Cooperators: Members

Andrew Ropicki, Ph.D

Assistant Professor and Extension Economist
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University and Texas Sea Grant

361-825-6210
andrew.ropicki@ag.tamu.edu

Dr. Andrew Ropicki is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University and the Marine Economist at Texas A&M University. His position entails statewide leadership and coordination of extension education programs and applied research on marine resource issues including seafood marketing, aquaculture, and fisheries management. Ropicki’s research includes a number of topics including: evaluation of fisheries management policy, fisheries and aquaculture economics, ecosystem service valuation, estimation of economic impacts associated with commercial and recreational fisheries, analysis of fisher social networks, and productivity of commercial fisheries. Dr. Ropicki is also a current member of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Special Socioeconomic Scientific and Statistical Committee and the National Sea Grant Law Center Advisory Committee. Dr. Ropicki has an M.S. in Finance (2004) and both an M.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2014) in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida.

Areas of work: Marine resource and fisheries economics, fisheries management, social network analysis, seafood demand economics, contingent valuation, and economic feasibility analysis

Curriculum Vitae