Brian Roach
Consulting
Economist
Energy
and Water Economics
810
Walker Street
Columbia
TN
931-490-0060
Dr. Roach has over ten years
experience as a researcher in the field of non-market benefits valuation. His research experience has focused on the
changes in recreational economic values due to changes in environmental
quality. He is familiar with the use of
both behavioral and contingent data to estimate economic impacts. He has been an author on eight peer-reviewed
articles as well as approximately 20 conference papers and technical
reports. He was worked with several
federal government agencies including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He also
has project experience with the California Department of Fish and Game, the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and the Maine Department
of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
Professional Experience:
July
1999 – Present: Instructor, University of Maine
I currently teach both
Internet and traditional courses for the Department of Resource Economics and
Policy. These courses include
Introduction to Natural Resources, Modern Economic Problems, and The Consumer
Society.
September
1999 – Present: Private consultant for Foster Associates, Inc., Bethesda, MD.
This project, sponsored
by the U.S. Minerals Management Service, estimates the potential ecological and
economic impacts of oil and gas development along the outer continental shelf
of the United States. Oil spill
scenarios are analyzed to determine the potential recreational and ecological
economic damages.
May
1997 – June 1999: Research Assistant Professor, University of Maine.
I worked on various
economic analyses of Maine natural resources including the impact of water
levels on whitewater rafting visitation and economic benefits, the effect of
fishery regulations on angler site choice, and the impacts of contingent
valuation formats on moose hunters consumer surplus. I am preparing a report based on a public opinion survey asking
questions about Maine wildlife management.
Another project measured the level of support for various forest management
regulations and Maine state public land acquisition. In continuing work, I estimated recreation demand models for the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using data from the Willamette Valley in
Oregon. I also taught an undergraduate
class twice, Introduction to Natural Resources.
February
1999 - April 1999: Private Consultant for Southwick Associates, Alexandria, VA.
For this project I
collected, reviewed, and summarized the available literature on public lands
hunting issues, including economic benefits, trends, and controversies.
October
1998 – February 1999: Private consultant for Industrial Economics, Inc.,
Cambridge, MA.
This work extended
previous consulting work for Industrial Economics. I conducted a meta-analysis of over 100 angler recreation demand
studies, testing for consistencies and the potential to transfer results across
geographic regions and angler target species.
October
1997 – April 1998: Private consultant for Environmental Policy Options,
Portland, ME.
This work involved two
projects: an analysis of the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated
Recreation for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a study for the Maine
Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife exploring the feasibility and
economic impacts of lifetime fishing and hunting licenses.
May
1995 - May 1997: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of California - Davis.
This work for the Army
Corps of Engineers involved several projects, including extensions of my
doctoral research on reservoir recreation and an analysis of water-based
recreation benefits in the Southeastern United States. The work also included the first part of a
project to estimate recreation demand models for reservoirs and rivers in the
Willamette Valley, Oregon.
April
1996 - Oct. 1996: Private consultant for the Bureau of Reclamation, Sacramento,
CA.
This research included
estimation of benefits accruing to waterfowl hunters at wildlife refuges in the
Central Valley of California.
Feb.
1996 - May 1996: Private consultant for Industrial Economics, Inc., Cambridge,
MA.
I reviewed and coded
articles for a meta-analysis of angler recreation demand models for a database
for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Oct.
1995 - March 1996: Private consultant for Jones and Stokes, Associates,
Sacramento, CA.
This project involved an
analysis of angler benefits along California rivers as part of the economic
analysis of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. The study estimated the visitation and
economic benefit changes associated with changes in fishing quality.
June
1995 – November 1995: Private consultant for Forest Guardians, Santa Fe, NM.
This study analyzed
management alternatives for a federal wilderness area in New Mexico. The costs and benefits of grazing leases
were estimated and compared to the benefits of wilderness recreation.
Jan.
1992 - May 1995: Student Post-Graduate Researcher at the University of
California – Davis.
