ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS FACULTY
Research Interests
TITLE
Professor,
Environmental
Sciences Program
Coordinator
NAME
CONTACT
R. Scott
Anderson
Scott.Anderson@nau.edu
523-5821
Bldg. 19, Room 138
(Paleoecology,
Forest History)
Associate Professor
(Geomorphology,
Atmospheric Science)
Diana Elder
Anderson
Diana.Anderson@nau.edu
523-1276
Bldg. 19, Room 137
Lecturer, Geoscience
Education,
Volcanology
Carrie
BruggerSchorr
Carrie.BruggerSchorr@nau.edu
Assistant Research
Professor (Wildlife &
Landscape Ecology)
Brett G.
Dickson
Brett.Dickson@nau.edu
INTEREST AREAS - WEBSITE
Disturbance ecology, primarily the effect
of fire and insect infestation on former
plant communities; Paleoecology and
climate history of plant communities;
Global change issues, especially as they
relate to human activities in forested
ecosystems.
http://www.nau.edu/~envsci/faculty/Scott
Anderson/index.htm
Arid Land Geomorphology; Meteorology;
Paleoclimatology; Desertification;
Watershed Restoration
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/EnvS
ci/danderson.shtml
523.9220
523-3592
Bldg. 56, Room 222
Professor, Structural
Ecology
Ernest
Duebendorfer
Ernie.D@nau.edu
Professor,
Vertebrate
Paleontology
David Elliott
David.Elliott@nau.edu
Director, Colorado
Plateau Cooperative
Ecosystem Studies
Unit, Adjunct
Professor
Ron Hiebert
Professor,
Metamorphic
Petrology
Thomas Hoisch Thomas.Hoisch@nau.edu
Assistant Professor,
Climate Science
Deborah
Huntzinger
Deborah.Huntzinger@nau.edu
Professor
(Mycorrhizae and
Soil Ecology)
Nancy Collins
Johnson
Nancy.Johnson@nau.edu
Wildlife and Landscape Ecology,
Conservation Biology, Quantitative
Methods and Spatial Statistics
http://oak.ucc.nau.edu/bgd/research.html
523-7510
3-7188
Ron.Hiebert@nau.edu
523-0877
Bldg. 56, Room 114
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Orgs/CPCESU/
Bldg. 69 Room 322L
523.9220
523-6473
Bldg. 19, Room 124
Soil Ecology; Mycorrhizal symbioses;
Ecosystem restoration; Agroecology
http://www.nau.edu/~envsci/johnsonlab/
As of January 2013
Professor
(Quaternary Geology
and Climate Science)
Darrell
Kaufman
Instructor,
Paleoecology
Peter Koehler
Lecturer (Aquatic
Ecosystem
Conservation &
Management)
Angela Moline
Darrell.Kaufman@nau.edu
523.7192
Bldg. 13, Room 306
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology;
Geochronology and Paleoclimatology;
Glacier, Sea-level, and Lake-level
Fluctuations; Amino Acid Geochronology.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~dsk5/
Peter.Koehler@nau.edu
523.4561
Angela.Moline@nau.edu
523-0361
Bldg. 19, Room 116
Ecology of desert streams and springfed pools; Aquatic ecosystem
conservation and management; Placebased experiential education on the
Colorado Plateau; Assessment of student
attitudes towards the environment and
conservation
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/EnvS
ci/Moline.shtml
Associate Professor,
Sedimentology
Larry
Middleton
Larry.Middleton@nau.edu
Director, MS
Environmental
Sciences & Policy
Program (Envir.
