My research focuses on the decades-long collective action problem of agricultural nonpoint source pollution. I am particularly interested in the role of collective action in agricultural landscapes, especially how farmers, government, and society cooperate to navigate tradeoffs between agricultural production and conservation. In addition, I study the influence of biophysical conditions, infrastructure, and monitoring data in shaping feedbacks between social and natural systems. I study these aspects of environmental governance using mixed methods of semi-structured interviews, spatial analysis, and inferential statistics.
I also participate in two interdisciplinary research communities: the International Association for the Study of the Commons and the International Association for Society and Natural Resources. At IU, I’m also affiliated with the Environmental Resilience Institute and the Ostrom Workshop.
