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I have worked at Clemson University since July 2000. In my twenty-five years here I have taught courses in environmental and natural resource economics, microeconomics for public policy, managerial economics, environmental sustainability, applied mathematical economics, dynamic optimization with economic applications, and introductory statistics. My research interests focus on laboratory experiments about dynamic efficiency, adoption and valuation of institutional and technical innovations that affect environmental quality, sustainable use of natural resources, and regional economics. I coordinated the MA in Economics program from January 2017 until July 2024 and the MS in Economic Analytics from its inception in August 2020 until July 2024. I coordinated the Bachelor-to-Graduate parts of the MA and MS programs from August 2024 through May 2025. I have been a member of Clemson's MBA Council since August 2012 and its Sustainability Commission since December 2024.

Research Interests

• During the past five years I have conducted economic research in three areas: 1) tests of prices and dynamically efficient use of non-renewable resources with data from experimental markets, 2) bio-economic survival of trees with pitch canker in California's urban forests, and 3) spread of the use of irrigation by farmers in coastal states of the South Atlantic USA during the past 20 years.

Research Publications

• Templeton, S. and J. Keith Gilless. 2023. Peter Berck’s Contributions to Forestry Economics. D. Zilberman, J. M. Perloff, and C. Berck (eds.) Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century – Essays in Memory of Peter Berck. Natural Resource Management and Policy, 57, Springer Nature: Cham, Switzerland.
• Wood, D. B. McPherson, S. Templeton, and N. Gillette. 2023. Integrated Management of Bark Beetles: Economic Contributions of Peter Berck and Foundational Entomological Research. D. Zilberman, J. M. Perloff, and C. Berck (eds.) Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century – Essays in Memory of Peter Berck. Natural Resource Management and Policy, 57, Springer Nature: Cham, Switzerland.
• Templeton, S., A. Hooper, H. Aldridge, and N. Breuer. 2018. Farmer Interest in and Uses of Climate Forecasts for Florida and the Carolinas: Conditional Perspectives of Extension Personnel. Weather, Climate, and Society 10 (1, Jan.): 103-120
• Templeton, S., M. Shane Perkins, William C. Bridges, Jr., Heather Dinon Aldridge, and Bridget Robinson Lassiter. 2014. Usefulness and Uses of Climate Forecasts for Agricultural Extension in South Carolina, USA. Regional Environmental Change 14 (2, April): 645-655.
• Templeton, S., William Sessions, Liv Haselbach, Wallace Campbell, and John C. Hayes. 2010. What Explains the Incidence of the Use of a Common Sediment Control on Lots with Houses under Construction? Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (1, February): 57-68.
• Templeton, S., S. J. Yoo, David Zilberman, and Andrew L. Dabalen. 2008. Household Use of Agricultural Chemicals for Pest-Soil Management and Own Labor for Yard Work. Environmental and Resource Economics 40 (1, May): 91-108.