Economics, Feasibility, Environmental Impacts and Policy of Bioenergy

Dwight Aakre
North Dakota State University Extension
Dwight.aakre@ndsu.edu
Interests: impact of biofuel on agriculture, ethanol industry expansion, statistics, projected growth, risks and economical impacts.

John Braden
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
jbb@express.cites.uiuc.edu
Interest: water resources and policies, biofuels, bioproducts.

David Bullock
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
dsbulloc@express.cites.uiuc.edu
Interests: economics and policy of bioenergy.

Kenneth Cassman
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Director, nebraska Center for Energy Science Research
kcassman1@unl.edu
iNterests: environmental sustainability of biofuel systems with a focus on net energy efficienty, greenhouse gas mitigation, impact on soil and water quality.

David Coltrain
Kansas State University Extension
coltrian@ksu.edu
Interests: biodiesel, risk factors and economic issues of ethanol production.

Mark David
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Departmtne of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
mbdavid@express.cites.uiuc.edu
Interests: water quality, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling, biogeochemistry, environmental impacts of biofuels.

Eric DeVuyst
North Dakota State University
Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
eric.devuyst@ndsu.edu
Interests: economic analysis of biogas generation from manure.

Kevin Dhuyvetter
Kansas State University Extension
kcd@ksu.edu
Interests: biofuels, farm management, livestock and crops.

Vernon Eidman
University of Minnesota
Department of Applied Economics
veidman@umn.edu
Interests: economics of renewable energy systems economics of ethanol.

Stan Ernst
Ohio State University
Department of Agriculture, Environmental and Development Economics
ernst.1@osu.edu
Interests: consumer attitudes toward renewable energy and biofuels.

T. Randall Fortenbery
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
trforten@wisc.edu
Interests: biodiesel feasibility.

Douglas Franklin
South Dakota State University
Department of Economics
douglas.franklin@sdstate.edu
Interests: perception of biotechnology, biotech produced by agricultural products and implications for risk management.

Sam Funk
Kansas State University
Ag Policy Specialist
funk@agecon.sku.edu
Interests: energy, ag policy, farm management.

Peter Goldsmith
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Executive Director of the National Soybean Research Laboratory
pgoldsmi@express.cites.uiuc.edu
Interests: biofuels business economics and strategy.

Bill Grunkemeyer
Ohio State University Extension
grunkemeyer.1@osu.edu
Interests: economics and policy.

Cole Gustafson
North Dakota State University
Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
cole.gustafson@ndsu.edu
Interests: insurance provisions for biofuel crops, integration of pea fractionation in existing ethanol production activities, risk management for biofuel producers.

Geoff Hewings
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Geography and Economics
hewings@express.cites.uiuc.edu
Interests: transportation and biofuels evaluation.

Casey Hoy
Ohio State University
Agroecosystems Management Program
hoy.1@osu.edu
Interests: bioenergy placing new demands on agricultural ecosystems (biological diversity, soil quality, enterprise diversity and vitality, and social organization and connectivity to maintain efficient flows and cycles of energy).

Chris Hurt
Purdue University
Department of Agricultural Economics
hurtc@purdue.edu
Interests: the impacts of biofuels on grain, livestock and food markets including acreage, rotations, prices, and distribution.

Terry Kastens
Kansas State University Extension
tkastens@agecon.ksu.edu
Interests: biofuels, policy, farm management.

James D. Kaufman
University of Missouri-Columbia
kaufmanjd@missouri.edu
Interests: the process economics of biofuel production at the ethanol facility and the supply chani, incorporation of efficiency, equity, regulation in emerging biotechnologies.

Jay Kesan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Departmtne of Law, Director of UIUC Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law
kesan @law.uiuc.edu
Interests: biofuels policy.

Madhu Khanna
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
khanna1@express.cities.uiuc.edu
Interests: modeling and economics of biofuels supply chain, economics and environmental effects of biofuel production.

Gregory Knott
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Associate Director of the Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research (CABER)
gknott63@ad.uiuc.edu
Interests: faciliation of UIUC campus bioenergy-related activities.

Won Koo
North Dakota State University
Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
won.koo@ndsu.edu
Interests: economic impact of ethanol production, feedstock transportation, handling and storage methods for ethanol processing plants.

Jennifer Kuzma
University of Minnesota
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
kuzma007@umn.edu
Interests: full cost accounting of energy systems, energy policy.

Alfred Marcus
University of Minnesota
Departmtne of Strategic Management and Organization
amarcus@umn.edu
Interests: marketing of hybrid vehicles.

Ron Miller
Ohio State University
miller1280@ag.ohio-state.edu
Interests: economics and policy.

Suranjan Panigrahi
North Dakota State University
Department of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering
s.panigrahi@ndsu.edu
Interests: development and evaluation of field scale sensors for rapid characterization of feedstock.

Steve Polasky
University of Minnesota
Department of Applied Economics
polasky@umn.edu
Interests: full cost accounting of energy systems, energy policy.

Douglas J. Reinemann
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
djreinem@facstaff.wisc.edu
Interests: renewable energy technology, distributed generation, land use issues associated with energy generation and transmission facilities, energy management on dairy farms and in food production systems.

Mathew Roberts
Ohio State University
Department of Agriculture, Environmental and Development Economics
roberts.628@osu.edu
Interests: economics and policy.

Sandra Scofield
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Director, Nebraska Rural Initiative
sscofield1@unl.edu
Interests: analyze issues, develop a decision support tool, and design and implement a statewide outreach program for Nebraska citizens.

Steve Sonka
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
ssonka@sab.uiuc.edu
Interests: anticipation of strategic change associated with growth of biofuels and the bioeconomy, with emphasis on implications for global food and agricultural systems.

Thomas Sporleder
Ohio State University
Department of Agriculture, Environmental and Development Economics
sporleder.1@osu.edu
Interests: economics of ethanol plants.

Robert Streiffer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
rstreiffer@wisc.edu
Interests: bioethics, broadly construed, focusing on ethical and policy issues arising from agricultural and biomedical biotechnology.

Robert L. Thompson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Departmtne of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
rlt@express.cites.uiuc.edu
Interests: biofuels in 2007 Farm Bill, economics of biofuels, impact of biofuels development on international agricultural trade, the coming global conflict between fuel and food from agriculture.

Wyatt Thompson
University of Missouri-Columbia
Departmtne of Agricultural Economics
thompsonw@missouri.edu
Interests: the effects of national and state policies to support ethanol use on ethanol and agricultural commodity markets.

Douglas Tiffany
University of Minnesota
Department of Applied Economics
tiffa002@umn.edu
Interests: economics of renewable energy systems, economics of ethanol.

Wallacy Tyner
Purdue University
Departmtne of Agricultural Economics
wtyner@purdue.edu
Interests: oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, and biomass energy, renewable energy policy alternatives for the future.

Evert Van der Sluis
South Dakota State University
Department of of Economics
evert.vandersluis@sdstate.edu
Interests: economics of biofuels and the system-wide (economic, ecological, agronomic) aspects associated with biofuels.

Gerald Warmann
South Dakota State University
Extension Farm Management Specialist
gerald.warmann@sdstate.edu
Interests: bioenergy feedstock costs and logistics.

William Wilson
North Dakota State University
Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
william.wilson@ndsu.edu
Interests: risk analysis, strategy, intellectual property, logistics and commodity marketing, assesses renewable fuel requirements of the U.S. grain and oilseed sector as part of the USDA's Current Research Information System project.