Christopher Costello, Professor, Resource Economics
Sustainable Fisheries Group, Principal Investigator

Chris is Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara.  He joined UCSB after receiving his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2000. His research is primarily in the area of natural resource management and property rights under uncertainty, with a particular emphasis on information, its value, and its effect on management decisions. He is also interested in the process and design of adaptive management programs in which learning (to resolve uncertainty or asymmetric information) is actively pursued. Topical interests include fisheries management, biological diversity, introduced species, regulation of polluting industries, and marine policy. Costello frequently collaborates with researchers outside of economics such as statistics, ecology, biogeography, and mathematics.   Costello serves as a science adviser to the Ocean Protection Council, the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, and the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea, and he is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.