shifts in the policy landscape" | |
1:30-3:10 | Session 1 |
Consumer Preferences for Oyster Attributes: Field Experiments on Brand, Location and Growing Method | |
Maik Kecinski University of Delaware | |
Consumer Response to Science-Based Eco-Labels: A Field Experiment | |
Tongzhe Li University of Delaware | |
Understanding Consumer Demand for Atlantic Sea Scallops | |
Megan Bailey Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA; Integrated Statistics, Woods Hole, MA | |
Siting Aquaculture in Coastal Waters: Measuring Impacts on Residential Property Values | |
Keith Evans University of Maine | |
3:10-3:30 | Break |
3:30-5:10 | Session 2 |
The way water quality should be?: Advisories, risk and water use choice | |
Caroline Noblet University of Maine | |
What can be learned about community values and value elicitation from a systematic qualitative approach? | |
Lisa Wainger University of MD, Ctr Environ Science | |
Assessing the demand for safety information on coastal beaches | |
Abigail Kaminski University of Maine | |
Deterring poaching from a common-pool resource | |
Lawrence De Geest University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |
Wednesday - 22nd | |
7:30-8:30 | Contintental Breakfast - Keynote Address by Alison Bates, UMass Amherst |
Title: "Using Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning to Address Sustainable Use of Ocean Space at Multiple Scales" | |
8:30-10:10 | Session 3 |
Are we running out of sand? A Duration Model of Beach Re-Nourishment | |
Yun Qiu Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics Ohio State University | |
Analyzing Economic Vulnerability along a Rapidly Changing Coast: The Cost of Wetland Loss | |
Luke Boutwell Center for Natural Resource Economics and Policy Louisiana State University | |
Coastal Land Conservation and Climate Change: Impacts of sea-level rise on conservation in Maine | |
Sahan Dissanayake Colby College | |
Economic impacts of climate variability on Maine lobster fishery and its climate adaptation options | |
Jenny Sun Gulf of Maine Research Institute | |
10:10-10:30 | Break |
10:30-12:10 | Session 4 |
Using a Bio-Economic Model of the Lobster Fishery in the Gulf of Maine to Assess Future Economic Impacts of Increased Water Temperature | |
Gabby Carpenter and Michael Donihue, Colby College | |
Incentives and Disincentives to Compliance with Protected Species Regulations in the US Northeast Gillnet Fleet: Combining Models and Focus Groups | |
Kathryn Bisack NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC/Social Sciences Branch | |
The Economic Geography of Scallop Fishing: Concentration, Growth, and Competition at Sea and in Port | |
Min-Yang Lee NOAA Fisheries | |
Using VR Technology to Assess Tourist Reactions to an Offshore Windfarm | |
Mario Teisl, Caroline Noblet, Richard R. Corey, Nicholas A. Giudice, University of Maine |