School of Earth & Sustainability

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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.

R. Scott Anderson

Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #137
Research interests: Paleoecology, human-landscape interactions, forest history
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Clare Aslan

Assistant professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #120
Research interests: Community ecology, conservation biology
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Rebecca Best

Assistant professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #119/120
Research interests: Aquatic ecology, evolution, and conservation
Lab website | Google scholar

Daniel Buscombe

Assistant research professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #213
Research interests: Earth surface processes, quantitative methods
Lab website | Google scholar

Brett Dickson

Associate professor and co-Director, Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology
Office: Building 56 Rm #130
Research interests: Conservation biology, landscape and wildlife ecology, statistical ecology

Diana Elder

Associate professor
Office: Building 69 Rm #322
Research interests: Quaternary geology

David Elliott

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #305
Research interests: Paleontology

Kerry Grimm

Lecturer
Office: Building 19 Rm #101
Research interests: Human-environment interactions, political ecology, collaboration, conservation and land use

Thomas Hoisch

Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #227
Research interests: Metamorphic petrology, orogenesis, geodynamic modeling

Laura Huenneke

Emeritus Professor
Phone: 928-523-2599
Research interests: Plant ecology and conservation

Deborah Huntzinger

Associate professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #137
Research interests: Carbon cycling, carbon-climate feedbacks, Earth system modeling

Nancy Johnson

Regents’ professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #124
Research interests: Ecosystem ecology, microbial ecology, mycorrhizas
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Taylor Joyal

Lecturer
Office: Building 19 Rm #102
Research interests: Earth surface processes, watershed science, quaternary geology
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Darrell Kaufman

Regents’ professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #219
Research interests: Paleoclimatlogy, Quaternary geology
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Nicholas McKay

Assistant Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #217
Research interests: Paleoclimatology, data analysis, paleoclimate informatics
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Rachel Mitchell

Assistant professor
Office: Building 20 Rm #102
Research interests: Functional ecology, plant ecology
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Julie Mueller

Associate professor
Research interests: Natural resource valuation

Erik Nielsen

Associate professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #115
Research interests: Environmental policy

Erika Nowak

Assistant research professor
Office: Building 20 Rm #150
Research interests: Herpetology and conservation
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Michael Ort

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #209
Research interests: Volcanology and crustal petrology
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Roderic Parnell

Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #207
Research interests: Hydrogeochemistry, river restoration
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Denielle Perry

Assistant professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #116
Research interests: Water resources policy and management, geography, political ecology, Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Lab website | Google scholar

Ryan Porter

Assistant Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #214
Research interests: Geophysics, seismology, tectonics
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Mary Reid

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #207
Research interests: Geochemistry, petrology
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Nancy Riggs

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #205
Research interests: Volcanology, geochronology, tectonics
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Cody Routson

Assistant research professor
Research interests: Climate science
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James Sample

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #210
Research interests: Tectonics, geochemistry, structural geology

Robert “Buck” Sanford, Jr.

Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #122
Research interests: Ecosystem ecology, soil biology, biogeochemistry
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Temuulen “Teki” Sankey

Assistant professor
Office: Building 90 Rm #105
Research interests: Remote sensing, geoinformatics
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Christopher Schwalm

Research assistant professor
Research interests: Climate and ecosystem science

Thomas Sisk

Professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #118
Research interests: Ecology, conservation biology, environmental policy, sustainability
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Lisa Skinner

Senior lecturer
Office: Building 12 Rm #211
Research interests: Geoscience education, volcanology, GIS
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Michael Smith

Assistant professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #212
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
Research interests: Population biology, plant ecology, conservation biology
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Abraham Springer

Professor
Office: Building 12 Rm #206
Research interests: Hydrogeology, ecohydrology, karst
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Diana Stuart

Associate professor
Office: Building 19 Rm #121
Research interests: Environmental sociology, climate change, food systems, conservation, social theory

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Paul Umhoefer

Professor
Office: Building 13 Rm #307
Research interests: Tectonics, sedimentary basins, structural geology
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Laura Wasylenki

Associate professor
Office: Building 36
Research interests: Environmental geochemistry of metals, paleoceanography, metal stable isotopes
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Kelsey Winsor

Lecturer
Research interests: Quaternary geology, paleoclimatology
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School of Earth & Sustainability
Location
Room 100 Building 12
625 S Knoles Dr
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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