People

Director

Jason Scorse

Director, Center for the Blue Economy; Program Chair, International Environmental Policy; Associate Professor

Office: 102 C McCone
Email: jason.scorse@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3548

Expertise: 

Environmental and natural resource economics, international economics, behavioral economics, environmental policy, econometrics and statistics

Staff

Charles Colgan

Lead Market Economist, National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP)

Office: University of Southern Maine
Email: CSC@usm.maine.edu
Phone: 207.780.4008

Expertise: 

Ocean economics, transportation and economic development, urban planning, policy analysis

Monica Galligan

Program Manager

Office: McCone
Email: mgalligan@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Socioeconomics of marine fisheries

Pat Johnston

Data Manager, National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP)

Email: Pat@OceanEconomics.org

Expertise: 

Information systems, website development, database maintenance

Judith Kildow

Director, National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP)

Email: judy@oceaneconomic.org
Phone: 831.402.5153

Expertise: 

Economics of ocean and coastal resources, climate change, coastal management

Affiliated Faculty

Fernando DePaolis

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building 113
Email: fdepaolis@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3568

Expertise: 

Regional economic development, quantitative methods, mathematical modeling, North American Free Trade Agreement

Enrique Alonso García

Permanent Councilor of State of the Spanish Government, Adjunct Professor

Email: enrique.alonso@consejo-estado.es

Expertise: 

Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Marine Policy, Access to Marine Genetic Resources, Offshore Marine Protected Areas, Fisheries and Marine Resources Management, Energy and the Marine Environment, Shipping,  Marine Data Bases Interoperability, Seascapes, Marine Bioacoustics, North American Free Trade Agreement and Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, Vessels Interception, Oil Spills Prevention and Management, Multilateral Marine-related Conventions Negotiations, Cetaceans, Marine Animals Welfare, European Union Law and Policy, Food safety, Algae Collections Management.

Jeff Langholz

Associate Professor

Office: 214 McCone
Email: jeff.langholz@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6418

Expertise: 

Biodiversity conservation, environmental conflict management, international environmental policy, protected natural areas, research methods, program evaluation, social entrepreneurship, adaptive management, conservation leadership, sustainable development

Jim Williams

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: jim.williams@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6426

Expertise: 

Interdisciplinary energy and environmental analysis, political economy of energy, science and technology policy, energy resources and policy, climate change policy, electric power systems, engineering-economic modeling, Asian energy

Lyuba Zarsky

Associate Professor

Office: 119 McCone
Email: Lyuba.Zarsky@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6436

Expertise: 

Sustainable development, business and sustainability, foreign direct investment and the environment, collaborative governance, development economics, global environmental governance, livelihood-based resource management

Video interview of Dr. Zarsky

Advisory Board

Coming Soon

The Monterey Institute has dozens of faculty in fields relevant to ocean and coastal resource management, including development, trade, business, security, and public administration. In addition, students can take courses with top marine scientists at our neighboring institutions. The Center for the Blue Economy will soon be hiring new faculty and staff that will be added to this page.