Leah H. Palm-Forster is an agricultural and environmental economist and an associate professor in the Department of Applied Economics & Statistics at the University of Delaware. Her research examines farmer decision making and the design of agri-environmental programs and policies to enhance ecosystem service provision in agricultural landscapes. Recent work also examines decision making under risk with a focus on coastal adaptation to climate change. Palm- Forster is the director of UD’s Center for Experimental & Applied Economics and director of the M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics graduate program. Palm-Forster is a research
fellow with the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-environmental Research (CBEAR), and she serves on the Executive Board of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) for the Chesapeake Bay Program. She is also an associate editor for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and chair of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association’s Career Advancement and Mentorship Program. Palm-Forster holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics from Michigan State University, and she earned M.S. and B.S. degrees at Virginia Tech.