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Office Location:	A122 Levine Science Research Center
Office Phone:	613-8028
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Web Page:	http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/smith.html

Current projects: evaluating the economic impacts of marine reserves for fisheries management, analyzing behavioral heterogeneity and dynamic decision-making of individual commercial fishermen, using portfolio theory to guide ecosystem-based management of fisheries, estimating the costs of estuarine pollution with a bioeconomic predator-prey model, empirical modeling of beach nourishment decisions and the dynamics of coastline change Professor Smith earned his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Davis and joined the Duke faculty in 2001. He is an associate editor of Marine Resource Economics. His research focuses on spatial issues in natural resource use and management with a particular emphasis on the economics of marine resources. Combining econometric analysis of individual resource use decisions with bioeconomic modeling, he strives to understand human impacts on the resource base and the dynamics of these coupled human-natural systems.