Professional Communities

Professionals in Economics, Natural Resource Management.

Arne Risa Hole: Professor of Economics in Spain and working in the field of stated preference methods nad econometric anlaysis of discrete choice data. He has developed several Stata modules.
D-Econ Database: The Economics profession has long been too white, too male, too Western-centric, and too hostile to non-mainstream approaches. Today, a new tool – the D-Econ Database – is being launched to address this issue.
David A. Kenny: Structural Equation Modeling and Several other data analysis stuffs
David Dalpiaz: TA professor for the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His materials can be found on Github and Reddit. His other collaborators are Alex Reinhart and Cosma Shalizi.
David Stern, Energy, and Environmental Economists.
David Stockburger’s Web Pages: Several introductory materials related to statistics and probability.
Econometric Sense: A blog about econometrics, biostatistics, machine learning, experimental design, bioinformatics,…
Environmental Economics Blog
Eran Raviv, Ph.D.: THIS BLOG POSTS ABOUT ECONOMETRICS AND DEMONSTRATE EVERYTHING USING R. I studied Economics (BA), Applied Statistics (MSc), and Econometrics (Ph.D.). My interests: Applied Forecasting; Time Series Analysis; Dimension Reduction and Shrinkage Techniques; Statistics for high dimensional data (P-Values with many regressors); Factor Models; Forecasts Combination; and more. There is a lot of jargon going around regarding machine learning and data science, I personally think all of those terms fall under one category: modern statistics
German Rodriguez’s Statistics and Population. Statistics Professor at Princeton University. This website has several tutorials related to R, Stata, MarkDown, GLM, Survival Analysis
Green, William H.: Professor of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business. Also, check Econometric Analysis 8th Edition
Harvard Forest: The Harvard Forest is Harvard University’s 4,000-acre laboratory and classroom, with year-round staff dedicated to long-term science and experiential learning. Our mission is to advance our understanding of biological, physical, and human systems in the New England landscape. We share our research to help guide the stewardship of the planet.
Icek Ajzen, A professor of Psychology (Emeritus), University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Infrastructure of Democracy: State building as everyday practice in Nepal’s Agrarian Districts: This is a research project in Nepal conducted by a Geography Professor at James Madison University.
Jayson Lusk: Food and Agriculture Economist studies Food policy, consumer behavior, emerging food issues, livestock meat technology, and marketing.
Jerry J. Vaske: Professor of Natural Resource and Management, Colorado State University.
Joshep Kherski (Geographer Specialist).
Kate Raworth: Regenade economics focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges, and a creator of Doughnut of social and planetary boundary: Doughnut Economics.
Meha Jain, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Suraj Upadhaya: Personal website of Dr. Suraj Upadhaya, a forest ecologist and economist and social scientist.
O’Connell Lab: Dr. Timothy O’Connell’s Ornithology and Landscape Ecology Lab Website at Oklahoma State University.
Wetland Blog, The: Wading through wetlands, GIS and R.

Projects and Works in Natural Resource Sector:

Forest Vegetation Simulator: Forest growth simulation modeling tool developed by US Forest Service (USDA). It simulates forest vegetation change in response to natural succession, disturbance, and management.
Natural Capital Project, Stanford University.
Pine Map Project: Mapping the future of southern pine management in a changing world.

GIS Ps, GIS, and RS:

Applied Economics and Related Community:

