Item talk:Q44594

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T15:18:08.782204'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/kenneth-j-bagstad
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Ph.D. (Natural Resources, certificate in ecological economics), University of
     Vermont
   - M.S. (Plant Biology, concentration in ecology), Arizona State University
   - B.A. (Botany and Environmental Studies), Ohio Wesleyan University
   email: kjbagstad@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - economics
   - natural capital accounting
   - ecosystem services
   - artificial intelligence
   - semantic web
   - spatial analysis
   - environmental modeling
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - "Ken Bagstad is a Research Economist working with the USGS\u2019 Geosciences\
     \ and Environmental Change Science Center in Denver. He uses GIS and modeling\
     \ to quantify, map, and value ecosystem service flows across the United States\
     \ and internationally."
   name: Kenneth J. Bagstad, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0001-8857-5615
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/geosciences-and-environmental-change-science-center
   organization_name: Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
   personal_statement: Ken co-leads work to develop natural capital accounts in the
     United States at national and regional scales and use this information to support
     resource management for federal government agencies. Ken has also co-led the
     development of content for the Artificial Intelligence for Environment & Sustainability
     (ARIES) project, which has developed software tools to deliver more timely and
     accurate information for environmental decision making. Through his work on
     ARIES, Ken has a long-standing interest in the use of artificial intelligence,
     particularly semantics and machine reasoning, to make scientific data and models
     interoperable and reusable by both people and computers.From 2015-2016 Ken was
     seconded to the World Bank's Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services
     (WAVES) Program as a Senior Environmental Specialist. He coordinated the development
     of ecosystem accounts and their application to national economic accounts in
     Colombia, Costa Rica, and Rwanda, and assisted with their development elsewhere.
     For the last several years he has co-taught an ecosystem services modeling course
     in Spain, and in 2015 he worked in Japan as a Japan Society for the Promotion
     of Science research fellow.
   professional_experience:
   - Research Economist, USGS GECSC, 2013-present
   - Senior Environmental Specialist, Seconded to the Word Bank, 2015-2016
   - Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, USGS, 2011-2013
   title: Research Economist