School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

Scott Anderson, PhD

Chair, Environmental Sciences programs

Professor, Paleoecology, Forest history

Michael Cline, PhD

Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental geography, Geomorphology

Brett G. Dickson, PhD

Assistant Research Professor, Wildlife and landscape ecology

Ron Hiebert, PhD

Director, Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CPCESU)

Nancy Collins Johnson, PhD

Professor of Ecology and Director of Undergraduate Research Mentoring

Diana Elder, PhD

Associate Professor. Geomorphology, Atmospheric science 

Darrell Kaufman, PhD

Regent's Professor, Quaternary geology and climate science

Angela Moline, PhD

Aquatic ecosystem conservation and management

Erik Nielsen, PhD

Director, Master of Science Environmental Sciences and Policy Program

Assistant Professor, Environmental studies, policy and management

Rod Parnell, PhD

Chair, Environmental Caucus

Director, Environmental Studies

Professor, Hydrogeochemistry, Biogeochemistry

Robert L. Sanford, Jr. (Buck), PhD

Director, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability (on leave of absence beginning 9/2012) 

Thomas Sisk, PhD

Olajos-Goslow Endowed Chair of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Director, NAU Landscape Conservation Initiative

Professor, Ecology, Conservation biology

Abe Springer, PhD

Past Director, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

Professor, Hydrogeology

Paul Umhoefer, PhD

Professor, Tectonics

Interim Director, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

Jacqueline Vaughn, PhD

Professor, Environmental policy and law

Christina Vojta, PhD

Senior Faculty Associate

Ethan Aumack, MS

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

Bala Chaudhary, PhD

Ecology of mycorrhizal fungi in natural and managed ecosystems, Biology

Kenneth Cole, PhD

Research Professor, Biology, Northern Arizona University

Timothy Crews, PhD

Professor of Agroecology, Prescott College

Mark Elson, PhD

Prehistoric Archaeology, settlement pattern analysis, ethnographic studies

Kevin Hultine, PhD

Visiting Assistant Professor, Ecology

Michael Kelly

Informal Science Education

Chris Lauver, PhD

Quantitative Ecology, Southern Colorado Plateau Network Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service

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

Aaryn Olsson, PhD

Remote sensing and GIS specialist, NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology

Dave Ostergren, PhD

Director, Environmental Education Graduate Program Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center, Goshen College

Steve Sesnie, PhD

Spatial Ecologist, United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Mark Sogge

Ecologist and Station Leader, United States Geological Survey Southwest Biological Science Center

Lisa Thomas, MS

Program Manager, Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service

Yaguang Xu, PhD

Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist, Geospatial Database Manager at Research and Innovation Technology Administration

Ophelia Wang, PhD

Remote sensing and GIS specialist, NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology

Thomas Acker, PhD

Director, NAU Sustainable Energy Solutions Group

NAU Engineering

William Auberle, PhD

Physical and Environmental Engineering, NAU Engineering

Rom Coles, PhD

McAllister Chair in Community, Culture, and Environment

NAU Sustainable Communities

Peter Friederici, MS

Environmental education with focus in environmental writing, Science and environmental stories, Journalism, NAU School of Communications

Julie M. Mueller, PhD

Environmental economics and econometrics, NAU Franke College of Business

Marin Robinson, PhD

Chair, NAU Chemistry

Physical and atmospheric chemistry, NAU Chemistry

Shelley Silbert

Chair, NAU Environmental Caucus

Director, Strategic Environmental Initiatives

Zachary Smith, PhD

Regent's Professor, Environmental policy, NAU Politics and International Affairs

Tad Theimer, PhD

Vertebrate ecology, NAU Biology

Mark Aasmundstad

Administrative Associate, Environmental Sciences Programs

Sarah Colby

Program Coordinator Senior, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

Cerissa Hoglander

Research Specialist, Sr., NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology

Valerie Horncastle

Research Specialist, Sr., NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology

Cari Kimball

Conservation Projects Coordinator, NAU Landscape Conservation Initiative

Christopher Ray 

Research Specialist, Sr., NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology

Jill Rundall

Lab Manager and Research Specialist, Sr., NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology