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Affiliate and Emeritus Faculty

The School of Earth & Sustainability has a diverse group of affiliate and emeritus faculty who often collaborate with SES faculty and advise graduate students in all of our graduate programs. Find their research interests, web links, and contact information below.

Bernardo Aguilar-Gonzalez

Affiliate Faculty
Fundación Neotrópica, Executive Director
Email: baguilar@neotropica.org
Research interests: Community-based conservation, sustainable development
Website

Anita Antoninka

Affiliate Faculty
NAU School of Forestry
Email: Anita.Antoninka@nau.edu
Research interests: Soil ecology

Daniel Buscombe

Affiliate Faculty
Marda Science
Email: daniel@mardascience.com
Research interests: Earth surface processes, quantitative methods
Website | Google scholar

Tony Chang

Affiliate Faculty
Conservation Science Partners
Email: tony@csp-inc.org
Research interests: Ecological data science, forest modeling, data visualization
Website

Kenneth Cole

Affiliate Faculty
NAU 12 Pinyons Lab
Email: Ken.Cole@nau.edu

Michael Collier

Affiliate Faculty
Geologist, Author, Photographer, Humanitarian
Email: mcollier721@gmail.com
Website

Timothy Crews

Affiliate Faculty
The Land Institute, Research Director
Email: crews@landinstitute.org
Research interests: Agroecology
Website

Christoph Daetwyler

Affiliate Faculty
University of Bern
Email: christoph.daetwyler@giub.unibe.ch
Research interests: Lake Sediments and Paleolimnology

Ernie Duebendorfer

Emeritus Professor
Email: Ernie.D@nau.edu
Research interests: Structural geology

Wendell Duffield

Affiliate Faculty
Geologist
Email: Wendell.Duffield@nau.edu

David Elliott

Emeritus Professor
Email: David.Elliott@nau.edu
Research interests: Paleontology

Mark Elson

Affiliate Faculty
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Email: markelson@email.arizona.edu
Research interests: Southwest U.S. archaeology

David Gillette

Affiliate Faculty
Museum of Northern Arizona
Email: daviddgillette@gmail.com

Paul Grams

Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: pgrams@usgs.gov
Research interests: Geomorphology, Colorado River
Website

Kerry Grimm

Affiliate Faculty
Email: Kerry.Grimm@nau.edu
Research interests: Human-environment interactions, political ecology, collaboration, conservation and land use
Lab website | Google scholar

Justin Hagerty

Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: jhagerty@usgs.gov
Research interests: Astrogeology
Website

Laura Huenneke

Emeritus Professor
Email: Laura.Huenneke@nau.edu
Research interests: Plant ecology, conservation
Website

Jani Ingram

Affiliate Faculty
NAU Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Email: jani.ingram@nau.edu
Research interests: Analytical and environmental chemistry
Website

Jeffrey Kennedy

Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: jkennedy@usgs.gov
Research interests: Hydrology of alluvial basins in the southwestern U.S.
Website

Theodore Kennedy

Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: tkennedy@usgs.gov
Research interests: Aquatic food webs, ecosystem response to river regulation and biological invasions
Website

Matthew Loeser

Affiliate Faculty
Yakima Valley College
Email: mloeser@yvcc.edu
Research interests: Rangeland ecology

Sharon Masek Lopez

Affiliate Faculty
H2O Consulting Services
Email: sharon.maseklopez@gmail.com
Research interests: Hydrologic response to forest restoration, ecohydrology, soil hydraulics
Website

Angela Moline

Affiliate Faculty
Moline Creative
Email: angie@molinecreative.com
Research interests: Aquatic ecology and conservation, experiential education, science communication
Website

Tischa Muñoz-Erickson

Affiliate Faculty
US Forest Service, Research Social Scientist
Email: tmunozerickson@gmail.com
Website

Seth Munson

Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: smunson@usgs.gov
Research interests: Ecology, plant-soil interactions, climate and land-use change
Website

William Parker

Affiliate Faculty
National Park Service, Petrified Forest National Park
Email: William_Parker@nps.gov

Trevor Persons

Affiliate Faculty
Colorado Plateau Research Station
Email: Trevor.Persons@nau.edu

Benjamin Ruddell

Affiliate Faculty
NAU SICCS
Email: Benjamin.Ruddell@nau.edu
Research interests: Water resources, hydrology, network science, urban ecology, smart cities, resilience, FEW, infrastructure
Website

Robert “Buck” Sanford, Jr.

Professor
Email: Robert.Sanford@nau.edu
Research interests: Ecosystem ecology, soil biology, biogeochemistry

Google scholar


Joel Sankey

Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: jsankey@usgs.gov
Research interests: Geomorphology, landscape ecology, remote sensing, LiDAR
Website

Steven Sesnie

Affiliate Faculty
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Email: steven_sesnie@fws.gov
Research interests: Remote sensing, ecology

Lisa Thomas

Affiliate Faculty
NPS, Retired
Email: lisa_thomas@nps.gov
Research interests: Community ecology, long-term monitoring, conservation

R. Greg Vaughan

Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: gvaughan@usgs.gov
Research interests: Geology, volcanology, geothermal systems, remote sensing, science communication
Website

Karin Wadsack

Affiliate Faculty
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Program Manager
Email: karin.wadsack@nrel.gov
Research interests: Renewable energy analysis and modeling; State, tribal, local and federal energy policy

Ho Yi Wan

Affiliate Faculty
University of Montana
Email: hoyiwan@gmail.com
Research interests: Landscape genetics

James Wittke

Affiliate Faculty
Email: James.Wittke@nau.edu
Research interests: Petrology
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