Travis Warziniack, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Travis Warziniack, Jennifer Costanza, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Linda A. Joyce, Christoper Mihia, Claire O'Dea, Sonja Oswalt, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Eric White. 2026. Current status, past trends, and future projections of renewable forest resources and ecosystem services across the United States
• Peter V. Caldwell, Katherine L. Martin, Justin S. Baker, Arpita Nehra, Elly T. Gay, Sagarika Rath, Travis Warziniack, Jennifer Costanza, Gregory E. Frey, Christopher Mihiar, Richard H. Manner, Stacy A. C. Nelson, James Vose, Raghavan Srinivasan. 2026. Benefits of Southern Forests for Drinking Water
• Ben Blachly, Charles Sims, Travis Warziniack. 2025. The welfare gains from diversified environmental policies
• Aubrey Benson, Bianca N. Eskelson, Travis Warziniack, Melissa R. McHale. 2025. From canopy to comfort: The impact of residential landscape choices on thermal dynamics in a semi-arid city
• David N. Wear, Travis Warziniack, Claire O'Dea, John W. Coulston. 2025. Changing hazards, exposure, and vulnerability in the conterminous United States 2020-2070
• Travis Warziniack, Ken Bagstad, Michael Knowles, Christopher Mihiar, Arpita Nehra, Charles Rhodes, Leslie Sanchez, Christopher Sichko, Charles B. Sims. 2025. Natural capital accounting on forested lands in the United States: An application to the Colorado River Basin (Chapter 7)
• Cibi Vishnu Chinnasamy, Mazdak Arabi, Peter Mayer, Grant Bernosky, Travis Warziniack. 2025. Characterizing patterns and drivers of single‐family household water uses in Arizona using high‐resolution smart‐metered data
• Travis Warziniack, Natalie A. Cooper, Melissa McHale. 2025. For more livable cities, researchers study climate up close and personal on the Colorado Front Range
• Arpita Nehra, Justin S. Baker, Peter V. Caldwell, Katherine L. Martin, Travis Warziniack, Richard Manner, Christopher Mihiar, Gregory E. Frey, Jennifer Costanza. 2025. The potential impact of forest loss on drinking water treatment costs in the southeastern U.S
• Leslie Sanchez, Paul R. Armsworth, Jasmine E. Bruno, Sebastian Espinoza, Kathleen Galvin, Varsha Vijay, Travis Warziniack. 2025. Multi-hazard risk in socially vulnerable communities across the United States
• Travis Warziniack, Elizabeth Cox, Pam M. Froemke, Delilah Jaworski, Josh Sidon. 2024. Vulnerability of ecosystem services along the Colorado Front Range (Chapter 11)
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Michelle Johnson, Natalia Piland, Dexter H. Locke, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Morgan Grove, Michele Romolini, Heather McMillen, Rachel Dacks, Bryce DuBois, Jesse Sayles, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Laura Landau, Lorien Jasny, Krista Heinlen, Maria Arroyave, Camille McCarthy, David Bloniarz, Brian Goldberg, Gerald Bauer, Travis Warziniack, Sophie Plitt, Julio Onofre, Nicole Heise Vigil, Arantxa Zamora-Rendon, Alejandra García Castro, Nicole Harmelin García, Bryan Flores. 2024. Reflecting on Local Ecological Stewardship, Care, and Action across Two Decades of Research
• Travis Warziniack, Lacey Allor, David Bunn, Melissa McHale. 2024. Forests as social ecological systems [Chapter 13]
• Ben Blachly, Charles Sims, Travis Warziniack. 2024. Evidence from over 700 U.S. watersheds
• Sylvia Kantor, Linda A. Joyce, Claire B. O’Dea, Matt C. Reeves, Travis Warziniack. 2024. Taking stock with the Resources Planning Act: The outlook for natural resources in the United States and the Rocky Mountain Region
• Philip A. Fay, Renee A. McPherson, Susan G. Alvarez, Darrian Bertrand, Taylor L. Broadbent, Tianna Bruno, Ali Fares, Brian McCullough, Georgianne W. Moore, Bee Moorhead, Laura Patino, Alexander “Sascha” Petersen, Nicholas G. Smith, Jean L. Steiner, April Taylor, Travis Warziniack, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Mark Junker, Gary McManus, Lauren E. Mullenbach, John W. Nielsen-Gammon, John A. Quinlan, Adrienne M. Wootten. 2024. Southern Great Plains [Chapter 26]
• Travis Warziniack, Robert Heinse, Alexander Fernald, Michael Gaffney, Kristiana Hansen, Bret Hess, Lyla Houglum, Ginger Paige, Qin Zhang. 2023. Western Water Network: A case study in water network formation
• Charles Sims, Ben Blachly, Travis Warziniack. 2023. Will ecosystem services attract investors?
• Matt Elmer, Chris Miller, Matt C. Reeves, Travis Warziniack. 2023. Forest vulnerability assessments—integrating social and ecological indicators and scores
• Peter V. Caldwell, Katherine L. Martin, James Vose, Justin S. Baker, Travis Warziniack, Jennifer Costanza, Gregory E. Frey, Arpita Nehra, Christopher Mihiar. 2023. Forested watersheds provide the highest water quality among all land cover types, but the benefit of this ecosystem service depends on landscape context
