Kirsten Oleson

Kirsten is currently an Assistant Professor of Ecological Economics in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.  Previously, Kirsten was an NSF international research post-doc fellow in Madagascar studying the costs and benefits of adapting marine protection policies to projected impacts of climate change.

Before finishing her PhD with E-IPER (’07), Kirsten was trained as an environmental engineer at the University of Virginia (BS ‘96) and the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands (MS ’98). She also completed an MS in Applied Environmental Economics from Imperial College of London (’05).

Kirsten is an avid outdoor enthusiast, cyclist, hiker, yogi, volunteer, knitter, gardener, red wine drinker and live music aficionado. She is comfortable holding conversations over a beer or two in French, Spanish and Dutch.