Anthony Dvarskas, Assistant Professor

Anthony is the head of the Environmental Economics Lab at Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. His research interests are in the incorporation of nature’s benefits into coastal planning decisions, with a particular focus on water quality valuation and accounting, resilience of economic-ecologic systems to changing environmental conditions and human interventions, and the structure of supply chains for ecosystem goods and services. Prior to joining Stony Brook, Anthony worked as a statistician in the Environmental-Economic Accounting section of the United Nations Statistics Division and as an Economist with the Office of Response and Restoration at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He received his Ph.D. in Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences from the University of Maryland.

John Bohorquez, PhD Student

John is a Ph.D. student with Dr. Anthony Dvarskas and Dr. Ellen K. Pikitch at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University. John’s thesis research primarily focuses on economics and sustainable finance of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). His broader research interests also include environmental economics and biological oceanography, including a current Dvarskas Lab project evaluating the economic impacts and benefits of shellfish aquaculture to the Long Island Sound region. Before becoming part of IOCS, John worked in finance, most recently as an Acquisitions Analyst at Urban American Management LLC, a New York based private equity fund that invests in commercial real estate and energy retrofits. Prior, he was an Analyst at EMAX LLC, a consulting firm specializing in real estate and renewable energy developments with the federal government. John’s experience in energy and sustainability also extends to Latin America with Fusion LatAm LLC, based in Bogotá, Colombia.

John holds a B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College, where he also minored in Earth and Oceanographic Sciences.

Lab Alumni

Mark Nepf, MS Graduate

Mark is an MS graduate from the Dvarskas Lab from 2015 to 2017. While here, he worked on a hedonic analysis of Suffolk County residential real estate, with a focus on the potential impact of coastal water clarity. By determining if improved water clarity could positively influence housing values, he aimed to provide an economic measure of the benefits of coastal remediation. Mark attended Marist College for his undergraduate degree, where he studied economics and environmental policy. After graduating from Stony Brook, Mark accepted a position with Resources For The Future, in Washington, DC, where he is working on similar environmental valuation studies.