Guest Lecture on Smart Decisions for Environment and Climate Change: Big Data, Complexity, and Uncertainty

Dr. Timothy O. Randhir is a Professor of Watershed Management and Water Quality with the Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Dr. Randhir received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1995 and did post-doctoral work at Purdue University before joining University of Massachusetts as a faculty in 1997.

Dr. Randhir’s primary interests include: watershed management, water quality, ecological economics, complex systems, dynamic modeling and optimization, spatial analysis and simulation, Institutional economics, GIS-Internet-Simulation interfacing, systems modeling, climate change, land use policy, international trade and development, common pool resource management, nonpoint source pollution, and natural resources policy and management.