My research included an
analysis of the economics benefits Army Corps of Engineers' recreation sites
under various management scenarios. The
study focused on the impact of water levels, recreational facilities, and
visitor fees on reservoir visitation and economic benefits. In a project for the Bureau of Land
Management, I conducted a cost-benefit analysis of wildlife/livestock tradeoffs
on public land in Northern California.
Oct.
1993 - Jan. 1994: Private consultant to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Vicksburg, MS.
This project involved
development of a travel cost recreation demand model for Missouri River
recreation sites.
Aug.
1991 - Dec. 1991: Teaching Assistant at the University of California - Davis.
As a TA for an
undergraduate resource economics class, I graded and lectured several times.
Aug.
1990 - Aug. 1991: Research Associate at the Pennsylvania State University.
I worked full-time on
several projects including the development and implementation of agricultural
production surveys dealing with adoption of new technologies, an economic risk
analysis of agricultural cooperatives, and a study of environmental risk
perceptions.
Aug.
1987 - Aug. 1990: Research Assistant at the Pennsylvania State University.
My research included a
market analysis of organic agricultural products and the valuation of changes
in water quality using data on averting expenses.
Publications
and Conference Papers:
Abdalla, Charles W., Brian A. Roach, and Donald J.
Epp. “Valuing Environmental Quality Changes Using Averting Expenditures:
An Application to Groundwater
Contamination.” Land Economics
68(2):163-169, May 1992.
Abdalla, Charles W., and Brian Roach. “Valuing
Environmental Quality Changes Using Averting Expenditures: An Application to
Groundwater Contamination.” Paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association meeting
at Vancouver, British Columbia, August
1990.
Epp, Donald J. and Brian Roach. “Relating
Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation of Collective Risks: The Case of
Drinking Water Contamination.” Paper presented at the American Agricultural
Economics Association meeting at Vancouver,
British Columbia, August 1990.
Loomis, John and Brian Roach. “Using Economics to
Make Issues into Non-Issues and Focus
Wildlife-Livestock Trade-offs: A Case
Study of BLM and the East Lassen Deer Herd.” Paper presented at the Fifth
International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Fort Collins, CO, June, 1994.
Loomis, John, Brian Roach, Frank Ward, and Richard
Ready. “Testing Transferability of Recreation Demand Models Across Regions: A
Study of Corps of Engineer Reservoirs.” Water
Resources Research, vol. 31(3):721-730, March, 1995.
Loomis, John, Brian Roach, Frank Ward, and Richard
Ready. “Reservoir Recreation Demand and
Benefits Transfers: Preliminary Results.” Paper presented at W-133 Western
Regional Resource Economics Conference, Santa Fe, NM, March, 1993.
Musser, Wesley N., James S. Shortle, Kathleen
Kreahling, and Brian Roach. “An Economic Analysis of the Pre-Sidedress Nitrogen
Test for Pennsylvania Corn Production.” Review
of Agricultural Economics, vol. 17(1), January, 1995.
Roach, Brian, Kevin Boyle, Stephen Reiling, and
John Bergstrom. “The Effect of Instream Flows on Whitewater Visitation and
Consumer Surplus.” Rivers, vol. 7(1), 1999.
Roach, Brian, Joan Trial, and Kevin Boyle.
“Comparing 1994 Angler Catch and Harvest Rates from On-site and Mail Surveys on
Selected Maine Lakes.” North American
Journal of Fisheries Management, vol. 19(1), February, 1999.
Roach, Brian and John Loomis. “Economic Analysis of
Deer Management Alternatives on Public Lands in Northern California.” Human Dimensions of Wildlife, vol.
1(2):14-23, Summer 1996.
Roach, Brian. “Valuing Travel Time by Isolating the
Components of Recreation Benefits.” Paper presented at W-133 Western Regional
Resource Economics Conference, Asilomar, CA, March, 1995.
Roach, Brian and Frank Ward. “A Comparison of
Methods for Estimating Recreation Demand Models with Collinear Facilities.”
