Where are they now?

We want to share with you the whereabouts and accomplishments of some ALRS graduates in this section:

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Saleh Ahmed

Assistant Professor, Boise State University School of Public Service
salehahmed@boisestate.edu
Graduated: 2019
Thesis: Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-lying Coastal Bangladesh: Implications for Climate Service

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Mary Belle Cruz Ayala
Researcher, State Water Commission, Baja California Sur, Mexico
marybelca0@gmail.com
Graduated: 2021
Thesis: Managed Aquifer Recharge in Mexico: Opportunities to Increase Water Availability in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions and Science-Policy Interactions
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Rosalind Bark

Lecturer in ecological economics at University of East Anglia (UEA)Marie Curie Research Fellow at University of Leeds and Visiting Researcher at University of Leeds
R.H.Bark@leeds.ac.uk
Graduated: 2006
Thesis: Muddy waters: Case studies in dry land water resource economics

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Sandra Bernal

Lecturer, Architecture (Career Track), College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture and Online Course Developer, Religious Studies and Classics University of Arizona
sbernal@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2018
Thesis:  Socially Constructed Narratives for Exploring the Impacts of Air Pollutant Infiltration in Built Environments

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Viviana Barquero
Division Director, School of Architecture Art and Design, Monterey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Monterey, Mexico
viviana.barquero@itesm.mx
Graduated: 2016
Thesis: Livelihood Assessment for Rural Delicias Chihuahua as Means for Developing a Community Energy Model
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Stephen W. Bieda III, PhD, CIV, USAF
Science & Operations Officer (Meteorologist) ,
National Weather Service, Amarillo, TX Weather Forecasting Office

stephen.bieda@noaa.gov
Graduated: 2012
Thesis: Flash Flood Causing Mechanisms of the North American Monsoon System in the Sonoran Desert
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Grant Casady
Assistant Professor
Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
gcasady@whitworth.edu
Graduated: 2008
Thesis: Examining Drivers of Post-Wildfire Vegetation Dynamics Across Multiple Scales Using Time-Series Remote Sensing
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Nader Chalfoun
Retired Professor of Architecture & Environmental Sciences
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
chalfoun@email.arizona.edu
Graduated :1989
Thesis: "Appropriate energy design guidelines for new desert housing in Egypt: "A case study for cluster houses at Sadat City".
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Samuel N. Chambers
Geographer
USGS Western Geographic Science Center, Tucson AZ 
schambers@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2015
Thesis: "Corridors and Elk Migration: A Comparative Analysis of Landscape Connectivity Models and GPS Data in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem"
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Nelson Cronyn
Country Director, Peace Corps
Tanzania, Africa
velo.afrique@gmail.com
ncronyn@peacecorps.gov
Graduated: 2012
Thesis: Global Change and Livelihood Adaptations among the Tuareg of Niger

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Amy Eisenberg
Center for World Indigenous Studies Associate Scholar
dramyeis@yahoo.com
Graduated: 2002
Thesis: Aymara Perspectives: Ethnoecological Studies in Andean Communities of Northern Chile

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Barbara Eiswerth
Executive Director at Iskashitaa Refugee Network
eiswerth@iskashitaa.org
Graduated: 2003
ThesisAn evaluation of soil erosion hazard: A case study in Southern Africa using geomatics technologies
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Abd Salam El Vilaly
Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund)
East & Southern Africa Regional Office

abdsalam.vilaly@gmail.com
Graduated: 2013
Thesis: Drought Monitoring with Remote Sensing Based Land Surface Phenology: Applications and Validation
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Drew Eppehimer
Postdoctoral Researcher, US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Sciences Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ
deppehimer@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2021
Thesis: Ecological Impacts of Artificial Flows in an Effluent-Dependent Aridland River
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Suzanne Fish
Curator Emerita, Arizona State Museum
Professor Emerita, School of Anthropology
University of Arizona
sfish@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 1993
ThesisAgriculture and society in arid lands: A Hohokam case study
Wiebke Foerch

Wiebke Foerch
Advisor
Climate smart agriculture
Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Nairobi, Kenya
wfoerch@web.de
Graduated: 2012
ThesisCommunity Resilience in Drylands and Implications for Local Development in Tigray, Ethiopia
Joanne Gallaher
Associate Research Scientist
Soil, Water, and Environment Sciences, UA, Tucson, AZ
joanneg@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2010
Thesis: Ecotourism as a Social-Ecological System: A Case Study in Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Joe L. Graham

Joe L. Graham
Director, American Indian Resource Program
University of California-Irvine
jgraham1@uci.edu
Graduated: 2012
Thesis: A Bountiful Harvest: Pueblo of Laguna College Graduates Assessment of Tribal Utilization of Subsidized Academic Capital