AESSOnline: Association of Environmental Studies and Science: The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) serves the faculty, students, and staff of the 1000+ interdisciplinary environmental programs in North America and around the world. The Association facilitates the professional development of Association members not just as individuals but also to advance Environmental Studies and Sciences as a whole.
Ag Econ Search: Research in Agriculture and Applied Economics
AGORA: The Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) program is set up by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization to enable developing countries to access quality published research in the fields of food, agriculture, and environmental science, and related social sciences. AGORA is one of the five programs that make up Research4Life: AGORA, HINARI, OARE ARDI & GOALI. Institutions from several countries can register for free or with a nominal fee to get access to quality scientific information.
California Water Agencies, Association of: The largest statewide coalition of public water agencies in the country.
Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR), Forest News
Conversation, The: In-depth analysis, research, news, and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
CORTEVA Agriscience: The website describes it as the only agriscience company completely dedicated to agriculture by combining the strength of DuPont Pioneer, DuPont Crop Protection, and Dow AgroSciences. Go to the career section for more details.
Discussion forum: Ph.D. in Economics (Forum Created by URCH which has tonnes of resources about GMAT, GRE, eLearning, College Admission, and Networking).
Down South Hunting Podcasts: Several podcasts and information about deer hunting and related issues.
e-Agriculture: UN-FAO Agriculture Blog
Economics Incorporated: Cutting-edge research, analysis, and strategic advice to corporations, trade associations, government agencies, individuals, and the legal counsel world.
Elinor Ostrom, 1933-2012, Remembering
Farming First
Farming Matters (LEISA), India
Farm Progress (Circulation) (Group of farm magazines all across the USA)
Farm Progress (Marketing) (Find the connection between two farm progress)
Financial Review
Guardians: A global News Portal.
HINARI, WHO Access to Research in Health.Intelligent Economists
IDEAS: IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and is available freely on the internet.
Mongabay: News & Inspiration from Nature’s frontline.
Natural Resource Report.
Oak Woodland and Forest Fire Consortium.
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc): is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers.
Science Daily: Source of the Daily Research News.
Skeptical Science: Skeptical Science is a non-profit science education organization, run by a global team of volunteers. The goal of Skeptical Science is to explain what peer-reviewed science has to say about global warming.
Society of American Foresters Community.
Solve and Share: A Blog of Dr. Brian Wansink, a famous former food science and consumer behavior Researcher. He was a professor at Cornell University and received an Ig Nobel Prize in 2007 at Harvard University for his finding that people tend to eat more in a bottomless bowl. He wrote a blog post about “The Grad Student Who Never Said No” which received several criticisms for falsifying data, p-hacking and MTurk-iterating. As a result, his six papers got retracted from JAMA Network journals, his career as an academician and researcher was ruined, his teaching and research responsibilities and rights were revoked, and was investigated by Cornell University for falsifying data. He, eventually, retired. The controversies of his research and other related questions such as p-hacking were covered by several media including NPR, TIME, The Washington Post, Vox, SLATE, Sliced and Diced by BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed News about Paper Retracted, and in several blogs (Blog1, Blog2, Blog3) by Andrew Gelman.
Spatial Reserves: A guide to public domain spatial data.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
The World Bank Development and Impact Evaluation (DIME).
Western Forest Economists
Young Professionals for Agriculture Development (YPARD).

Agencies in the USA:

National Agriculture Law Center
National Center for Environmental Information (NOAA)
National Timber Tax Website, Tax management for Timberland Owner: The National Timber Tax Website was developed to be used by timberland owners, as well as a reference for accountants, attorneys, consulting foresters, and other professionals who work with timberland owners regarding the tax treatment of timber-related activities.
Rural Health Information Hub (Formerly Known as The Rural Assistance Center): RHIHub provides access to current and reliable tools to help to learn about rural health needs and works to address them.
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE): Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture. It has four different regional bodies as follows:
United States Department of Agriculture: Official website of USA governmental body in the agriculture sector. It has several branches which are listed below:
- National Agricultural Statistics Services (NASS): Statistics branch of the USDA.
- Economic Research Service (ERS): Component of USDA. Provides Information and research on agriculture and economics.
USDA US Forest Services:

Kentucky

Kentucky Department of Agriculture: Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) is an organization that keeps records of all agricultural activities throughout Kentucky as well as runs various programs related to agriculture.
Kentucky Academy of Science