Paper presented at W-133 Western Regional Resource Economics Conference,
Tucson, AZ, February, 1994.
Roach, Brian and Frank Ward. “Ranking the
Performance of Methods for Estimating Recreation Demand Models with Collinear
Site Facilities.” Paper presented at American Agricultural Economics Association meeting at San Diego,
CA, August, 1994.
Roach, Brian and Cathy Hamlett. “Dairy Farmers'
Valuation of Market Security Offered by Milk Marketing Cooperatives.” Paper
presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association meeting at Manhattan, Kansas, August 1991.
Roach, Brian and James Shortle. “A Diagrammatic
Analysis of Averting Expenditures.” Paper presented at the Northeastern
Agricultural and Resource Economics Association meeting at Turo, Nova Scotia, June 1990.
Smith, Cathy A. and Brian A. Roach. “Dairy Farmer's
Valuation of Market Security Offered by Milk Marketing Cooperatives.” Journal
of Cooperatives, vol. 10, 1995.
Ward, Frank A., Brian A. Roach, and Jim Henderson.
“Incremental Values of Water in Recreation: Evidence from the California
Drought.” Water Resources Research,
vol. 32(4):1075-1081, April 1996.
Technical
Reports:
Abdalla, Charles W., Donald J. Epp, and Brian A.
Roach. “Valuing Changes in Drinking Water Quality Using Averting Expenditures.”
Final Report to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Cooperative
Agreement No. CR-815412-01-0, February 1990.
Boyle, Kevin J., Brian Roach, and Henry Hilton.
“Maine Residents’ Opinions on Wildlife Management, Funding, and Policy
Issues”. Department of Resource
Economics and Policy Staff Paper, REP 484, 1999.
Boyle, Kevin J., Brian Roach, and David G.
Waddington. “1996 Net Economic Values for Bass, Trout and Walleye Fishing,
Deer, Elk and Moose Hunting, and Wildlife Watching.” Addendum to the 1996 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and
Wildlife-Associated Recreation. U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service Report 96-2, August 1998.
Roach, Brian. “A Travel Cost Analysis of Waterfowl
Hunting in the Central Valley of California.” Final report prepared for the
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Sacramento, CA under contract number
1425-96-PG-20-08020, October 1996.
Roach, Brian. “Application of the Boater Regional
Recreation Demand Model to Reservoir Sites in the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa
and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint
River Basins.” Final report prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Waterways Experiment Station,
Vicksburg, MS, June 1996.
Roach, Brian and John Loomis. “A Travel Cost
Analysis of Angler Benefits by Target Species Along Four California
Rivers.” Final report prepared for
Jones and Stokes, Associates,
Sacramento, CA, December 1995.
Roach, Brian. “A Bioeconomic Analysis of Elk and
Cattle Management Alternatives within the San Pedro Parks Wilderness Area, New
Mexico.” Final report prepared for
Forest Guardians, Santa Fe, NM,
November 1995.
Roach, Brian and John Loomis. “Economics Benefits,
Costs, and Regional Economic Effects of Deer and Livestock Management in the
East Lassen Deer Herd Management Area.”
Final Report to the California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
under Interagency Agreement No. 8CA17257, March 1993.
Ward, Frank A., Brian A. Roach, John B. Loomis,
Richard C. Ready, and Jim Henderson. “Regional Recreation Demand Models for
Large Reservoirs: Database Development, Model Estimation, and Management
Applications.” Final report to the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS under
cooperative agreement 91-COOP-1-6447, March 1995.
Ward, Frank A. and Brian A. Roach. “Recreation
Economic Benefits Analysis for Missouri River Mainstream and Reservoir
Projects.” Final report prepared for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri
River Division, Omaha, NE under cooperative agreement 91-COOP-1-6447, January
1994.
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1995. Major
in Environmental Policy Analysis.
M.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1990. Major in
Agricultural Economics.
B.S.,
Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture, 1987. Major in Agronomy,
minor in Business Administration.