Professor Doering has teaching, research and outreach extension responsibilities in the Department. He is a public policy specialist on economic issues affecting agriculture, natural resources, and energy. He has served the U.S. Department of Agriculture working on the 1977 and 1990 Farm Bills. In 1997 he was the Principal Advisor to USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service for implementing the 1996 Farm Bill and served again with NRCS in 2005. From 1985 to 1990 he was director of Indiana’s State Utility Forecasting Group. In 1999 he was the economic assessment team leader for the National Hypoxia Assessment of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. He served in 2007 on the National Academies Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean water Act and the National Research Council’s Committee on the Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States. He also serves on advisory boards to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Professor Doering has been a visiting professor at Berkeley, Cornell, and North Carolina A&T State University. He is a National Science Foundation evaluator for the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Program. Dr. Doering has served on Indiana’s Commission for Higher Education, the Governor’s Education Roundtable, and chaired Indiana’s Articulation and Transfer Committee. He is 2007-2008 President of the American Agricultural Economics Association and has received the AAEA’s Distinguished Policy Contribution Award as well as its Extension Economics Teaching Award. He was part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change group that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work. He has overseas experience with the Ford Foundation, primarily in Southeast Asia. In previous lives he has worked as a horse wrangler in the Canadian Rockies and as a legal investigator in New York City.

Professor Doering teaches The Economic Geography of World Food and Resources and an honors class in non-renewable resources to undergraduates. He also teaches the Department’s research methods class to graduate students. His publications include a book on the 1996 Farm Act and a book on the effects of climate change and variability on agricultural production systems. Recently he has written on the rationale for U.S. agricultural policy, on integrating biomass energy into existing energy systems, and on the political economy of public goods.