Kathleen Segerson is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics and at the University of Connecticut. She is an environmental economist, whose research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental policy instruments, with applications in the following areas: groundwater contamination, hazardous waste management, land use regulation, climate change and nonpoint pollution from agriculture. She also works on ecosystem services and the protection of marine species. Dr. Segerson is a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and was recently elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.