Catherine L. Kling will deliver the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Economics and Policy: The Social Cost of Water Pollution.

Kling is the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University and the director of Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Previously, she was director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015. Kling specializes in the economic valuation of ecosystem services, water quality and interdisciplinary integrated assessment modeling. She chairs the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Kling is a fellow at the Association of Environmental and Resources Economists, the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development.  For 10 years, she served on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board.