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Gwendolynn W. Bury, Linda A. Joyce, Shannon Kay, Michael Knowles, Mark D. D. Nelson, Travis Warziniack. 2023. Biodiversity: Wildlife and Aquatic Biota
• Travis Warziniack, Mazdak Arabi, Pamela Froemke, Rohini Ghosh, Hadi Heidari, Shaundra Rasmussen, Ryan Swartzentruber. 2023. Water Resources
• Jenny L. Apriesnig, Travis Warziniack, David C. Finnoff, Hongyan Zhang, Katherine D. Lee, Doran M. Mason, Edward S. Rutherford. 2022. The consequences of misrepresenting feedbacks in coupled human and environmental models
• Leslie Sanchez, Travis Warziniack, Michael Knowles. 2022. The inequitable exposure of socially vulnerable groups to water shortages across the United States
• Mostafa Shartaj, Jordan F. Suter, Travis Warziniack. 2022. Summer crowds: An analysis of USFS campground reservations during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Travis Warziniack, Mazdak Arabi, Thomas C. Brown, Pam M. Froemke, Rohini Ghosh, Shaunie Rasmussen, Ryan Swartzentruber. 2022. Projections of freshwater use in the United States under climate change
• Hadi Heidari, Mazdak Arabi, Travis Warziniack, Sybil Sharvelle. 2021. Effects of urban development patterns on municipal water shortage
• Hadi Heidari, Mazdak Arabi, Travis Warziniack. 2021. Vulnerability to water shortage under current and future water supply-demand conditions across U.S. river basins
• Cibi Vishnu Chinnasamy, Mazdak Arabi, Sybil Sharvelle, Travis Warziniack, Canon D. Furth, Andre Dozier. 2021. Characterization of municipal water uses in the Contiguous United States
• Hadi Heidari, Mazdak Arabi, Travis Warziniack, Shih-Chieh Kao. 2021. Shifts in hydroclimatology of US megaregions in response to climate change
• Hadi Heidari, Mazdak Arabi, Travis Warziniack. 2021. Effects of climate change on natural-caused fire activity in western U.S. National Forests
• Shaundra Rasmussen, Travis Warziniack, Abbye Neel, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Melissa McHale. 2021. When small is not beautiful: The unexpected impacts of trees and parcel size on metered water-use in a semi-arid city
• Lydia Olander, Katie Warnell, Travis Warziniack, Zoe Ghali, Chris Miller, Cathleen Neelan. 2021. Exploring the use of ecosystem services conceptual models to account for the benefits of public lands: An example from National Forest Planning in the United States
• Andrew M. Liebhold, Faith T. Campbell, Doria R. Gordon, Qinfeng Guo, Nathan P. P. Havill, Bradley Kinder, Richard A. MacKenzie, David R. Lance, Dean E. Pearson, Sharlene E. Sing, Travis Warziniack, Robert C. Venette, Denys Yemshanov. 2021. The Role of International Cooperation in Invasive Species Research
• Travis Warziniack, Robert G. Haight, Denys Yemshanov, Jenny L. Apriesnig, Tom Holmes, Amanda M. Countryman, John Rothlisberger, Christopher Haberland. 2021. Economics of Invasive Species
• Anne S. Marsh, Deborah C. Hayes, Patrice N. Klein, Nicole Zimmerman, Aliso Dalsimer, Douglas A. Burkett, Cynthia Huebner, Robert Rabaglia, Laura A. Meyerson, Bonnie L. Harper-Lore, Jamie L. Davidson, Marla R. Emery, Travis Warziniack, Rebecca Flitcroft, Becky K. Kerns, Vanessa M. Lopez. 2021. Sectoral Impacts of Invasive Species in the United States and Approaches to Management
• Hadi Heidari, Travis Warziniack, Thomas C. Brown, Mazdak Arabi. 2021. Impacts of climate change on hydroclimatic conditions of U.S. National Forests and Grasslands
• Zhaojun Wang, Duy Nong, Amanda M. Countryman, James J. Corbett, Travis Warziniack. 2020. Potential impacts of ballast water regulations on international trade, shipping patterns, and the global economy: An integrated transportation and economic modeling assessment
• Hadi Heidari, Mazdak Arabi, Mahshid Ghanbari, Travis Warziniack. 2020. A probabilistic approach for characterization of sub-annual socioeconomic drought intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) relationships in a changing environment
• Hadi Heidari, Mazdak Arabi, Travis Warziniack, Shih‐Chieh Kao. 2020. Assessing shifts in regional hydroclimatic conditions of U.S. river basins in response to climate change over the 21st century
• Travis Warziniack, Thomas C. Brown. 2019. The importance of municipal and agricultural demands in future water shortages in the United States
• Travis Warziniack, Charles Sims, Jessica Haas. 2019. Fire and the joint production of ecosystem services: A spatial-dynamic optimization approach