Oklahoma

Department of Commerce, Oklahoma
Ecoregions of Oklahoma
Extension Fact Sheets, Oklahoma State University from Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. OSU Extension is in the process of migrating all fact sheets to a web-based mobile-friendly platform. The Pdf version of the fact sheet can be accessed from DocuShare.
Forestry Service, Oklahoma
Hunting, Oklahoma
Oklahoma National Stockyards, Livestock Stock Auction, and The Cattle Range to know about the cattle auction market in Oklahoma.
Natural Resources Conservation Service, Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s Diverse Forests
Prescribed Fire Council, Oklahoma
Trees of Oklahoma

Nepalese Governmental Organizations

Ag Learn: Nepal based MOOC Online Course
Alternate Energy Promotion Center, Nepal
Bhanu Municipality, Tanahun, Nepal
Centre Bureau of Statistics, NPCS, Nepal
Department of Foreign Employment, Nepal
Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Nepal
Department of Agriculture MOA, Nepal
Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal
Embassy of Nepal in USA, Washington DC, USA
Jaimini Municipality, Baglung Nepal
Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment Mountain Initiative
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment Nepal Climate Change and Development Portal
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Science and Technology
Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment, Climate Nepal
Ministry of Agriculture Development, Nepal
Ministry of Education, Nepal
Ministry of Energy, Nepal
Ministry of General Administration, Nepal
Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of Science and Technology, Nepal
National Geographic Information Infrastructure Program
Nepal Agriculture Research Council
Nepal Development Research Institute
Nepal Electricity Authority, Nepal
Nepal Planning Commission
Office of the Exam Controller, MoE/GoN (Check Your Marksheet of SLC)
Online Driving License Application in Nepal
Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihood, Nepal
Sthaniya Taha, (स्थानीय तहहरुको विवरण), Nepal: Also check the Websites of all local governments (स्थानीय तहको वेवसाईटको विवरण) of Nepal in Municipality level and website of the ministry. Details of this work can be read at this link.
Water and Energy Commission Secretariat, Nepal

Nepal Based Non-governmental Organizations

Non-governmental Organizations Globally

Journal of Interests:

Choice Magazine (A publication of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association).
Economics Ph.D. Econ Wiki (Managed by Christian Roessler and Now by TestMagic Community. Their ranking of “current faculty resource” was cited by NCSU Natural Resource Program).
Journal of Choice Modeling
Nature: One of the most renowned journals in the world.
- Nature Research Journal Index
- Nature Human Behaviour
Research Papers in Economics
Science Magazine: One of the most renowned journals in the world.
Stata Journal
Statistical Software, Journal of
USDA ERS Publications
USGS Publication Warehouse

Blogs and Websites of Interest:

Beef Runner: This blog was named Agriculture Proud before.
Data Science Blog
Louisiana Agro-tourism
Wetland Blog, The: Wading through wetlands, GIS and R.
Write the Docs: Write the Docs is a global community of people who care about documentation. We have a Slack community, conferences on 3 continents, and local meetups!

FOSS Community:

The list of professionals, community, organizations, and people who are enthusiastic about free and open-source tools development and use.

Alternate.me
Ask Ubuntu
Boundless: Because, location matters: A Leading group of Open source GIS, location-based data, Software Developers, and geospatial experts.
Center for Open Science: Free and easy to use the open science framework supports the entire research lifecycle: planning, execution, reporting, archiving, and discovery.
Data Carpentry: Building community teaching universal data literacy. Software Carpentry: Teaching basic lab skills for research computing. Also, Visit OSU Carpentry.
GIT Hub: Development platform to host and develop codes, and projects, build software and collaborate with other developers.
Geomorphometry and Hydro-geomatics Research Group: Prof. John Lindsay at the University of Guelph’s research group.
GeoServer: GeoServer is an open-source server for sharing geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.
Internet Archive: Digital library of free books, audio, movies, etc.
Open Data for Resilience Initiative
Opensource.com: Open-source information and knowledge
Slack
Ubuntu Texas LoCo Team

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