Ashley Lowe Mackenzie
Office 316
213 Ballard Extension Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
Research & Presentations
Environmental and Natural Resource 🌲
Provision of Environmental Public Goods 🏞️
Outdoor Recreational Economy 🏕
Applied Microeconomics 👩💻
Aspiring Econometrician λ
Non-Market Evaluation ⛰️
Behavioral Economics 📈
Benefit Cost Analysis ⚖️
History of Economic Thought 💡
Social Media 📱
Research
The Instragram Effect
Is social media changing our demand for public land?
Public lands in the United States have recently experienced a significant increase in visitation levels. Journalists and park managers suggest Instagram, a social media platform, is a reason for this increase. We explore this issue within Oregon State Parks using data on geotagged photo uploads to Instagram as a potential influential determinant of park visitation. Using a variety of model specifications, we show suggestive evidence that the provision of information by georeferenced content in Instagram can be correlated with increases in visitation ranging from 1.9 to 14.5 percent. We also find evidence that viral, or influential, social media post may influence visitation for many months after posting.
Presentations
People and Nature at OSU Nov. 17 2020
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Education 📖
Current Ph.D. student in Applied Economics
Expected Graduation in September, 2022
Masters in Applied Economics 2020
Bachelor of Science in Economics
Minor in Philosophy
Graduated Winter 2011
Associates of Art focus in Economics
Completed 2007
Employment
Instructor - Oregon State Unversity
Graduate Teaching Assistant - OSU
AEC 525 Applied Econometrics 2019
AEC 447 Agriculture Price and Market Analysis 2020
AEC/ECON 432 Environmental Law 2019
AEC 388 Agricultural Law 2018
AEC/ECON 352 Environmental Economics and Policy 2018
SUS 350 Sustainable Communities 2020
AEC 253 Environmental Law, Policy and Economics 2019
Undergraduate - PSU
STAT 105 Criminology Statistics 2009-10
Non-Acedemic Employment
Outdoor Recreation Economic Initiative
2020 Data Analyst Consultant
2013-14,19 Oregon Parks and Recreational Department
2019 Contractor - Data Analyst
2013-14 Park Ranger Assistant
Seasonal Recreational Employment
2012 T Lazy Ranch - Snow Mobiles
2012 Denali ATV - Tourism ATV Denali National Park
2009 Vahalla Lodge - Remote Alaska Fishing
2009 Yukon River - Tourism Artic Circle
Programming and Software Experience
Programming & Markup Language
HTML
CSS (bootstrap)
JavaScript (d3, C3, dc, leaflet, Jquery)
Markdown
Python
R
Examples of Website Design
Primary Environment (OpenSource)
Proprietary Software
MATLAB
STATA
Microsoft Office
ArcGIS
Developer Tools
Git
Github
Chrome DevTools
Awards and Scholarships
2020-21 - ◊ - D. Barton DeLoach Graduate Scholarship in Economics
2017, 2019 - ◊ - Lincoln County Foundation Hall Family Trust Scholarship
2017 - ◊ - Lincoln County Foundation Mark Dimock Scholarship
2017 - ◊ - OSU Emery Castle Scholarship in Economics
2009-2010 - ◊ - Newport, OR VIDA Education Savings Program
2009 - ◊ - Newport High School Doerfler Newport High School Scholarship
Personal Achievements
I am a avid backpacker 🗻and have made a documentaries on my thru-hikes of the Pacific Crest Trail and Continental Divide Trail 🎥
Thru-Hike Documentaries:
A thru-hike from Canada to Mexico of an approximatley 3,000 miles trail
VIDEO
Completed Jun 28-Nov 21. 2014
States Hiked:
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico.
A thru-hike from Mexico to Canada 2,660 miles
VIDEO
Completed Apr.-Oct 2011
Other Production
VIDEO
A Memorial Video narrated by my grandmother.
Presentations on Hikes
REI (Portland, Clackamas, Hillsboro)
Logsden Community Club
Newport Public Library
Rotary Club.