Degrees

• Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, 2005
• M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy, Tufts University, 1999
• M.S. in Information Systems, Northeastern University, 1985
• B.S. in Industrial Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1983

Affiliated Department

Economics

Scholarly and creative works

• Article in Refereed Journal

  Socioecological factors and farmer perceptions impacting pesticide use and pollinator conservation on cucurbit farms

  Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  2021

  Issue #5
  Elias H. Bloom, Dana M. Bauer, Abigail Kaminski, Ian Kaplan, Zsofia Szendrei
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Using landscape metrics to characterize towns along an urban-rural gradient

  Published in Landscape Ecology
  2021

  Vol. 36

  Issue #10
  Abigail R. Kaminski, Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Cynthia S. Loftin, Erik J. Nelson
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Using meta-analysis for large-scale ecosystem service valuation: Progress, prospects and challenges

  Published in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
  2020

  Vol. 49

  Issue #1
  Robert Johnston, Dana M. Bauer
• Presentations

  Farmer tradeoffs between pest control and pollinator health

  virtual Annual Meeting of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
  2020
  L Wu, Dana M. Bauer, S Atallah, Abigail R. Kaminski
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Classifying private landowners to improve understanding of management decisions and conservation opportunities in urbanizing forested landscapes

  Published in Journal of Environmental Management
  2019

  Vol. 232
  Jessica Balkus, Kathleen P. Bell, Dana M. Bauer
• Presentations

  How do social and economic factors influence vernal pool management?

  Translating Vernal Pool Research into Desired Management Outcomes

  Ashland, Massachusetts
  2018
  Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen Bell
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Managing small natural features: A synthesis of economic issues and emergent opportunities

  Published in Biological Conservation
  2017

  Vol. 211

  Issue #B
  Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Erik J. Nelson, Aram J.K. Calhoun
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Conserving small natural features with large ecological roles: A synthetic overview

  Published in Biological Conservation
  2017

  Vol. 211

  Issue #B
  Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr., Vicenc Acuna, Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Aram J.K. Calhoun, María R. Felipe-Lucia, James A. Fitzsimons, Eduardo González, Michael Kinnison, David Lindenmayer, Carolyn J. Lundquist, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Erik J. Nelson, Peter Poschlod
• Presentations

  Measuring the co-benefits of nature-based adaptation: the value of riparian buffers

  Economics of Natural and Nature-Based Coastal Adaptation – Separating Fact from Fiction for Resilience Decision Making

  Greenland, NH
  2017
  Dana M. Bauer
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Do exurban communities want more development?

  Published in Journal of Land Use Science
  2017

  Vol. 12

  Issue #5
  Dana M. Bauer, Stephen K. Swallow, Pengfei Liu, Robert Johnston
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Marginal land and the global land rush: A spatial exploration of contested lands and state-directed development in contemporary Ethiopia

  Published in Geoforum
  2017

  Vol. 82
  Rachel A. Nalepa, Anne G. Short Gianotti, Dana M. Bauer
• Other Scholarly or Creative Work

  Buffer Options for the Bay: Exploring the Trends, the Science, and the Options of Buffer Management in the Great Bay Watershed: Key Findings from Economic Literature. Report to Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
  

  Dana M. Bauer
• Other Scholarly or Creative Work

  Buffer Options for the Bay: Economic Valuation of Water Quality Ecosystem Services in New Hampshire’s Great Bay Watershed.  Report to Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

  Dana M. Bauer, Robert Johnston
• Presentations

  Managing spatially distributed small natural features that provide large-scale ecosystem services

  ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services: Linking Science, Practice, and Decision Making) 2016 Conference

  Jacksonville, FL
  2016
  Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Erik J. Nelson
• Article in Refereed Journal

  The macroeconomic cost of catastrophic pollinator declines

  Published in Ecological Economics
  2016

  Vol. 126
  Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
• Presentations

  Landowner decision-making in response to vernal pool regulations

  Conserving small natural features in urbanizing landscapes at the Northeast Natural History Conference

  Springfield, MA
  2016
  Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Jessica Balukas, B Holland, Erik J. Nelson
• Presentations

  Birds, bats, and bees: ecosystem services provided by mobile organisms

  SUNY Plattsburgh

  Plattsburgh, NY
  2015
  Dana M. Bauer
• Presentations

  Conserving small natural features with large ecosystem functions

  SUNY Plattsburgh

  Plattsburgh, NY
  2015
  Dana M. Bauer
• Presentations

  Using a hybrid regulatory approach to conserve small natural features: Lessons from Maine, USA

  Joint Annual Meetings of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association and the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society

  Newport, RI
  2015
  Kathleen P. Bell, Aram J. Calhoun, Dana M. Bauer, R Freeman, V Levesque, Jessica Balukas
• Chapters In Books

  The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics
  Chapter: Connecting ecosystem services to land use: implications for valuation and policy

  Published by Oxford University Press

  2014
  Robert J. Johnston, Stephen K. Swallow, Dana M. Bauer, Emi Uchida, Christopher M. Anderson
• Presentations

  Macroeconomic consequences of lost pollination services

  ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services: Linking Science, Practice, and Decision Making) 2014 Conference

  Washington, DC
  2014
  Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
• Presentations

  Pollination services and grower decision making

  ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services: Linking Science, Practice, and Decision Making) 2014 Conference

