Dr. Susan Capalbo
Department Head and Professor
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Oregon State University
Susan Capalbo is currently Department Head and Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University. She leads a department that includes over 25 faculty throughout the State, and a nationally ranked Ph.D. program in applied economics with a focus on environmental and resource issues in the West. She received her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California-Davis and was until recently the Director of Special Research Projects in the Office of the Vice President for Research, Creativity and Technology Transfer and a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. She was the founding Director of the DOE Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (Big Sky Partnership) from 2003-2007 and provided the direction and leadership for a $20+ million partnership among industry, academics, and the government. The Partnership raised awareness of the opportunities to mitigate CO2 emission through geological and terrestrial sequestration opportunities. Her research on the economic potential for sequestration has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and public reports.
Susan Capalbo has developed an extensive program in the area of interdisciplinary science research and promoting women in the research arena at OSU and MSU. As the Director of Special Projects in the VPR Office at MSU, Susan has written and been awarded several diversity and social science research collaborative grants from NSF. She is the PI for an NSF ADVANCE Leadership Award to advance women as research leaders, the PI on a second NSF grant to quantify the value of diversity in the STEM disciplines. Finally she was recently awarded a prestigious Marie Thorpe Fellowship through the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the NSF ADVANCE program to integrate her research and leadership in area of climate change and economics of clean coal technology on a national and global basis.