Studies, Policy and
Management),
Assistant Professor
Erik Nielsen
Erik.Nielsen@nau.edu
Professor
Michael Ort
523.2429
523.4980
Bldg. 19, Room 115
Environmental policy analysis,
Community-based conservation projects,
Planning and collaboration on sustainable
resource management, the Southwest and
Latin American regions, Cross-scale
environmental policy and management
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academi
c/EnvSci/nielsen.shtml
(Recent Volcanology,
Isotope
Geochemistry)
Michael.Ort@nau.edu
523.9363
Bldg. 13 – Room A209
Professor
Hydrogeochemistry,
Biogeochemistry
Rod Parnell
Professor, Geology
Program Chair,
Igneous Petrology
Mary Reid
Professor,
Volcanology
Nancy Riggs
Professor, Lowtemperature
Geochemistry
Jim Sample
Director of SESES,
on leave
Robert Sanford
Rod.Parnell@nau.edu
523.3329
Bldg. 12, Room 207
Geochemistry and volcanology
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mho/
Geochemistry; Fluvial geomorphology of
Southwestern rivers; Biogeochemical
responses to ecosystem stresses
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/EnvS
ci/ParnellResearchandBio.shtml
Mary.Reid@nau.edu
523.7200
Nancy.Riggs@nau.edu
523.9362
Jim.Sample@nau.edu
523.0881
Robert.Sanford@nau.edu
523.1637
As of January 2013
Professor (Ecology,
Conservation
Biology)
Thomas Sisk
Lecturer, Geoscience
Education
Lisa Skinner
Director, School of
Earth Sciences and
Environmental
Sustainability
(Hydrogeology)
Abe Springer
Professor and
Environmental
Studies Program
Coordinator
(Environmental
Policy/Ecological
Restoration)
Jacqueline
Vaughn
Geologic Materials
Analyst, Igneous
Petrology
James Wittke
Thomas.Sisk@nau.edu
523-7183
Bldg. 19, Room 118
Ecology, conservation biology, landscape
design; land use and environmental
policy; collaborative management and
democratic process in land and resource
management; biocultural conservation on
the Colorado Plateau and across western
North America
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/EnvS
ci/tsisk.shtml
Lisa.Skinner@nau.edu
523.9264
Abe.Springer@nau.edu
523.7198
Geology (Bldg 12) #206
Aquifer parameter measurements and
variability; Agricultural water quality;
Riparian hydrogeology; Perched volcanic
aquifers; Groundwater and the Grand
Canyon
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~aes9/
Jacqueline.Vaughn@nau.edu
523-8224
http://oak.ucc.nau.edu/js53/
Bldg. 65, Room 214
James.Wittke@nau.edu
523.9044
Affiliated and Allied
Faculty
Professor, Director
NAU’s Sustainable
Energy Solutions
Thomas Acker
Tom.Acker@nau.edu
Mechanical Engineering
523-8363
http://cefns.nau.edu/Academic/ME/facult
y/ThomasAcker.shtml
Professor (Physical
and Environmental
Engineering)
William Auberle William.Auberle@nau.edu
McAllister Chair in
Community, Culture
& Environment
Rom Coles
Bldg. 69, Room 213
523-5845
Bldg. 69, Room 310
Romand.Coles@nau.edu
523-6468
http://cefns.nau.edu/lAcademic/CENE/fac
ulty/WilliamAuberleCV.shtml
College of Social and Behavioral
Sciences
http://www2.nau.edu/community/node/15
Assistant Professor - Peter Friederici Peter.Friederici@nau.edu
Allied Faculty
523-6378
(School of
Bldg. 16, Room 321
Communication)
Assistant Professor
(Environmental
Economics and
Econometrics)
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Julie M. Mueller Julie.Mueller@nau.edu
532-6612
Bldg. 81, Room 425
Environmental Communication, Science
Writing, Environmental Journalism
http://www.nau.edu/sbs/communication/f
aculty/Friederici.htm
Franke College of Business –
Environmental Economics and
Econometrics
http://www.franke.nau.edu/faculty/fac.as
p?facultyid=147
As of January 2013
Professor, Chemistry Marin Robinson Marin.Robinson@nau.edu
& Biochemistry Chair
523-6295
(Physical and
Bldg. 20, Room 130
Atmospheric
