School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

• Scott Anderson, PhD, Environmental Sciences Program Chair and Professor, Paleoecology, Forest history
• Carrie Brugger-Schorr, PhD, Lecturer, Geoscience Education, Volcanology
• David Brumbaugh, PhD, Professor, Geophysics 
• Brett G. Dickson, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Wildlife and Landscape Ecology
• Ernest Duebendorfer, PhD, Professor, Structural Geology 
• Diana Elder, PhD, Associate Professor. Geomorphology, Atmospheric science, Graduate Coordinator of MS Environmental Sciences & Policy program
• David Elliott, PhD, Professor, Vertebrate Paleontology 
• Ron Hiebert, PhD, Director, Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CPCESU), Northern Arizona University
• Thomas Hoisch, Professor, Metamorphic Petrology 
• Deborah Huntzinger, PhD, Assistant Professor, Climate Science, Graduate Coordinator of MS Climate Science and Solutions
• Nancy Collins Johnson, PhD, Professor of Ecology and Director of Undergraduate Research Mentoring
• Darrell Kaufman, PhD, Regent's Professor, Quaternary Geology and Climate Science
• Peter Koehler, MS, Instructor, Paleoecology
• Larry Middleton, PhD, Associate Professor, Sedimentology
• Angela Moline, PhD, Aquatic ecosystem conservation and management
• Erik Nielsen, PhD, Professor, Environmental Studies, Policy and Management
• Michael Ort, PhD, Recent Volcanology, Isotope Geochemistry
• Rod Parnell, PhD,  Hydrogeochemistry, Biogeochemistry
• Mary Reid, PhD, Professor, Geology Program Chair, Igneous Petrology, Isotope Geochemistry 
• Nancy Riggs, PhD, Professor, Volcanology 
• Jim Sample, PhD, Professor, Graduate Coordinator, Low-temperature Geochemistry 
• Robert L. Sanford, Jr. (Buck) PhD, Director, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability (on leave of absence beginning 9/2012) 
• Thomas Sisk, PhD, Ecology, Conservation Biology, Olajos-Goslow Endowed Chair of Environmental Science and Policy for the Southwest
• Lisa Skinner, MS, Lecturer, Geoscience Education, GIS
• Abe Springer, PhD, Hydrogeology
• Paul Umhoefer, PhD, Interim Director, Professor, Tectonics 
• Jacqueline Vaughn, PhD, Environmental Policy and Law
• James Wittke, PhD, Geologic Materials Analyst, Igneous Petrology

Our large adjunct faculty is drawn from the local professional community, including employees of the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the US Geological Survey, and other agencies.

• Ethan Aumack, MS Environmental Sciences & Policy, NAU.  Landscape Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Grand Canyon Trust.
• Bernardo Aguilar, PhD, Cultural and Regional Studies, Prescott College
• Randy Bangert, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Trinidad State Junior College 
• Judy Bischoff, PhD, Research Coordinator, Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit, National Park Service
• Theodore Bunch, Planetary Geology, Cosmochemistry 
• Gerardo Carrasco-Nuñez, Volcanology 
• Bala Chaudhary, PhD, Ecology of mycorrhizal fungi in natural and managed ecosystems, Biology, Northern Arizona University
• Kenneth Cole, PhD, Research Professor, Biology, Northern Arizona University
• Timothy Crews, PhD, Professor of Agroecology, Prescott College
• Wendell Duffield,Volcanic Geology, Geothermal Energy, Volcanic Hazards 
• Mark Elson, PhD, Prehistoric Archaeology, settlement pattern analysis, ethnographic studies
• David Gillette, Vertebrate Paleontology 
• Gordon Haxel, Tectonics of the Cordillera, Igneous Petrology
• Ron Hiebert, PhD, part-time faculty, Restoration Ecology and Invasive Species, Northern Arizona University
• Michael Kelly, Informal Science Education 
• Ivo Lucchitta, Geomorphology, Evolution of Colorado Plateau, Tectonics 
• Vera Markgraf, PhD, South American and Southern Hemisphere paleoclimates and inter-hemispheric paleoclimate correlations. Late Quaternary palynology
• David Mattson, PhD, Research Wildlife Biologist, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Mark Miller, PhD, Ecologist, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center
• Dave Ostergren, PhD, Director, Environmental Education Graduate Program Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center, Goshen College
• Jessica Piekielek, PhD, University of Oregon 
• Jeffrey Plescia, Planetary Geology and Geophysics 
• John Sass, Exploration Seismology and Gravimetry, Computer Programming, Continental Scientific Drilling 
• Lisa Thomas, MS, Program Manager, Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory & Monitoring Program, National Park Service
• Yaguang Xu, PhD, Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist, Geospatial Database Manager at Research and Innovation Technology Administration, USDOT
• Ken Cole, Paleobotony  
• Mark Elson, Archaeology 
• Vera Markgraf, Palynology
• Francis Smiley, Archaeology 
• Christina Vojta, PhD, Senior Faculty Associate, Landscape Conservation Initiative
• Ophelia Wang, PhD, Remote sensing and GIS specialist, NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology 
• Wesley Ward, Eolian Processes, Volcanic Geology  
• Michael Woodburne, Mammal Paleontology, Evolution, and Chronostratigraphy

Affiliated Faculty 

• Thomas Acker, PhD, Director, NAU's Sustainable Energy Solutions Group, NAU Engineering
• William Auberle, PhD, Physical and Environmental Engineering
• Rom Coles, PhD, McAllister Chair in Community, Culture & Environment, NAU
• Peter Friederici, MS Environmental Education with focus in Environmental Writing, Science and Environmental Stories and Journalism, NAU School of Communications
• Julie M. Mueller, PhD, Environmental Economics and Econometrics, NAU Franke College of Business
• Marin Robinson, PhD, Physical and atmospheric chemistry, NAU Chemistry Chair
• Shelley Silbert, Chair NAU Environmental Caucus, Director Strategic Environmental Initiatives
• Zachary Smith, PhD, Environmental policy, NAU Politics and International Affairs
• Tad Theimer, PhD, Vertebrate Ecology, NAU Biology

Emeritus faculty

• Larry D. Agenbroad, Professor Emeritus, Quaternary Paleontology
• Charles W. Barnes, Professor Emeritus, Structural Geology
• David M. Best, Professor Emeritus, Geophysics
• Stanley S. Beus, Professor Emeritus, Paleontology
• Ronald Blakey, Professor Emeritus, Stratigraphy and sedimentation
• Augustus S. Cotera, Professor Emeritus
• Richard F. Holm, Associate Professor Emeritus, Volcanology/Petrology
• James Mead, Professor Emeritus, Quaternary Paleontology
• Paul Morgan, Professor Emeritus, Geophysics
• J. Dale Nations, Regents Professor Emeritus, Paleontology

• Katherine Cooper, Amino Acid Geochronology Lab 
• Darrell Kaufman or Katherine Cooper, Sedimentary Records of Environmental Change Lab 
• Susan Smith, Laboratory of Paleoecology 
• Joe Hazel, Research Associate, Sand Bar Studies Lab 
• Matt Kaplisnki, Research Associate, Sand Bar Studies Lab 

• Paul Umhoefer, Interim Director
• Sarah Colby, Program Coordinator Senior
• Connie Beckett, Administrative Associate, Geology Program
• Mike Dai, Lab Supplies Controller
• Tracy Tiedemann, Administrative Specialist Sr., Geology Program