
Dr. Ted Tomasi has more than 30 years of experience as a natural resource economist, specializing in the valuation of natural resources and environmental changes, risk management in the context of use decisions regarding resource use, and benefit–cost analysis. Before beginning his consulting career, he served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, and Michigan State University, where he taught and conducted research on environmental policy analysis, decision-making under uncertainty, and methods for valuing ecosystem services. For the past 20 years, Dr. Tomasi has been a consultant to large private companies on environmental decision-making, including issues related to net environmental benefits of remedial decisions, the value of information in managing risks, and liability management in environmental damage cases. He has provided litigation support and expert testimony on natural resource values in numerous such matters, large and small. Among Dr. Tomasi’s other projects are climate change and carbon sequestration evaluations, sustainability in agriculture and non-point pollution control, valuing the conservation of land, and evaluating restoration and mitigation/offset programs.
Dr. Tomasi served as an advisor and economic expert for NOAA’s Damage Assessment Center and sat on expert review panels for the Type-A natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) model for both the Great Lakes and the coastal and marine environments. He has published numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, and is a sought-after speaker in the area of environmental damage claims.
Ph.D., Natural Resource Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984
M.A., Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1979
B.A., Environment and Public Policy, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1978
University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, summer training program in survey research
American Economics Association
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Best Paper Award from the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1989
Ayers Brinser Award, University of Michigan, 1983
Election to Xi Sigma Pi, 1983
Resources for the Future Dissertation Fellowship, 1982
Horace H. Rackham Fellowship from the University of Michigan, 1979
Theodore D. Tomasi, Ph.D. Managing Principal
Dr. Ted Tomasi has more than 30 years of experience as a natural resource economist, specializing in the valuation of natural resources and environmental changes, risk management in the context of use decisions regarding resource use, and benefit–cost analysis. Before beginning his consulting career, he served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, and Michigan State University, where he taught and conducted research on environmental policy analysis, decision-making under uncertainty, and methods for valuing ecosystem services. For the past 20 years, Dr. Tomasi has been a consultant to large private companies on environmental decision-making, including ...
Dr. Ted Tomasi has more than 30 years of experience as a natural resource economist, specializing in the valuation of natural resources and environmental changes, risk management in the context of use decisions regarding resource use, and benefit–cost analysis. Before beginning his consulting career, he served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, and Michigan State University, where he taught and conducted research on environmental policy analysis, decision-making under uncertainty, and methods for valuing ecosystem services. For the past 20 years, Dr. Tomasi has been a consultant to large private companies on environmental decision-making, including issues related to net environmental benefits of remedial decisions, the value of information in managing risks, and liability management in environmental damage cases. He has provided litigation support and expert testimony on natural resource values in numerous such matters, large and small. Among Dr. Tomasi’s other projects are climate change and carbon sequestration evaluations, sustainability in agriculture and non-point pollution control, valuing the conservation of land, and evaluating restoration and mitigation/offset programs.
Dr. Tomasi served as an advisor and economic expert for NOAA’s Damage Assessment Center and sat on expert review panels for the Type-A natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) model for both the Great Lakes and the coastal and marine environments. He has published numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, and is a sought-after speaker in the area of environmental damage claims.


Using U.S. Natural Resource Damage Assessment to Understand the Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine
Publication
January 26 2023





Marine Resource Economics: Ted Tomasi Coauthors Paper That Advances Methods for Valuing Recreation
Press Release
January 26 2022

Environmental Justice and NRDA: Two Papers by Dr. Ted Tomasi Break New Ground
Press Release
December 20 2021
Considering Environmental Justice in Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Injury to Recreation Resources
White Paper
December 15 2021
Considering Environmental Justice in Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Injury to Ecological Resources
White Paper
December 15 2021




- NRDA For Contaminated Sites
- NRDA For Groundwater
- NRDA For Oil Spills
- Natural Resource Damage Assessment
- Climate Change
- Risk Assessment
- Environmental Decision-Making
- Recreation
- Land Valuation
- Environmental Economics
- Expert Testimony
NRDA For Contaminated Sites
NRDA For Groundwater
NRDA For Oil Spills
Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Climate Change
Risk Assessment
Environmental Decision-Making
Recreation
Land Valuation
Environmental Economics
Expert Testimony
- Rebuttal to the calculation of supposed Economic damages due to Ecosystem losses by Mr. Richard Cabera Vega September 8, 2008.
- Rebuttal to “Evaluation of Natural Resource Service Losses related to Oil Field Development in the concession” by Dr. Lawrence W. Barnthouse.