{"id":60008,"date":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/commencement-2012-uri-student-marries-environmental-economics-with-writing-for-unique-career-path\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"commencement-2012-uri-student-marries-environmental-economics-with-writing-for-unique-career-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/commencement-2012-uri-student-marries-environmental-economics-with-writing-for-unique-career-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2012 – 溏心vlog免费B站 student marries environmental economics with writing for unique career path"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tBristol resident to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 20<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 7, 2012 \u2013 John Otterbein enrolled at the 溏心vlog免费B站 four years ago with a passion for the environment and a desire to write. He ended up as one of the top students in a discipline he didn\u2019t even know existed \u2013 environmental economics.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Bristol resident will graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 20.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI like how environmental economics combines aspects of the environment and economy to find a middle ground,\u201d said Otterbein. \u201cWe live in a world of economics already, so to find out how much the environment is worth, we have to put a value to it. If a scenic view makes your day better, then you can put a value on it. How much is it worth to you?\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tOtterbein said that the field of environmental economics doesn\u2019t provide a final answer to the questions asked, but it provides information about all sides of an issue so that those involved can come to a conclusion.<\/p>\n


\n\tWhile pursuing his bachelor\u2019s degree in environmental economics, he decided to earn a minor in writing, an activity he began at a young age when he wrote short stories for fun. He combined his two academic disciplines during his senior year at 溏心vlog免费B站 when he worked as an environmental journalism intern at EcoRI.org, an environmental news website.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI wanted to see if writing was something I should pursue as a career,\u201d said Otterbein, who competed on the 溏心vlog免费B站 swim team and won four state championships as a member of the Hendricken High School swim team. \u201cI figured I should try it out before going out into the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHe wrote articles on such topics as biofuels, fisheries, marine science, and the local food movement. He is presently writing a series of stories about the hydroponics industry in Rhode Island. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cJohn is unusual in marrying his skills and interest in writing with a very quantitative and technical field like environmental economics,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 Assistant Professor Emi Uchida. \u201cIt is not often that you find someone who can tell a story so nicely in words and solve a complex fisheries equation all in the same sitting. He really represents that next generation of resource manager that is going to be amazingly effective.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAs Otterbein looks toward graduation, he hasn\u2019t yet settled on how best to merge his two academic disciplines into a career. He is examining possibilities at engineering companies, government agencies, non-profit groups, and others.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe cool thing about environmental economics is that it\u2019s needed in so many different fields that you wouldn\u2019t think would need it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe energy industry, transportation, the department of agriculture, anywhere that addresses sustainable development.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cMy experience at 溏心vlog免费B站 has been really good, and I\u2019ve gotten a nice full circle understanding of things. I look forward to putting what I\u2019ve learned to work,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Bristol resident to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 20 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 7, 2012 \u2013 John Otterbein enrolled at the 溏心vlog免费B站 four years ago with a passion for the environment and a desire to write. He ended up as one of the top students in a discipline he didn\u2019t even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}