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Professor RANDHIR, TIMOTHY (Amherst)
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation

Phone: (413) 545-3969
Email: Randhir@eco.umass.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Watershed Science and Management

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1995 - Ph.D., Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

1988 - M.S., Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Ag. University

1982 - B. S., Annamalai University

Professional History:
1997 - Current - Assistant Professor (Watershed Management/Water Quality)

1996 - 1997 - Natural Resource Economist (Post Doctorate)

1991 - 1995 - Graduate Research Assistant

1989 - 1991 - Assistant Professor

Current Research Support:
USDA - CSREES. "Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Quality in a Suburbanizing Watershed," $600,000 (pending). Multidisciplinary proposal. PI's: Jackson, Randhir, and Ahern.

EPA - Empact Grant. "Connecting Headwaters in Worcester - Shrewsbury area of Massachusetts" $370,000 (pending) with multi - agency collaboration.

EOEA/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts. "Watershed Initiative - UMASS - EOEA Contract" $380,000 (completed).

EPA/NSF/USDA. Human and Ecosystem Dynamics under Increasing Impervious Structures in Urban Watersheds: A Community - based Approach to Education and Restoration. $0.9 million (pending). P. I., T.O.Randhir. Co - PIs: R. Platt, C. Griffin, J. Ahern, and D. Bloniarz.

Selected Publications:
Randhir, T. O., J. G. Lee, and B. Engel. 2000. Multiple Criteria Dynamic Spatial Optimization to Manage Water Quality on a Watershed Scale. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. 43(2): 291 - 299.

Randhir, T. O., and J. G. Lee. 2000. Effect of Water Quality Standards on Farm Income, Risk and NPS Pollution. In Press. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), October issue.

Randhir, T.O., R. O'Conner, P. Penner, D. Goodwin. (Expected 2000). "A Watershed - Based Land Prioritization Model to Protect Water Quality." Forthcoming in Forest Ecology and Management.

Loehman, E. T., and T. O. Randhir. 1999. "Resource Degradation and Income Inequality: Alleviating Effects of Externalities in a Dynamic Setting." Ecological Economics. 29(1).

Randhir, T. O. 1999. "Interactive Community Decision Modeling: Public Involvement in Watershed Policy Research." In Kendy, E. Science Into Policy: Water in the Public Realm. American Water Resources Association.