Dr. Carson Reeling is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. His research is in the area of environmental economics with a focus on designing policies to manage nonpoint source pollution from agricultural lands. Carson is interested in enhancing environmental and financial sustainability of production agriculture through an understanding of producers’ participation in voluntary water quality and carbon trading programs.

Before joining the faculty at Purdue, Carson previously worked at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University and his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Spanish from the University of San Diego. Carson grew up in Bishop, CA and moved to Purdue with his wife, Sheree, and his daughters Charlotte and Stella.