Weizhe Weng | Ontario Agricultural College

Weizhe Weng

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Assistant Professor
Ontario Agricultural College
Email: 
wweng01@uoguelph.ca
Office: 
JH 119
Academic Unit: 
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

  • Ph.D. in Economics, Virginia Tech July 2019
  • M.S. in Economics, Jinan University June 2014
  • B.S. in Economics (with Honors), Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics July 2011
  • B.A. in English Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, July 2011
  • AERE Scholar, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 2024
  • Fellow, Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Career Advancement and Mentorship (CAM) Program 2021-2023
  • The Class of 2022 Student-Athletes Honored Professors, SUNY Geneseo 2022
  • Presidential Summer Faculty Fellowship, SUNY Geneseo 2020
  • 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.