• Patricia A. Champ, James R. Meldrum, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Travis Warziniack, Christopher M. Barth, Lilia C. Falk, Jamie B. Gomez. 2019. Do actions speak louder than words? Comparing the effect of risk aversion on objective and self-reported mitigation measures
• Travis Warziniack, Patricia A. Champ, James Meldrum, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Christopher M. Barth, Lilia C. Falk. 2018. Responding to risky neighbors: Testing for spatial spillover effects for defensible space in a fire-prone WUI community
• Duy Nong, Amanda M. Countryman, Travis Warziniack, Erin K. Grey. 2018. Arctic sea routes: Potential new pathways for nonindigenous species spread
• Travis Warziniack, Matthew J. Elmer, Chris J. Miller, S. Karen Dante-Wood, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Michael C. Nichols, Grant M. Domke, Keith D. Stockmann, John G. Proctor, Allison M. Borchers. 2018. Effects of climate change on ecosystem services [Chapter 13]
• Amanda M. Countryman, Travis Warziniack, Erin Grey. 2018. Implications for U.S. trade and nonindigenous species risk resulting from increased economic integration of the Asia-Pacific Region
• Travis Warziniack, Megan Lawson, S. Karen Dante-Wood. 2018. Effects of climate change on ecosystem services in the Northern Rockies Region [Chapter 11]
• Tom Holmes, James Vose, Travis Warziniack, Bill Holman. 2017. Forest Ecosystem services: Water resources
• Seth Binder, Robert G. Haight, Stephen Polasky, Travis Warziniack, Miranda H. Mockrin, Robert Deal, Greg Arthaud. 2017. Assessment and valuation of forest ecosystem services: State of the science review
• Travis Warziniack, David Finnoff, Jenny Apriesnig. 2017. Description of the General Equilibrium Model of Ecosystem Services (GEMES)
• James R. Meldrum, Lilia C. Falk, Jamie Gomez, Christopher M. Barth, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Travis Warziniack, Patricia A. Champ. 2017. Living with wildfire in Telluride Fire Protection District, Colorado
• Travis Warziniack, Chi Ho Sham, Robert Morgan, Yasha Feferholtz. 2016. Effects of forest cover on drinking water treatment costs
• David M. Lodge, Paul W. Simonin, Stanley W. Burgiel, Reuben P. Keller, Jonathan M. Bossenbroek, Christopher L. Jerde, Andrew M. Kramer, Edward S. Rutherford, Matthew A. Barnes, Marion E. Wittmann, W. Lindsay Chadderton, Jenny L. Apriesnig, Dmitry Beletsky, Roger M. Cooke, John M. Drake, Scott P. Egan, David C. Finnoff, Crysta A. Gantz, Erin K. Grey, Michael H. Hoff, Jennifer G. Howeth, Richard A. Jensen, Eric R. Larson, Nicholas E. Mandrak, Doran M. Mason, Felix A. Martinez, Tammy J. Newcomb, John Rothlisberger, Andrew J. Tucker, Travis Warziniack, Hongyan Zhang. 2016. Risk analysis and bioeconomics of invasive species to inform policy and management
• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Linda E. Kruger, Karen Abt, Michael Bowker, Consuelo Brandeis, Dave E. Calkin, Geoffrey Donovan, Charlotte Ham, Thomas P. Holmes, Jeffrey Kline, Travis Warziniack. 2016. Economics and societal considerations of drought
• James R. Meldrum, Patricia A. Champ, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Travis Warziniack, Christopher M. Barth, Lilia C. Falk. 2015. Understanding gaps between the risk perceptions of wildland-urban interface (WUI) residents and wildfire professionals
• James R. Meldrum, Christopher Barth, Lilia Colter Falk, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Travis Warziniack, Patricia A. Champ. 2015. Living with wildfire in Delta County, Colorado: cross-community comparisons
• James R. Meldrum, Patricia A. Champ, Travis Warziniack, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Christopher M. Barth, Lilia C. Falk. 2014. Cost shared wildfire risk mitigation in Log Hill Mesa, Colorado: Survey evidence on participation and willingness to pay
• Travis Warziniack. 2014. A general equilibrium model of ecosystem services in a river basin
• Travis Warziniack, Matthew P. Thompson. 2013. Wildfire risk and optimal investments in watershed protection
• James R. Meldrum, Christopher M. Barth, Lilia Colter Falk, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Travis Warziniack, Patricia A. Champ. 2013. Living with wildfire in Log Hill Mesa, Colorado
• Travis Warziniack, David Finnoff, Jason F. Shogren. 2013. Public economics of hitchhiking species and tourism-based risk to ecosystem services
• Travis Warziniack. 2012. Degradation and damages from utilizing ecosystem services in a river basin
• Travis Warziniack, David Finnoff, Jonathan Bossenbroek, Jason F. Shogren, David Lodge. 2011. Stepping stones for biological invasion: A bioeconomic model of transferable risk
• Travis Warziniack, Jason F. Shogren, Gregory Parkhurst. 2007. Creating contiguous forest habitat: An experimental examination on incentives and communication

