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
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
Tony Chang
Affiliate Faculty
Conservation Science Partners
Email: tony@csp-inc.org
Research interests: Ecological data science, forest modeling, data visualization
Michael Collier
Affiliate Faculty
Geologist, Author, Photographer, Humanitarian
Email: mcollier721@gmail.com
Timothy Crews
Affiliate Faculty
The Land Institute, Research Director
Email: crews@landinstitute.org
Research interests: Agroecology
Christoph Daetwyler
Affiliate Faculty
University of Bern
Research interests: Lake Sediments and Paleolimnology
Mark Elson
Affiliate Faculty
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Email: markelson@email.arizona.edu
Research interests: Southwest U.S. archaeology
Paul Grams
Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: pgrams@usgs.gov
Research interests: Geomorphology, Colorado River
Laura Huenneke
Emeritus Professor
Email: Laura.Huenneke@nau.edu
Research interests: Plant ecology, conservation
Jeffrey Kennedy
Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: jkennedy@usgs.gov
Research interests: Hydrology of alluvial basins in the southwestern U.S.
Theodore Kennedy
Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: tkennedy@usgs.gov
Research interests: Aquatic food webs, ecosystem response to river regulation and biological invasions
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
Angela Moline
Affiliate Faculty
Moline Creative
Email: angie@molinecreative.com
Research interests: Aquatic ecology and conservation, experiential education, science communication
Tischa Muñoz-Erickson
Affiliate Faculty
US Forest Service, Research Social Scientist
Email: tmunozerickson@gmail.com
Seth Munson
Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: smunson@usgs.gov
Research interests: Ecology, plant-soil interactions, climate and land-use change
William Parker
Affiliate Faculty
National Park Service, Petrified Forest National Park
Email: William_Parker@nps.gov
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
Joel Sankey
Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: jsankey@usgs.gov
Research interests: Geomorphology, landscape ecology, remote sensing, LiDAR
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
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