  Washington, DC
  2014
  Dana M. Bauer, J R. Smith
• Chapters In Books

  Valuing Ecosystem Services: Methodological Issues and Case Studies
  Chapter: Valuation of pollination services: a comparison of approaches

  Published by Edward Elgar Publishing

  2014
  Dana M. Bauer
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Pasture conversion and competitive land rents in the Amazon

  Published in Ecological Economics
  2014

  Vol. 97
  Michael L. Mann, Robert K. Kaufmann, Dana M. Bauer, Sucharita Gopal, Mallory Nomack, Jesse Y. Womack, Kerry Sullivan, Britaldo S. Soares-Filho
• Presentations

  Of pools and people: application of vernal pool amphibian landscape genetics in a socio-environmental coupled-systems model

  Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference

  Portland, ME
  2014
  Jared J. Homola, Michael T. Kinnison, Cynthia S. Loftin, Aram J. Calhoun, Kathleen P. Bell, Krista A. Capps, Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr, Dana M. Bauer, Erik J. Nelson
• Presentations

  Community-scale innovations to conserve natural resources: assessing patterns in interactions among state and local government policies

  Annual Meeting of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association

  Morgantown, WV
  2014
  Kathleen P. Bell, Dana M. Bauer, Erik J. Nelson, Jessica Balukas
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Conserving metapopulations in human-altered landscapes at the urban-rural fringe

  Published in Ecological Economics
  2013

  Vol. 95
  Dana M. Bauer, Stephen K. Swallow
• Presentations

  Economic consequences of pollinator declines

  ACES/EM/ESP (A Community on Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Markets, and the Ecosystem Partnership) 2012 Conference

  Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  2012
  Dana M. Bauer
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Ecosystem service value and agricultural conversion in the Amazon: implications for policy intervention

  Published in Environmental and Resource Economics
  2012

  Vol. 53
  Michael L. Mann, Robert K. Kaufmann, Dana M. Bauer, Sucharita Gopal, James G. Baldwin, Maria Del Carmen Vera-Diaz
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Marginal lands: the role of remote sensing in constructing landscapes for agrofuel development

  Published in Journal of Peasant Studies
  2012

  Vol. 39

  Issue #2
  Rachel A. Nalepa, Dana M. Bauer
• Presentations

  Direct and indirect welfare effects of global pollinator declines

  University of Maine

  Orono, ME
  2011
  Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
• Presentations

  Are wetland buffers cost-effective for species protection? 

  Wetland Buffers Symposium: Theory, Science, Policy and Implementation.

  Baraboo, WI
  2011
  Dana M. Bauer
• Presentations

  Agricultural and economy-wide effects of pollinator declines

  AAEA/NAREA Joint Annual Meeting

  Pittsburg, PA
  2011
  Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Ecosystem services provided by bats

  Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  2011
  Thomas H. Kunz, Elizabeth Braun de Torrez, Dana M. Bauer, Tatyana Lobova, Theodore H. Fleming
• Presentations

  Economic consequences of pollinator declines: A synthesis

  University of New Hampshire

  Durham, NH
  2010
  Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
• Article in Refereed Journal

  The economics of cropland conversion in Amazonia: the importance of agricultural rent

  Published in Ecological Economics
  2010

  Vol. 69
  Michael L. Mann, Robert K. Kaufmann, Dana M. Bauer, Sucharita Gopal, Maria Del Carmen Vera-Diaz, Daniel Nepstad, Frank Merry, Jennifer Kallay, Gregory S. Amacher
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Economic consequences of pollinator declines: A synthesis. 

  Published in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
  2010

  Vol. 39
  Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Are wetland regulations cost-effective for species protection? A case study of amphibian metapopulations

  Published in Ecological Applications
  2010

  Vol. 20

  Issue #3
  Dana M. Bauer, Peter W.C. Paton, Stephen K. Swallow
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Cost-effective species conservation in exurban communities: A spatial analysis

  Published in Resource and Energy Economics
  2010

  Vol. 32
  Dana M. Bauer, Stephen K. Swallow, Peter W.C. Paton
• Presentations

  Pollination services and agriculture: a world without vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry? 

  2010 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA) Annual Meeting

  Atlantic City, NJ
  2010
  Dana M. Bauer
• Presentations

  Valuing local carbon sequestration along an urban-to-rural gradient

  Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association

  Lowell, MA
  2010
  Dana M. Bauer, Lucy R. Hutyra, Steve M. Raciti

Awards and grants

• Conservation Incentives and the Socio-spatial Dynamics of Water Sustainability

  National Science Foundation (DISES Program)

  Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2026

• Informing Conservation Program Targeting for Cost-Effective Integrated Pollinator-Pest Management

  US Department of Agriculture (AFRI Program)

  Jun. 1, 2019 – Nov. 30, 2024

• Navigating the Trade-off between Pest Management and Pollinator Conservation in Cucurbits

  US Department of Agriculture (SCRI Program)

  Sep. 1, 2016 – Aug. 22, 2022

• Of Pools and People: Small natural features with large ecosystem functions in urbanizing landscapes

  National Science Foundation (CNH Program)

  Jan. 1, 2014 – Sep. 30, 2019

• Exploring the Trends, the Science, and the Options of Buffer Management in the Great Bay Watershed

  National Estuarine Research Reserve

  Feb. 1, 2016 – Jan. 31, 2018

• Integrated Economic Analysis of Ecosystem Services for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability

  US Department of Agriculture (AFRI Program)

  Sep. 1, 2011 – Aug. 31, 2012