Faculty & Staff Directory
School of Forestry
PO Box 15018 Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Building 82
James Allen, PhD
Professor
Email: James.Allen@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-5894
Room: 124
Emphasis areas: Wetland Ecology and Management, Agroforestry, Watershed Restoration
Anita Antoninka, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Email: Anita.Antoninka@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-2669
Room: 211
Emphasis areas: Mycorrhizal Ecology, Biocrusts, Soil Ecology, Community Ecology
David Auty, PhD
Interim Executive Director
Associate Professor
Email: David.Auty@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6680
Room: 238
Emphasis areas: Wood Properties, Statistical Modeling, Tree Growth and Wood Quality, Wood Structure
Laurie Ann Balenquah
Academic Advisor Sr., College of the Environmental, Forestry, & Natural Sciences
Contact if need information about undergraduate program
Email: Laurie.Balenquah@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-1716
Jill J Beckmann
Assistant Professor of Practice
Email: Jill.Beckmann@nau.edu
Phone: 928 523-6727
Room: 100
Emphasis areas: Spatial Analyses, Forest Ecology, Forest Restoration, Forest Management
Paul Beier, PhD
Emeritus Regents’ Professor
Email: Paul.Beier@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-9341
Room: 239
Emphasis areas: Conservation Biology, Wildlife Ecology, Wildlife Corridor Design
Kimberly Walker
Academic Program Coordinator
Email: Kimberly.Walker@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-1814
Room: 122
Matthew Bowker, PhD
Associate Professor; Associate Director of ECOSS
Email: Matthew.Bowker@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6600
Room: 236
Emphasis areas: Soil Ecology
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Carol Chambers, PhD
Professor
Email: Carol.Chambers@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-0014
Room: 209
Emphasis Areas: Wildlife Ecology, Wildlife-Habitat Relationships, Forest Management, Conservation Biology
Wally Covington, PhD
Emeritus Regents’ Professor
Emeritus Founding Executive Director, Ecological Restoration Institute
Email:
Emphasis areas: Restoration Ecology, Conservation Ecology, Fire Effects on Forest Ecosystems, Forest Ecosystem Health
Amanda De La Torre, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: Amanda.De-La-Torre@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-4976
Room: 231
Emphasis areas: Genomics (Landscape, Adaptation, Conservation), Epigenomics, Hybridization
Catrin Edgeley, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: Catrin.Edgeley@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-7347
Room: 237
Emphasis areas: Wildfire Social Science, Environmental Hazards, Human Community Recovery after Fire, Natural Resource Sociology, Social Science Research Methods in Forestry
Bruce Fox, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Email: Bruce.Fox@nau.edu
Emphasis areas: Forest Operations, Forest Management, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Peter Fulé, PhD
Regents’ Professor
Charles O. and Mary Minor Professor of Forestry
Email: Pete.Fule@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-1463
Room: 246C
Emphasis areas: Forest Ecology, Wildfire, Ecological Restoration, Indigenous Forestry, International Forestry
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Han-Sup Han, PhD
Professor
Email: Han-Sup.Han@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-1049
Room: 206
Emphasis areas: Forest Operations, Biomass Utilization
Richard Hofstetter, PhD
Interim Associate Director of School of Forestry
Graduate Coordinator for the School of Forestry
Professor
Xi Sigma Pi (Forestry Honor Society) Faculty Advisor
Email: Rich.Hofstetter@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6452
Room: 244
Emphasis areas: Insect Ecology, Forest Health, Pest Management, Bark Beetle Biology, Symbioses, Insect-Fungal-Mite Interactions
Thomas Kolb, PhD
Professor
Email: Tom.Kolb@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-7491
Room: 202
Emphasis areas: Forest Ecophysiology, Forest Ecology, Forest Health, Tree Regeneration
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Christine Mares, MS
Instructor
Project Coordinator
Email: Christine.Mares@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-4479
Room: 127
Emphasis areas: Fire Ecology, Fire Behavior, Wildland Urban Interface, Conservation, Wildland Fire Education and Outreach
Andrew Sánchez Meador, PhD
ERI Director
Associate Professor in School of Forestry
Email: Andrew.SanchezMeador@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-3448
Room: 234
Emphasis areas: Forest Biometrics, Applied Statistics and Sampling, Spatial and Temporal Analysis, Vegetation Dynamics, Remote Sensing
Margaret Moore, PhD
Professor
Email: Margaret.Moore@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-7457
Room: 235
Emphasis areas: Forest and Range Plant Community Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Land-Use Change, Plant Population Ecology, Legacy Effects
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Barbara Satink-Wolfson
Program Coordinator, Senior
Southwest Fire Science Consortium
Email: Barbara.Wolfson@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-1148
Room: 240
Alark Saxena, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email:Alark.Saxena@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6642
Room: 242
Emphasis areas: Forest Management, Human Dimensions, and Developing resilient communities.
Patrick Shin, MS
Research Specialist
Email: Patrick.Shin@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 556-2155
Room: 236 (Rocky Mountain Research Station)
Emphasis areas: GIS, Remote Sensing, Forest Management, Unmanned Aerial Systems
Andrea Thode, PhD
Professor
Certified Wildland Fire Ecologist
Email: Andi.Thode@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-5457
Room: 200
Emphasis areas: Fire Ecology and Management, Fire Science, Burn Severity, Post-fire Regeneration, Restoration Ecology, Landscape Ecology
Laurie Thom
Program Coordinator
Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit
Email: Laurie.Thom@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-5549
Room: 132
Faith Walker, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Director of Genetics, Bat Ecology & Genetics Lab and Ancient DNA Lab
Email: Faith.Walker@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6665
Room: 208
Emphasis areas: Wildlife Genetics, Ancient DNA, Environmental DNA, Conservation Genetics, Molecular Ecology
Kristen Waring, PhD
Professor
Email: Kristen.Waring@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-4920
Room: 201
Emphasis areas: Silviculture, Applied Forest Health, Stand Dynamics, Regeneration, Invasive Species, Climate Change Adaptation