Jacob Hochard

Term: 2019 - 2022

Action Team Assignment: Natural Resource Policy & Economics

Monitoring and Assessment Team Assignment: Human Dimensions

STAC Member Since: October 2017

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Department of Economics, and Institute for Coastal Science and Policy (Joint Faculty Appointment)

Organization: East Carolina University

Education: PhD Economics, University of Wyoming (2015) BA Economics and Environmental Studies (with honors), Gettysburg College (2011)

Primary Focus Area: Natural resource economics

Secondary Focus Area(s): Environmental economics, management of ecosystem services, applied microeconomics

Career Experiences: Jacob Hochard is an applied natural resource economist. His work, highly interdisciplinary in nature, combines geospatial analysis, mathematical modeling and empirical analysis to examine feedback between natural and human systems. Recent work has examined the management of a recovering red wolf population in eastern North Carolina, storm protection services generated by mangrove forests and measuring the value of North Carolina’s beachfronts as a critical source of natural capital for the state. Hochard has received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, Oak Ridge Affiliated Universities and Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research.