Data and Tools

• Dashboard
  

  Resources Planning Act Assessment Data Explorer

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/resources-planning-act-assessment-data-explorer
• Tool
  

  Ecosystem Service Toolkit

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/dataandtools/ecosystem-service-toolkit

• Program
  

  Human Dimensions

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/humandimensions
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Denver Urban Field Station

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/centers/urban
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Water from forests: Supply, value, and future risks to U.S. water resources

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/water-forests-supply-value-and-future-risks-us-water-resources
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Program
  

  Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/aldoleopold
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  National Ecosystem Services Strategy Team (NESST)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/nesst
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  The Stewardship Mapping Project (STEW-MAP): Denver

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/projects/stewmapdenver
• Project
  

  Boise Basin Experimental Forest Project: Science and Management working together to restore dry mixed-conifer forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/boise-basin-experimental-forest-project
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  The economic value of the nation’s forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/economic-value-nations-forests

Other Publications

• Notes
  

  Accounting for the Benefits of Public Lands

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/understory/accounting-benefits-public-lands

Multimedia

• Video

  Meet Travis Warziniack, Research Economist

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/meet-travis-warziniack-research-economist
• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Planning for Forests of the Future: Forest Products and Water Resources

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-planning-forests-future-forest-products-and-water-resources
• Webinars

  Accounting for the Benefits of Public Lands

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/accounting-benefits-public-lands
• Webinars

  Ecosystem services metrics in the US Forest Service: Water and watershed health

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/ecosystem-services-metrics-us-forest-service-water-and-watershed

• University of Wyoming, Ph.D., Natural Resource Economics, 2008
• University of Texas, M.S., Economics, 2001
• Louisiana State University, B.S., Economics and Math, 1998