The Economic Benefit of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS). U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Environmental Studies Program: September 2013 - August 2016. Principal Investigators: R.H. Caffey, J.M. Fannin, D.R. Petrolia, and M.A. Savolainen. Funded, amount: $375,823.

Savolainen, M.A., J.M. Fannin, and R.H. Caffey. 2014. "Economic Impacts of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Recreational For-Hire Fishing Industry." Human Dimensions of Wildlife 19(1):72-87, doi: 10.1080/10871209.2014.843220.

Savolainen, M.A., R.F. Kazmierczak, and R.H. Caffey. 2013. "Resiliency of the Coastal Recreational For-Hire Fishing Industry to Natural Disasters." Estuaries and Coasts. Published online June 6, 2013, doi: 10.1007/s12237-013-9648-6.

Savolainen, M.A. 2012. Storm Surge Attenuation from Coastal Wetlands: A Review of the Literature with a Focus on Louisiana. Report to Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, 17 pp.

Savolainen, M.A., R.H. Caffey, and R.F. Kazmierczak. 2012. Economic and Attitudinal Perspectives of the Recreational for Hire Fishing Industry in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Final report to NOAA-Fisheries, Contract Number 674139B, 171 pp.

Savolainen, M.A., R.H. Caffey, and R.F. Kazmierczak. 2011. "The Recreational For-Hire Sector in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: Structural and Economic Observations from the Third Decadal Survey." Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, Puerto Morelos, Mexico 64: 102-113.

Caffey, R.H. and M.A. Savolainen. 2011. A Cooperative Research Survey of the Recreational For-Hire Fishing Sector in Louisiana. Preliminary Findings and Final Contract Report to Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 51 pp.

2015: Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA)

2014: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference (Mobile, AL)

2013: Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference (San Diego, CA), North American Association of Fisheries Economists Conference (St. Petersburg, FL), Center for Natural Resource Economics and Policy Conference (New Orleans, LA)

2012: Pathways to Success Conference (Breckenridge, CO), Annual W2004 Meeting (Cedar Key, FL), 6th World Fisheries Congress (Edinburgh, Scotland), Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission 52nd Annual Spring Meeting (Gulfport, MS), Spring Meeting for the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society (Biloxi, MS)

2011: Quarterly Louisiana Sea Grant Marine Extension Meeting (Grand Isle, LA), North American Association of Fisheries Economists Conference (Honolulu, HI)

2010: Southern Economic Association Conference (Atlanta, GA), Center for Natural Resource Economics and Policy Conference (New Orleans, LA)

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural Economics, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 6/2015 - present

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 2009 - 2015

Econometrics, natural resource economics, ecosystem service valuation

Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, Louisiana State University, 2015

M.S., Agricultural and Resource Economics, Louisiana State University, 2012

B.B.A., Business Administration and Management, Texas Woman's University, 2007