Chemistry)
Chemistry and Biochemistry
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/EnvS
ci/mrobinson.shtml
Development Officer
(Director, Strategic
Environmental
Initiatives)
Shelley Silbert
University Development Office – NAU
Environmental Caucus
http://envcaucus.nau.edu/
Regents Professor,
Associated Faculty
Zachary Smith
Shelley.Silbert@nau.edu
523-7635
Zachary.Smith@nau.edu
523-7020
Bldg. 65, Room 203
Associate Professor
(Vertebrate Ecology)
Tad Theimer
Tad.Theimer@nau.edu
523-8374
Bldg. 21, Room 301
Biology – Vertebrate Biology,
Mammalogy, Wildlife Management,
Ornithology
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/Biolo
gy/Faculty/TadTheimer.shtml
Adjunct Faculty
MS (Environmental
Sciences & Policy)
Ethan Aumack
Ethan.Aumack@nau.edu
Conservation & Ecosystem Restoration,
Grand Canyon Trust
http://www.grandcanyontrust.org/about.p
hp
Cultural and Regional
Studies, Prescott
College
Bernardo
Aguilar
BAguilar@nau.edu
http://www.prescott.edu/faculty_staff/fac
ulty/index.html#aguilar
Assistant Professor,
Biological Sciences,
Trinidad State Junior
College
Randy Bangert
Randy.Bangert@nau.edu
http://oak.ucc.nau.edu/rkb/rkb/home.html
Research
Coordinator,
Colorado Plateau
Cooperative
Ecosystems Studies
Judy Bischoff
Judy_Bischoff(at)nps.gov
National Park Service
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Orgs/CPCESU/
Planetary Geology,
Cosmochemistry
Theodore
Bunch
Ph.D. - Ecology of
Mycorrhizal Fungi in
Natural and Managed
Ecosystems
Bala
Chaudhary
Veer.B.Chaudhary@nau.edu
Ph.D. – Research
Ecologist, USGS
Southwest Biological
Science Center
Kenneth Cole
Kenneth.Cole@nau.edu
Ph.D. – Professor of
Agroecology,
Prescott College
Timothy Crews
523-6638
523-0089
523-7767
http://sites.google.com/site/balachaudhar
ysoil/
http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/about/contact/bio
/cole_ken.aspx?id=214
http://www.prescott.edu/faculty_staff/fac
ulty/tcrews/
As of January 2013
Ph.D. – Prehistoric
Archaeology,
Settlement Pattern
Analysis,
Ethnographic Studies
Mark Elson
mde39@nau.edu
Vertebrate
Paleontology
David Gillette
David.Gillette@nau.edu
Tectonics of the
Cordillera, Igneous
Petrology
Gordon Haxel
Restoration Ecology
and Invasive Species
Ron Hiebert
Informal Science
Education
Michael Kelly
Geomorphology,
Evolution of the
Colorado Plateau,
Tectonics
Ivo Lucchitta
http://www.desert.com/about/staff.html
Ron.Hiebert@nau.edu
523.0877
il79@nau.edu
http://instaar.colorado.edu/people/bios/m
arkgraf.html
Ph.D.- South
Vera Markgraf
American & Southern
Hemisphere
Paleoclimates and
Interhemispheric
Paleoclimate
Correlations
Vera.Markgraf@nau.edu
Ph.D. – Research
Wildlife Biologist,
USGS SW Biological
Science Center
David Mattson
David.Mattson@nau.edu
Rocky Mountain Research Station
http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/about/contact/bio
/mattson_david.aspx?id=201
Ph.D. – Ecologist,
USGS Southwest
Biological Science
Center
Mark Miller
Mark_Miller(at)usgs.gov
http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/about/contact/bio
/miller_mark.aspx?id=313
Ph.D. – Director,
Environmental Edu.
Graduate Program
Mery Lea Environ.
Learning Center,
Goshen College
David
Ostergren
David.Ostergren@nau.edu
Archaeology
Francis Smiley
MS – Program
Manager, Southern
Colorado Plateau
Inventory &
Monitoring
Lisa Thomas
523-7276
daveo(at)goshen.edu
Lisa.Thomas@nau.edu
523-9280
National Park Service
http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sc
pn/aboutus.cfm#Staff
As of January 2013
Ph.D. – Remote
Sensing & GIS
Specialist, Geospatial
Database Manager at
Research Innovation
Technology Admin.
Yaguang Xu
Yaguang.Xu@nau.edu
USDOT
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/EnvS
ci/YaguangXu.shtml
As of January 2013