Andy Hale

Andy Hale
Country Director, DR Congo; Chief of Party, Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture
Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Africa
adhale@gmail.com
Graduated: 2011
Thesis: Climate Change and Agricultural Policy Effects on Water Use in Agricultural Production: A Positive Mathematical Programming Approach
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Jeffrey Muir Hamilton
Horticultural Consultant
Gray House Farms, LLC, Selah, Washington
jeffreymuirhamilton@me.com
Graduated: 2009
Thesis: Arugula Crop Production in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: Nutritional Value, Postharvest Quality, and Sustainability in Controlled Environment
Linkedin: Jeffrey Muir Hamilton
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/grayhousefarm
Stefanie Herrmann

Stefanie Herrmann
Associate Research Scientist, Agricultural -Biosystems Engineering
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
stefanie@ag.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2006
Thesis: Human-Environment Relationships in Drylands - with a Focus on the West African Sahel
Daniel Higgins

Daniel Higgins
Consultant
Resilience Outreach/Southwest, Inc.  AZ
daniel.b.higgins@asu.edu
Graduated: 2010
Thesis: The Black Mesa case study: A postaudit and pathology of coal-energy groundwater exploitation in the Hope and Dine Lands
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Scott Jones
Assistant Professor of Practice in Geographic Information Systems, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Arizona
scottajones@arizona.edu
Graduated: 2023
Thesis: Ecosystem Services on Shrub-Encroached Rangelands: Balancing Supply and Demand
Erin Jordan

Erin Jordan
Surface Water Quality Improvement Value Stream Manager at the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality ADEQ
jordan.erin@azdeq.gov
Graduated: 2018
Thesis: Residential Flood Risk and Knowledge Assessment in the Tucson Metropolitan Area

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Ladd Keith
Assistant Professor and Chair of the Sustainable Built Environment program at the
College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona
ladd@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2019
Thesis: Planning for Climate Change Mitigation and Resilience: Assessing Policy Innovation in the U.S. Southwest
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Ryan H. Lee
Member, Water Resources and Policy Group, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Rhlee@email.arizona.edu
ryan.rhlee@gmail.com
Graduated: 2019
Thesis: Water Resources, Tiered Institutions, and Rural-Urban Land Use in Coupled Social-Ecological Dryland Systems: Evidence from the Sonoran Desert
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Yu Rong "Joy" Liu
Biodiversity Consultant
Wildlife Habitat Council
Graduated: 2021
Thesis: Investigating afforestation and collaborative environmental governance in rural China
Aaron Lien
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Resources & the Environment,  University of Arizona
alien@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2017
Thesis: Incentives for Ecosystem Services on Rangelands: Institutional Design and Stakeholder Attitudes
America Lutz Ley
Researcher-Professor
El Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico
alutz@colsonmx.onmicrosoft.com
Graduated: 2016
Thesis: Human Adaptation to Social and Environmental Changes in Rural Communities of the San Miguel Watershed in Arid Northwest Mexico
Fernando Daniel de Oliveira Mayorga
Professor
Universidad Federal do Ceara
Campus de Sobral
Curso de Ciências Econômicas e Finanças
fmayorga@ufc.br
fmayorgaufc@gmail.com
Graduated: 2015
Thesis: Growth, Equity, and Sustainability: A Case study of the Impacts of Green Revolution Change in Ceara, Northeast, Brazil
Amy McCoy
Manager, Arizona Programs
AMP Insights
Tucson, AZ
amy@ampinsights.com
Graduated: 2009
Thesis: Riparian Dynamics: The Ebb and Flow of Ecological Function
Lezlie Moriniere
Analyst: Building Capacity for Optimized Public Investment in CCA & DDR
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
lezliemoriniere@yahoo.com
Graduated: 2010
Thesis: A Well-Founded Fear? Tracing the Footprints of Environmentally Influenced Human Mobility
Kelly Mott-Lacroix
Forest hydrologist and watershed program manager at the Tonto National Forest
kmottlacroix@fs.fed.us
Graduated:2015
Thesis: Advancing Water Management Through Methods to Assess Environmental Flow Needs and Improve Stakeholder Engagement
Gary Nabhan
Research Social Scientist, Southwest Studies Center
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
gpnabhan@email.arizona.edu
Graduated:1983
Thesis: Papago fields: arid lands ethnobotany and agricultural ecology
Luis Alan Navarro Navarro
Associate Research Professor
El Colegio de Sonora
http://mx.linkedin.com/in/alannavarro
Graduated: 2012
Thesis: Social embeddedness of traditional irrigation systems in the Sonoran Desert: a Social Network Approach
Luis Nunez Noriega
Delegate of the Ministry of Economy (representing the Mexican Ministry of Economy, Mr. Ildefonso Guajardo)
luisn@ciad.mx
Graduated: 2004
Thesis: Production and commercialization of bacanora: An economic opportunity for Sonora, Mexico? 
Anahi Ocampo-Melgar
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sociohydrology, Universidad de Chile
Santiago de Chile, Chile
anahiom@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2014
Thesis: Participatory multi-criteria assessment for monitoring actions and support decision making to combat desertification in the San Simon Watershed (Arizona) 
Aaryn Olsson
Senior Software Engineer
Planet Labs., https://www.planet.com/
Adjunct Instructor , University of Arizona GIST program (https://gis.arizona.edu)
and Image Scientist at Arizona Desert Museum
aaryno@gmail.com
Graduated: 2010
Thesis: Ecosystem Transformation by Buffelgrass: Climatology of Invasion, Effects on Arizona Upland Diversity, and Remote Sensing Tools for Managers
Barron J. Orr
Leading Scientist, Science Technology and Implementatio (STI)
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
barron.orr@gmail.com
bjorr@unccd.int
Graduated: 2000
Thesis: More Users and More Uses: Choosing Between Land and Forest in Malawi's Protected Areas
Rafael Payan
General Manager, Monterey Peninsula Regional Parks District
Monterey, CA
payan@mprpd.org
Graduated: 2012
Thesis: How Do We Keep Conservation Alive When Kids Have Less and Less Contact with Nature?
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Pamela Pelletier
Community Planner, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
University of Arizona, AZ
pamela@arizona.edu
Graduated: 2023
Thesis: Igniting Minds Through Novel Approaches to Science Communication
Lisa A. Philander
Curator, College of Biological Sciences Conservatory
University of Minnesota, MN
phil0120@umn.edu
Graduated: 2010
Thesis: An Emergent Ethnomedicine: Rastafari Bush Doctors in the Western Cape, South Africa
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Marilen Pool
Conservation Specialist, Arizona State Museum
University of Arizona

