Robert D. Rowe
Robert D. Rowe is an economist with, and President of, Stratus Consulting, Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University (1975), and previously served as faculty member at the University of Wyoming. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and has 15 years services as a consultant member of EPA Science Advisory Board committees dealing with air pollution standards and benefit-cost analyses. For 25 years he has conducted research on the human health and welfare impacts of air pollution and the economic valuation of these impacts, the benefits and costs of alternative regulatory strategies on the national and state levels, and on the air pollution externalities from electricity production and from transportation. In addition, Dr. Rowe has served as a lead expert for multiple Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA), generally for public trustees and conducted numerous recreation economic assessments. His current work includes primary research on the valuation of mortality risk reduction for the U.S. EPA and Health Canada, valuation of protection for endangered Steller Sea Lions for the NMFS, cost-of-illness valuation for Health Canada, and ongoing NRDAs.