Faculty & Staff Directory
School of Forestry
PO Box 15018 Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Building 82
James Allen, PhD
Executive Director
Professor
Email: James.Allen@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-5894
Room: 124
Emphasis areas: Wetland Ecology and Management, Agroforestry, Watershed Restoration
Anita Antoninka, PhD
Research Associate
Email: Anita.Antoninka@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-2669
Room: 211
Emphasis areas: Mycorrhizal Ecology, Biocrusts, Soil Ecology, Community Ecology
David Auty, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: David.Auty@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6680
Room: 243
Emphasis areas: Wood Properties, Statistical Modeling, Tree Growth and Wood Quality, Wood Structure
Paul Beier, PhD
Regents’ Professor
Email: Paul.Beier@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-9341
Room: 239
Emphasis areas: Conservation Biology, Wildlife Ecology, Wildlife Corridor Design
Kristine Bellmore
Business Manager, Senior
Email: Kristine.Bellmore@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-8777
Room: 125B
Matthew Bowker, PhD
Associate Professor
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:
Phone: (928) 523-6506
Room: 121
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
Professor
Faculty Ombudsman
Email: Bruce.Fox@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6636
Room: 232
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
Kevin Grady, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Email: Kevin.Grady@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-1879
Room: 203
Emphasis areas: Eco-Cultural Restoration, Environmental Humanities, Bio-based Entrepreneurship, Tropical Forestry, Biodiversity, Community Evolution
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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
Professor
Xi Sigma Pi (Forestry Honor Society) Faculty Advisor
Professional Program Semester A Coordinator
Graduate Student Coordinator
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
Marisol Holder
Academic Advisor, Senior
Email: Marisol.Holder@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-8956
Room: 126
Ching Hsun-Huang, PhD
Professor
Email: Ching.Huang@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-7502
Room: 238
Emphasis areas: Bioenergy Economics, Wildfire Management Economics, Carbon Sequestration, Ecosystem Services, Rural Economic Development
Yeon-Su Kim, PhD
Professor
Email: Yeon-Su.Kim@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6643
Room: 205
Emphasis areas: Ecological Economics, Regional Economic Impact Analysis, Ecosystem Services Payments
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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Nadine Laporte, PhD
Research Professor
Email: Nadine.Laporte@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6568
Room: 204
Emphasis areas: Tropical Forest, Savanna, and Wildlife Conservation; Deforestation Monitoring; Carbon Mapping
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
Associate Professor
Email: Andrew.SanchezMeador@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-3448
Room: 234
Emphasis areas: Forest Biometrics, Applied Statistics and Sampling, Spatial and Temporal Analysis, Vegetation Dynamcs, Remote Sensing
Course list:
FOR 220 Plant Identification
FOR 203 Project Learning Tree
FOR 204 Project WILD
Cheryl Miller, BSF
Instructor
Forest Manager
Email: Cheryl.Miller@nau.edu
Phone: (928) 523-6727
Room: 100
Emphasis areas: Forest Management, Forest Operations, Research Facilitation, Public Outreach, Environmental Education, Geographic Information Systems
Course list:
FOR 215 Writing in Forestry
Cory Miller, MF
Instructor
Writing Tutor
Email: Cory.Miller@nau.edu
Room: 131
Emphasis areas: Technical / Scientific Writing, Forest Hydrology, Watershed Restoration, Restoration Ecology
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
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