HAYRI ÖNAL  

Education:

• Ph.D. in Operations Research, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, 1986
• M.S. in Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, METU, Ankara, Turkey, 1975
• B.S. in Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, METU, Ankara, Turkey, 1972.

Research Interests:

Mathematical programming and dynamic simulation methods, applications in agricultural, environmental and resource economics, biological conservation

Professional Experience:

• Professor, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, UIUC, June 2005-present;
• Associate Professor, Dept. of ACE, UIUC, 1998-2005
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of ACE, UIUC, 1992-98
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, UIUC, 1989-92
• Research Associate, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M Univers., 1987-89
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, METU, 1986-87
• Instructor, Dept. of Mathematics, 1978-79
• Dept. of Operations Research and Statistics, 1979-83
• Dept. of Industrial Engineering, 1983-86, METU.

Recognitions, Achievements, and Awards:

Listed on the “Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students”, UIUC, Fall 1994, Fall 1995, Spring 1997, Spring 1999, Fall 2002 (outstanding), Spring 2003 (outstanding), Fall 2003 (outstanding), Spring 2004 (outstanding), Fall 2005.

Supervisor of one of the two theses that received the “Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2001” and co-supervisor of the Ph.D. thesis that received the “Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2000” in the Dept. of ACE, UIUC; supervisor of one of the Ph.D. thesis that received an “Honorable Mention” award from the Universities Council on Water Resources in 1998

Supervisor of the thesis that received the “Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award, 1995” in the Dept. of ACE, UIUC. This thesis also received the “American Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award” in 1995.

Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993-94 and 2003-04.

Grants and Contracts in past 5 years:

• Served as a principal investigator or research collaborator in research projects with a total grant amount of nearly $1 million. Selected research grants are listed below:
• Önal, H., M. Khanna, and D. Borah. Prioritization of Agricultural Land Retirement for Water Quality Improvement in the Illinois River. National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC), $27,966, 2003-2004.
• Bullock, D., P. Ellinger, P. Garcia, R. Hauser, M. Khanna, H. Önal, R. Warner, and J. Westervelt. Illinois Rural and Agricultural Policy Center. Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR), $208,978, 2001-2002.
• Khanna, M., R.L. Farnsworth, and H. Önal. Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program: Environmental and Economic Implications. Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR), $94,000, 1998-2000.

Publications in past 5 years:

Önal, H. and Y. Wang. A Graph Theory Approach for Designing Conservation Reserve Networks with Minimal Spatial Separation. Networks (forthcoming). Önal, H. and P. Yanprechaset. Site Accessibility and Prioritization of Nature Reserves. Ecological Economics (forthcoming). Önal, H. and R. Briers. Optimum Selection of a Connected Conservation Reserve Network. Operations Research (in press).

Önal, H. and R. Briers. Designing a Conservation Reserve Network with Minimal Fragmentation: A Linear Integer Programming Approach. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 10:193-202.

Yang, W., M. Khanna, R.L. Farnsworth, and H. Önal. 2005. Is Geographical Targeting Cost-Effective? The Case of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in Illinois. Review of Agricultural Economics, 27:70-88.

Cabrini, S., B. Stark, H. Önal, S.H. Irwin, D.L. Good, and J. Martinez-Filho. 2004. Efficiency Analysis of Agricultural Market Advisory Services: A Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Programming Approach. Manufacturing and Services Operations Management 6:237-252.

Yang, W., M. Khanna, R.L. Farnsworth, and H. Önal. 2003. Integrating Economic, Environmental and GIS Modeling to Target Cost-Effective Land retirement in Multiple Watersheds. Ecological Economics, 46:249-267.

Önal, H. and R. Briers. 2003. Selection of a Minimum-Boundary Reserve Network Using Integer Programming. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 270:1487-1491.

Önal, H. 2003. First Best, Second Best, and Heuristic Solutions in Conservation Reserve Site Selection. Biological Conservation, 115:55-62.

Khanna, M., W. Yang, R.L. Farnsworth, and H. Önal. 2003. Cost Effective Targeting of Land Retirement to Improve Water Quality With Endogenous Sediment Deposition Coefficients. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85:538-553.

Önal, H. 2003. Preservation of Species and Genetic Diversity. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85:438-448.

Önal, H. and R. Briers. 2002. Incorporating Spatial Criteria in Optimum Reserve Network Selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 269:2437-2441.

Önal, H., L. Unnevehr, and A. Bekric. 2000. Regional Shifts in Pork Production: Implications for Regional Competition and Food Safety. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82:968-978.

Mendoza, G., H. Önal, and W. Soetjipto. 2000. Optimizing Tree Diversity and Economic Returns From Managed Mixed Forests in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 12:298-319.