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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-10-02T16:15:43.424671'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/aaron-j-enriquez
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wyoming (2021)
   - M.S. in Economics, Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming
     (2017)
   - B.S. in Economics, University of Wyoming (2015)
   - B.S. in Biology, University of Wyoming (2015)
   email: aenriquez@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Wildlife Economics
   - Natural Resource Economics
   - Nonmarket Valuation
   - Outdoor Recreation
   - Bioeconomic Modeling
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Aaron Enriquez is a Research Economist in the Social and Economic Analysis Branch
     at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center. Broadly speaking, Aaron's research
     centers around the intersection of human and natural systems. His main areas
     of interest include the economics of wildlife, fisheries, and outdoor recreation,
     as well as the valuation of ecosystem goods and services.
   name: Aaron J Enriquez, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-0305-4333
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fort-collins-science-center
   organization_name: Fort Collins Science Center
   personal_statement: Aaron's passion for environment and natural resource (ENR)
     research stems from an interdisciplinary background. He has received a B.S.
     in Biology, a B.S. in Economics, an M.S. in Economics and ENR, and a Ph.D. in
     Economics, all from the University of Wyoming. Aaron is particularly interested
     in combining bioeconomic modeling and nonmarket valuation to better capture
     feedback between economic and ecological systems. As a graduate student, he
     applied this style of approach to human-grizzly bear interactions in the Greater
     Yellowstone Ecosystem. As a postdoc at the University of Alaska Anchorage, he
     estimated the nonmarket value of wild sockeye salmon using recreation permit
     data. Aaron has worked on many other ENR applications, including uncovering
     people's values for viewing individual wildlife species, determining people's
     willingness to pay to conserve wide-ranging wildlife, examining how people's
     risk perceptions influence their protective actions against wildlife and pests,
     and quantifying people's preferences for "ugly" agricultural produce.
   professional_experience:
   - Research Economist, USGS Fort Collins Science Center (2023 - present)
   - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage
     (2021 - 2023)
   - Research Assistant, Social Science Program, National Park Service (2020 - 2021)
   - Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Wyoming (2015 - 2021)
   title: Research Economist