Susan Capalbo is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics and the Director of Special Projects for Enhancing Diversity, Office of the Vice President for Research, Creativity and Technology Transfer, both at Montana State University. She received her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at the University of California-Davis, her M.S. in Resource Economics and B.A. in Economics from the University of Rhode Island. Her research expertise is in multidisciplinary research (environmental-economic tradeoff analysis and climate change and carbon sequestration), natural resources, environmental quality, productivity analysis and production theory, and rural health care and cost-benefit analysis. Please see her curriculum vitae for further information.
CASMGS Research
"As the PI for the CASMGS project and research efforts, I am responsible for the overall objective of the funding which is to develop the data, models, and understanding needed to assess the potential for soil C sequestration in U.S. agriculture, and to communicate this information to stakeholders. As a member of the CASMGS Executive Committee, we are developing a vision of the final products that the research program will produce. This vision must begin with an understanding of how policies or markets for soil C sequestration could be designed and implemented. This understanding in turn should be used to guide the research agenda for data collection, modeling, and related analysis.
"I am also involved in the biophysical-economic modeling of agricultural production systems in the northern Great Plains. The objective is to conduct basic research to assess the economic feasibility of increasing soil C through changes in land use and related management practices and through the adoption of new technologies. Finally, we want to estimate and develop mechanisms to measure carbon levels made available as a result of land use changes. Key issues are how C rates for contracts with farmers will be established, how those rates will be verified over time, and how the practices specified in contracts will be monitored. The use of prototype policy or contract designs would be an effective way to prioritize the kinds of carbon level measurements that may be needed." |
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