Angel, J Roger P
Regents' Professor of Astronomy, Regents' Professor of Optical Sciences, Director of the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory
Archer, Steven R.
Professor, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
Plant ecology and ecosystem sciences. Interdisciplinary research on dry-land plant community dynamics and succession, with an emphasis on grass-woody plant interactions in relation to soils, climate, disturbance, and land use.
Arenas, Alberto
Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
He specializes in the connections between pedagogy and environmental sustainability; experiential education, with an emphasis on vocational education; and the decolonization of education with a focus on restoring culturally-rich, non-commodified knowledge and skills.
Austin, Diane, Executive Committee
Professor and Director, School of Anthropology, Research Anthropologist (BARA)
Long-term, multi-sectoral partnerships with governmental, non-governmental, academic, and business organizations, with emphasis on the development of community-based participatory research approaches.
Bakkensen, Laura
Associate Professor, School of Government & Public Policy
Economics of natural disasters, identifying current risks and evidence of adaptation to damages and fatalities across the globe. She also evaluates individual, community, and policy responses to natural disasters including hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. Her research informs public policy on insurance regulation, disaster aid, severe weather warnings, and public adaptation. .
Banister, Jeffrey
Director, Associate Research Social Scientist, Associate Editor and Associate Research Professor, Southwest Center, UA
Political geography; visual culture and infrastructure; water politics; US-MExico drug wars and geographies of illegality; Mexico/Latin America
Baro, Mamadou A.
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Associate Research Anthropologist (BARA)
Participatory Development, Household Livelihood Security, Applied Anthropology, Land Tenure, Gender and International Development with special focus on Africa and the Caribbean, and Research Methodology.
Barron-Gafford, Greg
Associate Professor, Biogeography and Ecosystem Science, School of Geography & Development and Biosphere 2
Leaf, soil, and ecosystem scale fluxes of carbon and water in response to vegetative and climatic change.
Bauer, Carl J.
Professor, School of Geography & Development
Comparative and international water law and policy in diffrent contexts of Chilte, Estern U.S., Spain , and Mexico.
Bogan, Michael
Assistant Professor of Aquatic Ecology, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Arid Lands, Conservation Biology, Invasive Species
Buechler, Stephanie
Assistant Professor Udall Center
Gender and natural resource management, gender, agriculture and water, gender, migration and climate change, gender and climate adaptation, urban, peri-urban and rural agricultural livelihoods, gender, agriculture and renewable energy, gender and mining, youth's experiences with flooding
Buizer, James
Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Chalfoun, Nader V.,
Professor (Retired), Architecture and Environmental Sciences, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Energy conservation, passive solar architecture, outdoor environmental comfort, green building materials, and sustainable architecture.
Chief, Karletta
Associate Professor, American Indian Studies and Associate Specialist in the department of Environmental Sciences
Enviromental Sciences - Extension; Associate Specialist: Improving our understanding, tools, and predictions of watershed hydrology, unsaturated flow in arid environments, and how natural and human disturbances affect soil hydrology through the use of physically based methods. Chair, Indigenous Food / Energy / Water Systems - GIDP
Colby, Bonnie G.
Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Resource economics, impacts of climate change on resource utilization and value of natural areas, hydrology and water resources.
Comrie, Andrew C.
Professor, Geography & Development
Climatology, air pollution, environmental issues.
Creasman, Pearce Paul
Curator, and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Dendrochronology, The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
The study of human and environmental interactions, maritime archaelogy, dendroarhaeceology, and Egyptian archaelogy.
Crimmins, Michael, Executive Committee
Professor, Environmental Science
Increasing climate science literacy and developing strategies to adapt to a changing climate. Implementation of drought preparedness and impact monitoring plans.
Crisman, Jonathan Jae-an
Assistant Professor, Public & Applied Humanities
His current research focuses on the role that art and culture can play as forms of political engagement in gentrifying cities, and (with collaborator Maite Zubiaurre) on the forensic, cultural, and political practices around migrant death in the Borderlands.
Cuello, Joel
Professor, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering
Applying engineering to put biological systems to work. Bioreactor design & secondary metabolite production.
Engineer, Altaf
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Research interests include social, cultural, and behavioral factors in design with a special focus on daylighting, health and wellbeing. .
Ernst, Kacey C., Executive Committee
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Examining the links between environment and environmental change and infectious disease transmission; particularly vector-borne diseases.
Evans, Tom P
Professor, School of Geography & Development
Focuses primarily on agricultural decision-making, food security and environmental governance but have had past projects related to deforestation/reforestation, urban ecosystems, community resilience.
Ferguson, Daniel B.
Associate Research Scientist, Institute of the Environment, Associate Research Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment
Climate and adaptation; Governance, Law, and POlic; Science Engagement
Finan, Timothy J.
