Nicholas Institute Staff

Linwood Pendleton
Dr. Linwood Pendleton is the Director of Ocean and Coastal Policy at Duke’s Nicholas Institute. Before coming to Duke, Linwood was a Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Research at The Ocean Foundation, and Director of the Coastal Ocean Values Center. Linwood was a tenured Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at UCLA, an Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming, and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. Linwood has advanced degrees in Ecology from Princeton, Public Policy from Harvard, and a doctorate from Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Linwood is an expert in coastal and marine economics, especially using empirical methods to understand the effects of environmental change on economic uses of the ocean. He has worked on coastal and marine recreation in the United States and Caribbean, the historic purse seine fishery of southern California, marine fisheries in Panama and Brazil, and the effects of climate change on recreational fishing in New England.

Linwood and his family divide their year between their trawler in California, their coastal properties in Lubec, ME and the Bahamas, their saltbox in New Hampshire, and now Beaufort, North Carolina.