Tracy Rouleau, President
Tracy Rouleau is the President and Owner of TBD Economics, LLC. She is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy and an Editorial Board Member for the Journal for Ocean and Coastal Economics. Previously, she was Deputy Chief Economist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the nexus for coordinating, empowering, and catalyzing the integration of the Social, Behavioral and Economic sciences across the Agency. She has served on or advised committees and subcommittees for the Council for Environmental Quality, Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Ocean Council, and other interagency bodies. Tracy established and chaired NOAA’s Social Science Committee, and NOAA’s Ecosystem Services team, and won awards for work in the Arctic, the Gulf of Mexico and on NOAA’s Social Science Needs Assessment. Tracy holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies/Coastal Resource Economics from San Jose State University, and completed her Ph.D. coursework and exams in Marine Policy/Fisheries Economics at the University of Delaware.
Jeff Adkins, Senior Economist
Jeffery Adkins has four decades of experience in the application of economics in a wide range of public sector contexts. Most relevant to this project, Adkins worked with NWS leadership to review and characterize NWS-funded studies, develop an approach to better reflect strategic considerations in future research agendas and to create a formal knowledge base that serves as a repository for research data and metadata. Other recent work includes studies of the economic value of carbon emissions and storage, the use of value chains to assess the value of improved weather forecasting and the satellite configurations that support them, the value of information, and a broad scope of economic studies for weather and climate applications. Other areas of expertise include economic analysis of inland and marine navigation, flood control, and shoreline engineering (22 years’ experience with USACE). Adkins is an editor for the Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, which publishes research related to the theory and practice of applying economic perspectives to the understanding of ocean and coastal resources and to coastal areas as economic regions.