Trina Wellman, Ph.D.
Associate Marine Environmental Economist



Katharine (Trina) Wellman is an associate of Northern Economics based in Seattle, WA. Dr. Wellman holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Economics and an M.M.A. in Marine policy, both from the University of Washington, Seattle. She has worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Battelle Memorial Institute as a research scientist and natural resource economist. More recently she has been a private consultant in marine resource economics and coastal management. Her work includes authorship of two guides on the use of environmental valuation in coastal management and policy decision making, assessments of the economics of aquatic habitat restoration, the study, Assessment of Natural Resource Values and Economic and Environmental Impacts of Actions Selected for the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan, which was prepared for the Lower Columbia River Estuary Program by Battelle Research Centers and The Research Group. She contributed to Assessing Stakeholder Values for the Tillamook Bay National Estuary Project, a report prepared for USEPA Office of Ocean Coastal Protection Division and Tillamook National Estuary Project, Garibaldi, Oregon. She also participated in identifying and quantifying impacts of improved ocean observing system information on the various economic sectors that utilize such information within the states of Washington and Oregon for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She also co-authored the journal articles, “Bringing Stakeholder Values into Environmental Policy Choices: A Community-Based Estuary Case Study,” and “Assessing Stakeholder Values for Salmon Restoration in Willapa Bay, Washington.”

Claim to fame: Member of the Atlantic Clarion Steel Drum band and the first case of a resistant strain of malaria contracted in West Africa

Great escape: The Big Island of Hawaii and Sorrento, on the Maine coast.

Curious about: Hummingbirds and what makes people tick.

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[Patrick Burden] [Marcus Hartley] [Leah Cuyno]
[Mike Fisher] [Cal Kerr] [Kent Kovacs] [Diane Steele]
[Terri McCoy] [Jonathan King] [Bill Schenken]
[Don Schug] [Trina Wellman]

Staff Resumes:
[Patrick Burden] [Marcus Hartley] [Leah Cuyno]
[Mike Fisher] [Cal Kerr] [Kent Kovacs] [Diane Steele]
[Terri McCoy] [Jonathan King] [Bill Schenken]
[Don Schug] [Trina Wellman]


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