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
Email: baguilar@neotropica.org
Research interests: Community-based conservation, sustainable development

R. Scott Anderson
Emeritus Professor
Email: Scott.Anderson@nau.edu
Research interests: Paleoecology, human-landscape interactions, forest history
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

Joseph Byrnes
Affiliate Faculty
Email: Joseph.Byrnes@UTDallas.edu
Research interests: Passive seismic imaging, tectonics, mantle convection, and volcanic systems
Diana Calvo Martinez
Affiliate Faculty
NAU Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering
Email: Diana.Calvo@nau.edu
Research interests: Environmental engineering, biotechnology, microbiology
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
Brett Dickson
Emeritus Professor
Conservation Science Partners
Email: Brett.Dickson@nau.edu
Research interests: Conservation biology, landscape and wildlife ecology, statistical ecology
Mark Elson
Affiliate Faculty
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Email: markelson@email.arizona.edu
Research interests: Southwest U.S. archaeology
Michael Erb
Affiliate Faculty
Email: erbm@appstate.edu
Research interests: Paleoclimatology, climate modeling, data assimilation
Paul Grams
Affiliate Faculty
USGS
Email: pgrams@usgs.gov
Research interests: Geomorphology, Colorado River

Kerry Grimm
Affiliate Faculty
Email: Kerry.Grimm@nau.edu
Research interests: Human-environment interactions, political ecology, collaboration, conservation and land use

Thomas Hoisch
Emeritus Professor
Office: Building 12
Email: Thomas.Hoisch@nau.edu
Research interests: Metamorphic petrology, orogenesis, geodynamic modeling
Laura Huenneke
Emeritus Professor
Email: Laura.Huenneke@nau.edu
Research interests: Plant ecology, conservation
Jani Ingram
Affiliate Faculty
NAU Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Email: jani.ingram@nau.edu
Research interests: Analytical and environmental chemistry

Matt Kaplinski
Emeritus Research Associate
Research interests: Sandbar studies in the Colorado River








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