Department of Forestry Natural Resource Economics and Social Sciences

Event Coordinator

Josh Magnusson, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University
Contact: magnuss5@msu.edu

Team Leader

Raju Pokharel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Forest Resource Economics
Contact: raju2020@msu.edu | +1 (517) 353-9447 
Natural Resources Building, 480 Wilson Rd, Room. 208A, East Lansing, MI 48824
Department of Forestry, Michigan State University

Workshop Moderator

Emily Huff, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Human Dimensions of Forestry
Contact: ehuff@msu.edu | +1 (517) 884-8485 
Natural Resources Building, 480 Wilson Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824
Department of Forestry, Michigan State University

Travel and logistics Support

• Katie James,Research Administrator – Graduate Academic Program Coordinator, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University
  Contact: katjames@msu.edu | 517-353-5199
  • • Please contact Katie James for all travel related queries. 
• Majel Maes, Assistant to the Chair and Department, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University
  Contact: maesmaje@msu.edu | 517.355.0097

Note-takers and facilitators 

• Shivan Gc, PhD, Senior Research Assistant, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University
  Contact: gc@msu.edu
• Ichchha Thapa,  Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University
  Contact: thapaich@msu.edu 
• Tara Allohverdi, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University
  Contact: allohver@msu.edu 

Agency Partners

• Jagdish Poudel, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor, Forest Department of Forestry, Michigan State University  
  Forest Economist, Michigan Department of Natural  Natural Resources
  Contact: poudelja@msu.edu | PoudelJ@michigan.gov | +1 (517)-582-3101
• Ram Dahal, Ph.D., Forest Economist, Wisconsin Department of Natural  Natural Resources
  Contact: ram.dahal@wisconsin.gov 

 External Team 

• Greg Alward, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Policy Analysis Group, University of Idaho
  Contact: galward@uidaho.edu
• Larry Leefers, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
  Contact:  leefers@msu.edu 
• John Wagner, Ph.D., Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry
  Contact: jewagner@esf.edu 
• Omkar Joshi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
  Contact: omkar.joshi@okstate.edu
• Rajan Parajuli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
  Contact: rparaju@ncsu.edu 
• Gary Melow, Director, Michigan Biomass & Southeast Biopower Coalition, Michigan.
  Contact: gary.melow@michiganbiomass.com
• Basanta Lamsal, Graduate Research Assistant, SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry
  Contact: blamsal@esf.edu 

Expert participants

• Arun Regmi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Penn State University
  Contact: arun.regmi@psu.edu  
• Bijesh Mishra, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Auburn University
  Contact: bijesh.mishra@okstate.edu 
• Christopher Saffron, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Michigan State University
  Contact: saffronc@msu.edu
• Govinda R Timilsina, Ph.D.,Senior Research Economist, Sustainability and Infrastructure, Development Research Group, The World Bank
  Contact: gtimilsina@worldbank.org 
• Kylie Clay, Ph.D., , Associate Director, Forest Climate and Carbon Program, Michigan State University
  Contact: kclay@msu.edu
• Mahelet Fikru, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  Contact: fikruma@mst.edu 
• Patrick Duffy, Researcher III-Mechanical Engineering, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  Contact: Patrick.Duffy@nrel.gov  
• Prakash Nepal,  Ph.D.,Research Economist, Forest Products Laboratory, US Forest Service
  Contact: Prakash.Nepal@usda.gov
• Pralhad H. Burli, Ph.D., Economist, Modeling and Simulation, Idaho National Laboratory
  Contact: Pralhad.Burli@inl.gov
• Robert Idel, Ph.D., Director of Auction Economics, Tripadvisor 
  Contact: robert.idel@googlemail.com
• Sharon Klein, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Maine
  Contact: sharon.klein@maine.edu
• Stephanie Chizmar, Ph.D., Research Economist, Southern Research Station, US Forest Service
  Contact: Stephanie.Chizmar@usda.gov
• Suzanne Tegen, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy, Colorado State University
  Contact: Suzanne.Tegen@colostate.edu
• Thomas Ochuodho, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Forest Economics and Policy, University of Kentucky
  Contact: thomas.ochuodho@uky.edu