mpool@arizona.edu
Graduated: 2023
Thesis: The Ethnobiology of LAC Scale (Tachardiella SPP.) in the Arid Southwest
Susan Qashu
Mentor/ Advisor
Prescott College

Prescott, Arizona
sqashu@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2010
Thesis: A marine resve and household nexus: Chilean livelihood adaptations at four sites in the coquimbo and atacama regions
John Regan
Retired Manager, Geographic Information Services Offices
Public Works Administration, Tucson, AZ
regan.john91@gmail.com
Graduated: 2011
Thesis: Land Use Predictors Affecting Land Disturbance in Exurban Arivaca, Arizona
Kanin Routson
Freelance Research Biologist
Edge Mountain Research, Prescott, AZ
kaninroutson@gmail.com
Graduated: 2012
Thesis: Malus Diversity in Wild and Agricultural Ecosystems
Ibrahima Sall
Research Associate University of Montana/USGS
Research Associate Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative (NRCC)
isall@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2019
Thesis: Agricultural Producers' Decision-Making and Preferences in Relation to Economic Incentives, Climate and Weather Conditions
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Ida Sami
Climate Resilience Policy & Practice Manager, Climate Resilience Consulting
sami@arizona.edu
Graduated: 2022
Thesis: Evaluation of Thermal Comfort at the Tucson Sun Link Streetcar Stops to Increase Heat Resilience
Simona Seastrand
Data Scientist, SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), Omaha Nebraska
simonaseastrand@gmail.com
Graduated: 2018
Thesis: The Seasonal Predictability of Extreme Wind Events in the Southwest United States
Garrett Smith
Adjunct Professor in the Natural Resource Management and Outdoor Recreation Leadership programs at Colorado Mountain College Treeline Campus, Leadville, CO
garrett.r.smith@gmail.com
Graduated: 2019
Thesis: Using Recreation Specialization and Sense of Place to Measure Recreational Users' Motivations within Boulder's Open Space and Mountain Parks
Petra Tschakert
Professor
School of Earth and Environment
School of Agricultural and Resource Economics
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley
Perth, WA 6009
Email: petra.tschakert@uwa.edu.au

Graduated: 2003
Thesis: Soil carbon sequestration in small-scale farming systems: A case study from the Old Peanut Basin in Senegal
William Jackson Ward
Tech. Rep., APT Research Huntsville, AL
wjward@dfehs.com
Graduated: 2008
Thesis: 1,4-Dioxane Remediation Using a Constructed Wetland
Jelena Vukomanovic
Assistant Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University
jvukoma@ncsu.edu
Graduated: 2013
Thesis: Exurbia as Physical and Social Space: Landscape Drivers and Ecological Impacts of Amenity Migration in the New West
Omar Youssef
Lecturer, Architecture, University of Arizona
omarmky@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2018
Thesis:  Development of a Human-centered Climatic Design Methodology for Transitional Spaces in Hot-arid Regions
Adriana Zuniga Teran
Assistant Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer,  Sustainable Built Environment, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
aazuniga@email.arizona.edu
Graduated: 2015
Thesis: From Neighborhoods to Wellbeing and Conservation: Enhancing the Use of Greenspace through Walkability