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A very close friend and colleague: In memory of Dr. Paul Umhoefer

Faculty profiles

Meet the faculty members of Northern Arizona University’s School of Earth & Sustainability. Find their research interests, web links, and contact information below.

Clare Aslan, SES Acting Director

Associate Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #120
Phone: 928-523-2487
Email: Clare.Aslan@nau.edu
Research interests: Community ecology, conservation biology
Lab website | Google Scholar


James Sample, SES Associate Director

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #210
Phone: 928-523-0881
Email: James.Sample@nau.edu
Research interests: Tectonics, geochemistry, structural geology
Google scholar


R. Scott Anderson

Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #137
Phone: 928-523-5821
Email: Scott.Anderson@nau.edu
Research interests: Paleoecology, human-landscape interactions, forest history
Lab website


Rebecca Best

Assistant Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #122
Phone: 928-523-8155
Email: Rebecca.Best@nau.edu
Research interests: Aquatic ecology, evolution, and conservation
Lab website | Google scholar


Duan Biggs

Professor
Office: Building 20
Phone:
Email: Duan.Biggs@nau.edu
Research interests: Conservation science, resilience, nature-based tourism, community and stakeholder dialogue and engagement
Lab website | Google scholar


Brett Dickson

Associate Professor 
Office: Building 19 Rm #120
Phone: 928-523-3592
Email: Brett.Dickson@nau.edu
Research interests: Conservation biology, landscape and wildlife ecology, statistical ecology
Google scholar


Diana Elder

Associate Professor 
Currently @ NSF
Email: Diana.Elder@nau.edu
Research interests: Quaternary geology


Michael Erb

Assistant Research Professor
Office: Building 8 Rm #310
Email: Michael.Erb​@nau.edu
Research interests: Paleoclimatology, climate modeling, data assimilation
Lab website | Google scholar


John Fegyveresi

Assistant Professor of Practice
Office: Building 8 Rm #309
Email: John.Fegyveresi@nau.edu
Research interests: Quaternary climate science, glaciology, ice cores
Lab website | Google scholar


James Gaherty

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #206
Phone: 928-523-1052
Email: James.Gaherty@nau.edu
Research interests: Seismology, geophysics, tectonics
Google scholar | Lab website


Deborah Huntzinger

Associate Professor
Office: Building 8 Rm #307
Phone: 928-523-1669
Email: Deborah.Huntzinger@nau.edu
Research interests: Carbon cycling, carbon-climate feedbacks, Earth system modeling
Lab website | Google scholar


Nancy Johnson

Regents’ Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #124
Phone: 928-523-6473
Email: Nancy.Johnson@nau.edu
Research interests: Ecosystem ecology, microbial ecology, mycorrhizas
Lab website | Google scholar


Taylor Joyal

Senior Lecturer
Office: Building 19 Rm #102
Phone: 928-523-1588
Email: Taylor.Joyal@nau.edu
Research interests: Earth surface processes, watershed science, quaternary geology
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Darrell Kaufman

Regents’ Professor
Office: Building 8 Rm #306
Phone: 928-523-7192
Email: Darrell.Kaufman@nau.edu
Research interests: Paleoclimatology, Quaternary geology
Lab website | Google scholar


Nicholas McKay

Associate Professor
Office: Building 8 Rm #308
Phone: 928-523-1918
Email: Nicholas.Mckay@nau.edu
Research interests: Paleoclimatology, data analysis, paleoclimate informatics
Lab website | Google scholar


Rachel Mitchell

Assistant Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #137
Email: Rachel.Mitchell@nau.edu
Research interests: Functional ecology, plant ecology
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Julie Mueller

Professor
Phone: 928-523-6612
Email: Julie.Mueller@nau.edu
Research interests: Natural resource valuation
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Erik Nielsen

Associate Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #115
Phone: 928-523-4980
Email: Erik.Nielsen@nau.edu
Research interests: Environmental policy
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Erika Nowak

Assistant Research Professor
Office: Building 20 Rm #150
Phone: 928-523-7760
Email: Erika.Nowak@nau.edu
Research interests: Herpetology and conservation
Lab website


Denielle Perry

Assistant Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #101
Phone: 928-523-0361
Email: Denielle.Perry@nau.edu
Research interests: Water resources policy and management, geography, political ecology, Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Lab website | Google scholar


Ryan Porter

Associate Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #214
Phone: 928-523-2429
Email: Ryan.Porter@nau.edu
Research interests: Geophysics, seismology, tectonics
Lab website | Google scholar


Christine Regalla

Assistant Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #211
Email: Christine.Regalla@nau.edu
Research interests: Structural geology, active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology
Lab website | Google scholar


Mary Reid

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #207
Phone: 928-523-7200
Email: Mary.Reid@nau.edu
Research interests: Geochemistry, petrology
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Cody Routson

Assistant Research Professor
Office: Building 8 Rm #301
Email: Cody.Routson@nau.edu
Research interests: Climate science
Lab website | Google scholar


Helen Rowe

Assistant Research Professor
Office: Building 19
Email: Helen.Rowe@nau.edu
Research interests: Conservation, restoration ecology, invasive species
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Temuulen “Teki” Sankey

Associate Professor
Office: Building 90 Rm #105
Phone: 928-523-7098
Email: Temuulen.Sankey@nau.edu
Research interests: Remote sensing, geoinformatics
Lab website


Donna Shillington

Associate Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #213
Phone: 928-523-5328
Email: Donna.Shillington@nau.edu
Research interests: Geophysics, seismology, tectonics
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Michael Smith

Associate Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #200
Phone: 928-523-8965
Email: Michael.E.Smith@nau.edu
Research interests: Geochronology of sedimentary basins, deep time stratigraphy, marine geomorphology
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Sara Souther

Assistant Research Professor
Office: Building 56 Rm #130
Phone: 928-523-2644
Email: Sara.Souther@nau.edu
Research interests: Population biology, plant ecology, conservation biology
Lab website | Google scholar


Abraham Springer

Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #206
Phone: 928-523-7198
Email: Abe.Springer@nau.edu
Research interests: Hydrogeology, ecohydrology, karst
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Diana Stuart

Associate Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #121
Phone: 928-523-0736
Email: Diana.Stuart@nau.edu
Research interests: Environmental sociology, climate change, food systems, conservation, social theory

Lab website | Google scholar


Laura Wasylenki

Associate Professor
Office: Building 36
Email: Laura.Wasylenki@nau.edu
Research interests: Environmental geochemistry of metals, paleoceanography, metal stable isotopes
Lab website | Google scholar

School of Earth & Sustainability
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Ashurst
624 S Knoles Dr
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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