Tyndall Lab
We study People, Land Use and Society (PLUS). The PLUS lab is directed by Dr. John Tyndall, a natural resource economist and social scientist with broad interests in environmental and natural resource economics, policy and sociology within forestry, agriculture, and urban contexts.
News
Congrats to DR. Richard Magala! He successfully defended his dissertation this spring. His dissertation is titled "Quantifying ecosystem service trade-offs to advance sustainable intensification of US Corn Belt agriculture".
The PLUS Lab welcomes three new students in 2024! Kelsey Karnish, Derrick Kapayou, and Paul Keyser.
Publications
*Student authors
2026
Toth, A. L., Dolezal, A. G., St. Clair, A. L., Hsieh, E. M., Hall, M. J., Borchardt, K. E., Stephenson, M., Tyndall, J.C., O’Neal, M., & Schulte, L. A. (2026). Can Native Vegetation in Agroecosystems Provide a Net Benefit for Pollinators, Despite Pesticide Use?. BioScience, biaf194.
Karnish, K.*, E. Zimmerman, J.C. Tyndall, W. Beck., and S. Greer*. (2026) A spatially explicit approach for identifying, prioritizing, and estimating costs associated with potential floodplain easements. Journal of Environmental Quality
Magala, R.*, Tyndall, J.C., & Schulte, L.A. (2026) Effectiveness of PEWI for student learning about agriculture and ecosystem service trade-offs. Natural Sciences Education. E70053.
Online Conservation Planning Tools
ACPF FiNRT ("fine art")
Economic evaluation of barriers to sportfish escapement
The application is set to default values which represent the costs to construct a barrier on Brushy Creek Lake in Iowa in 2020. On the sidebar, you can select and drag values to evaluate how changes in spillway size, or various construction costs metrics will change the cost distribution over time.