Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Summary:
Research Areas: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Climate Change Economics and Policy, Applied Econometrics, Non-market Valuation, Water Policy, Coupled Natural and Human Systems
The Class of 2020 Student-Athletes Honored Professors, SUNY Geneseo 2019
Best Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech 2019
Paul J. Driscoll Graduate Fellowship, Virginia Tech
Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida (UF) Aug.2022 - Dec. 2025
Affiliated Faculty, Water Institute, UF Sep. 2022 – Dec. 2025
Affiliated Faculty, Global Food Systems Institute, UF Nov.2022 - Dec. 2025
Affiliated Faculty, School of Natural Resources and Environment, UF Apr.2023 - Dec. 2025
Affiliated Faculty, Florida Climate Institute May.2023 - Dec. 2025
Affiliated Faculty, AI2 Center Nov.2023 - Dec. 2025
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Remote Sensing Nov.2024 - Dec. 2025
Research Affiliate, Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center Jan.2024 - Dec. 2025
Weng, W., Yan, L., Boyle, K. J., & Parsons, G. (2023). COVID-19 and visitation to Central Park, New York City. Plos one, 18(9), e0290713.
Weng, W., Cobourn, K. M., Kemanian, A. R., Boyle, K. J., Shi, Y., Stachelek, J., & White, C. (2024). Quantifying co‐benefits of water quality policies: An integrated assessment model of land and nitrogen management. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 106(2), 547-572.
Yao, Z., Zhang, W., Ji, X., & Weng, W. (2023). Short-term exposure to air pollution and cognitive performance: new evidence from China’s college English test. Environmental and Resource Economics, 85(1), 211-237.
Weng, W., Morrison, M. D., Boyle, K. J., Boxall, P. C., & Rose, J. (2021). Effects of the number of alternatives in public good discrete choice experiments. Ecological Economics, 182, 106904.
Weng, W., Boyle, K. J., Farrell, K. J., Carey, C. C., Cobourn, K. M., Dugan, H. A., ... & Weathers, K. C. (2020). Coupling natural and human models in the context of a lake ecosystem: Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, USA. Ecological Economics, 169, 106556.
Stachelek, J., Weng, W., Carey, C. C., Kemanian, A. R., Cobourn, K. M., Wagner, T., ... & Soranno, P. A. (2020). Granular measures of agricultural land use influence lake nitrogen and phosphorus differently at macroscales. Ecological Applications, 30(8), e02187.