Professor
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University
Catherine L. Kling is a Tisch University Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. She serves as Faculty Director and Cornell Atkinson Scholar in the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and leads the Social Cost of Water Pollution working group.
Beyond Cornell, Kling chairs the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering, has been a member of six National Research Council studies, and served for ten years on EPA’s Science Advisory board. Dr. Kling is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resources Economists, a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Kling has published nearly 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters and is the past editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. She specializes in the economic valuation of ecosystem services and integrated assessment modeling for water quality modeling.
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin
Steven P. Loheide is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he is the Director of the Hydroecology Lab. His research is focused on interactions between ecological and hydrological processes in natural and built systems, and the competition for water among municipal and industrial users, agriculture, and natural ecosystems. He and his research group develop methods to quantify and understand the processes controlling the exchange of water between groundwater, vadose water, vegetation, streams and the atmosphere using a combination of field data, remote sensing, and numerical modeling.
Dr. Loheide is a member of the board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences (CUAHSI). He is co-founder and a major contributor to CUAHSI Virtual University, an inter-institution community of graduate students and educators in the hydrologic sciences that was developed to increase access to specialized hydrology courses for graduate students.