Dr. Cheyney O'Fallon joined the Applied Economics Office in 2016 as an Economist after graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His graduate research concerned environmental, natural resource and energy economics with a focus on the interaction of natural disasters and energy market structure and performance. Cheyney's current research efforts at NIST are directed towards a variety of projects including topics in sustainable building design, community resilience to disasters, and the smart grid.