Faculty Profile for Dr. Xiangping Liu

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Dr. Xiangping Liu
Assistant Professor — Department of Agricultural Sciences
AG AG PAVILLION 105
phone: (512) 245-4852
Scholarly/Creative Work
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Teaching Interests

 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Policy, Applied Econometrics, Microeconomics (all levels), Agricultural Policy, and Development Economics.

Research Interests

 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Policy, Applied Econometrics, Agricultural Policy, and Development Economics.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Parsley, E., Liu, X., & Tina Cade. (n.d.). Developing a Questionnaire for Measuring the Importance of Campus Sustainability Initiatives. Journal of Sustainability Education.
  • Drewery, M. L., Liu, X., & Wickersham, T. (2022). Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) as a feed for beef cattle: A hedonic pricing model. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2021.0166
  • Liu, X., Cho, S.-H., Chen, G., Hayes, D., English, B., & Armswoth, P. (n.d.). Does a trade-off exist between economic and environmental impacts of forest carbon payment programs? Sustainability Science.
  • Liu, X., Seong-Hoon Cho, Daniel Hayes, & Armsworth, P. (2021). Where and When Carbon Storage can be Bought from Private Landowners?”. Environmental Management, 67, pages930-948.
  • Liu, X., Cho, S.-H., Hayes, D. J., & Armsworth, P. R. (2019). Potential Efficiency Gains in Payment Programs from Resolving Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in the Cost of Supply Forest Carbon. Environmental Management, 250, 109421. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109421

Selected Grants

  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal), Summers, Lucia (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Supporting), Liu, Xiangping (Supporting), Chang, Carolyn T (Supporting), Mendez, Francis A (Supporting), Irvin, Jennifer A (Supporting), Resendiz, Maria D (Supporting). Expanding AI Curriculum and Infrastructure at Texas State University to Advance Interdisciplinary Research and Grow a Diverse AI Workforce, National Science Foundation, Federal, $400000. (Submitted: June 2023, Funded: January 2024 - December 2025). Grant.
  • Liu, Xiangping (Co-Principal), (Waliczek) Cade, Tina Marie (Co-Principal). Estimating Economic Cost Savings and Carbon Footprint Benefits from Avoided Food Waste for Urban Households, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: 2022 - 2023). Grant.
  • Liu, Xiangping. Subtropical Soil Health Demonstration: On-Farm Trials with Cover Crops for Conservation Innovation in south Texas, USDA-NRCS-NHQ-CIGOFT-20-GEN0010750, Federal, $1899545. (Funded: August 15, 2021 - December 31, 2024). Grant.
  • Mix, Kenneth D (Principal), Liu, Xiangping (Co-Principal). Economic Modeling of Soil Carbon Sequestration Resulting From Agricultural Soil Health Practices, Texas State University Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $5538. (Submitted: October 13, 2020, Funded: December 15, 2020 - December 31, 2021). Grant.
  • Dey, Madan (Principal), Liu, Xiangping (Co-Principal), Pratheesh, Omana Sudhakaran (Co-Principal), Surathkal, Prasanna (Co-Principal), Gross, Louis (Co-Principal), Lenhart, Suzanne (Co-Principal). Integrated Training and Experiential Learning (InTEL) for Data Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Computer Skills in Agricultural Sciences, USDA-NIFA-NLGCA-006780, Federal, $300000. (Submitted: September 25, 2019, Funded: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2022). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Committee member for research and outreach at Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science (TXST CAD)
2023-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Aquaculture
2022-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Environmental and Resource Economics
2022-Present
Participant
Bobcat Day Faculty representative
November 12, 2022-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Ambio
May 2022-Present