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Bruce A. McCarl Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor and Texas AgriLife Faculty Fellow Distinguished Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Association PhD (Management Science), Pennsylvania State University BS (Business Statistics), University of Colorado Research Interest: Production and Resource Economics, Mathematical Programming, Policy, Climate Change, Water Policy, and Biosecurity Office Address: 340D Blocker 2124 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-2124 Contact Information: (979) 845-1706 (Office) (979) 862-8679 (Fax) Email Address: mccarl@tamu.edu Personal Website: http://agecon2.tamu.edu/people/faculty/mccarl-bruce/

About Dr. McCarl:
Dr. Bruce A. McCarl is Regents Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. in Business Statistics at the University of Colorado and Ph.D. in Management Science from Pennsylvania State University. His recent research efforts have largely involved policy analysis (mainly in climate change, climate change mitigation, water economics, and biosecurity) as well as the proper application of quantitative methods to such analyses. He teaches graduate courses in applied mathematical programming and applied risk analysis. He was part of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Selected Publications:
Hagerman, A.D., and B.A. McCarl, "Effects of Biosecurity Risk and Food Scare Events on Food Prices and Demand: Discussion", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 90, Issue 5, Pages 1287-1288, 2008.

Kim, M-K., B.A. McCarl, and B.C. Murray, "Permanence Discounting for Land-Based Carbon Sequestration", Ecological Economics, vol. 64, issue 4, 763-769, 2008.

McCarl, B.A., "Bioenergy in a greenhouse mitigating world", Choices, 23(1), 31-33, 2008.

McCarl, B.A., X. Villavicencio, and X.M. Wu, "Climate Change and Future Analysis: Is Stationarity Dying", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 90, Issue 5, 1242-1247, 2008.

Smith, P., D. Martino, Z. Cai, D. Gwary, H.H. Janzen, P. Kumar, B.A. McCarl, F. O'Mara, C. Rice, R. Scholes, O. Sirotenko, M. Howden, T. McAllister, S.M. Ogle, G. Pan, V. Romanenkov, U.A. Schneider, S. Towprayoon, M. Wattenbach, and J.E. Smith, "Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 363(1492), 789-813, 2008.