School of Earth & Sustainability

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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

Research interests: Community-based conservation, sustainable development

Anita Antoninka

Affiliate Faculty

NAU School of Forestry

Research interests: Soil ecology

Tony Chang

Affiliate Faculty

Conservation Science Partners

Research interests: Ecological data science, forest modeling, data visualization

Kenneth Cole

Affiliate Faculty

NAU 12 Pinyons Lab

Michael Collier

Affiliate Faculty

Geologist, Author, Photographer, Humanitarian

Timothy Crews

Affiliate Faculty

The Land Institute, Research Director

Research interests: Agroecology

Ernie Duebendorfer

Emeritus Professor
Research interests: Structural geology

Wendell Duffield

Affiliate Faculty

Geologist

David Elliott

Emeritus Professor
Research interests: Paleontology

Mark Elson

Affiliate Faculty

School of Anthropology, University of Arizona

Research interests: Southwest U.S. archaeology

David Gillette

Affiliate Faculty

Museum of Northern Arizona

Paul Grams

Affiliate Faculty

USGS

Research interests: Geomorphology, Colorado River

Justin Hagerty

Affiliate Faculty

USGS

Research interests: Astrogeology

Laura Huenneke

Emeritus Professor
Research interests: Plant ecology, conservation

Jeffrey Kennedy

Affiliate Faculty

USGS

Research interests: Hydrology of alluvial basins in the southwestern U.S.

Theodore Kennedy

Affiliate Faculty

USGS

Research interests: Aquatic food webs, ecosystem response to river regulation and biological invasions

Matthew Loeser

Affiliate Faculty

Yakima Valley College

Research interests: Rangeland ecology

Sharon Masek Lopez

Affiliate Faculty

H2O Consulting Services

Research interests: Hydrologic response to forest restoration, ecohydrology, soil hydraulics

Angela Moline

Affiliate Faculty

Moline Creative

Research interests: Aquatic ecology and conservation, experiential education, science communication

Tischa Muñoz-Erickson

Affiliate Faculty

US Forest Service, Research Social Scientist

Seth Munson

Affiliate Faculty

USGS

Research interests: Ecology, plant-soil interactions, climate and land-use change

William Parker

Affiliate Faculty

National Park Service, Petrified Forest National Park

Trevor Persons

Affiliate Faculty

Colorado Plateau Research Station

Benjamin Ruddell

Affiliate Faculty

NAU SICCS

Research interests: Water resources, hydrology, network science, urban ecology, smart cities, resilience, FEW, infrastructure

Joel Sankey

Affiliate Faculty

USGS

Research interests: Geomorphology, landscape ecology, remote sensing, LiDAR

Steven Sesnie

Affiliate Faculty

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Research interests: Remote sensing, ecology

Lisa Thomas

Affiliate Faculty

NPS, Retired

Research interests: Community ecology, long-term monitoring, conservation

R. Greg Vaughan

Affiliate Faculty

USGS

Research interests: Geology, volcanology, geothermal systems, remote sensing, science communication

Karin Wadsack

Affiliate Faculty

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Program Manager

Research interests: Renewable energy analysis and modeling; State, tribal, local and federal energy policy

Ho Yi Wan

Affiliate Faculty

University of Montana

Research interests: Landscape genetics

James Wittke

Affiliate Faculty
Research interests: Petrology
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