Linwood Pendleton's Bio and Research

Dr. Linwood Pendleton is the Director of Ocean and Coastal Policy at Duke’s Nicholas Institute and serves as Acting Chief Economist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Before coming to Duke, Linwood was a Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Research at The Ocean Foundation, and Director of the Coastal Ocean Values Center. Linwood was a tenured Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at UCLA, an Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming, and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California.

Linwood is an expert in coastal and marine economics, especially using empirical methods to understand the effects of environmental change on economic uses of the ocean.  He works on coastal and marine recreation in the United States and Caribbean and marine fisheries in California, Panama and Brazil.