Research Anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. Professor School of Anthropology
Applied anthropology, cultural and societal impacts of climate vulnerability, famine vulnerability and early warning.
Fisher, Larry F.
Research Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Franklin, Edward
Associate Professor, Agriculture Education
Principles and Practices of Agricultural Mechanization, Turf and Landscape Technology, Applications in Agricultural Mechanics, Operations in Agricultural Mechanics, and Instructional Materials Development
Gallery, Rachel
Associate Professor and Associate Director, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
Garfin, Gregg, Executive Committee
Associate Professor and Associate Extension Specialist, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
Research Topics: Climate Adaptation and Sustainability; Global Change Management; and Watershed Management.
Gerlak, Andrea
Associate Professor and Associate Extension Specialist, School of School of Geography & Development
Research Topics: Water governance and policy; Global environmental policy; Transboundary waters; Groundwater management; Resilience, adaptatation, social-ecological ystesms; Western U.S., U.S., Latin America, SE Aisa, Europe.
Gimblett, H. Randy
Professor, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
Guertin, Phillip D.
Professor, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
Watershed hydrology and management; watershed assessment and planning; nonpoint source pollution; geographic information science and technology
Guido Zackry
Program manager and research scientist for the University of Arizona’s International Research and Applications Program (IRAP) and research affiliate at the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS).
Quantifying climate impacts on water resources (including glaciers), co-producing end-to-end climate services, and advancing climate risk management through participatory processes.
Gunatilaka, Leslie
Professor, Southwest Center for Natural Products Research & Commercialization, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
Application of natural product chemistry to solve problems of human and animal health and agriculture.
Holliday, Vance Terrell
Professor, School of Anthropology & Geosciences (Adjunct in Geography)
Geoarchaeology, Paleoindian archaeology, soil-geomorphology, and Quaternary landscape evolution and paleoenvironments.
Hughes, Malcolm
Associate Professor Emeritus, Regents Professor, Dendrochronology, The Laboratory of the Tree-Ring Research
Climatology, modeling, dendrochronology. Specific areas of interest include past climate in Europe, Asia, and the Sierra Nevada, as indicated by tree rings.
Ida, Aletheia
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Chair MS. Arch EBT
She integrates design theory in her research for emergent environmental building technologies, incorporating aspects of material inventions with socio-environmental performance criteria through innovative digital and physical prototyping methods.
Kear, Mark Thomas Fraser
Assistant Professor, School of Geography and Development
Financial Geography, Urban Geography, Ethnography, Urban Poverty, Financial Exclusion, Financial Literacy, Financial Empowerment, Governmentality, Biopolitics, Credit and Debt, Personal/Consumer Finance, Financial Regulation, Payment Systems
Keith, Ladd
Assistant Professor in Planning and Chair of Sustainable Built Environments
His research is at the intersection of urban planning and climate science and explores how policy innovation in local governance can make more sustainable and resilient cities.
Liverman, Diana
Regents Professor, School of Geography and Development and Co-Director, Institute of the Environment
Global change, climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and climate policy and mitigation especially in the developing world.
Livingston, Margaret
Professor, Landscape Architecture
Ecological and environmental issues in arid environments; use of native plants and design of urban wildlife spaces.
Lopez Hoffman, Laura
Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Conservation biology and policy, transboundary conservation, ecosytem servies.
Marsh, Stuart E., Executive Committee
Associate Director, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Professor, Arid Lands Resource Sciences Ph.D. Program, and The School of Geography and Development
Land use and land cover change; impacts of climate and anthropogenic change on arid lands; Remote sensing; application of geospatial technologies to environmental studies; Development of decision support systems for natural resource management
McClaran, Mitchel P.
Professor, Range Management , The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Rangeland plant ecology and management, with particular emphasis on arid grasslands and savannas
Meadow, Alison
Associate Research Professor, Institute of the Environment and the Center for Climate Adaptatiton Science and Solutions
Environmental ecoogy; her research focuses on the process of linking scientists with stakeholders to co-produce climate science knowledge.
Megdal, Sharon B.
Director, Water Resources Research Center, Professor, of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Director of The University of Arizona Water Sustainability Program
State and regional water resources management and policy with areas of focus including storage and recovery programs, regional approaches to water management, ecosystem restoration, and the role of the private sector in water delivery.
Meixner, Thomas
Professor and Department Head, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
Watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry hydrologic controls on water quality, GIS, remote sensing, hydrochemical modeling, atmospheric chemistry, aqueous geochemistry, water quality modeling, sensitivity analysis, automatic parameter estimation, semi-arid hydrology, riparian sustainability, climate change impacts on water resources, and multi-criteria analysis.
Molnar, Istvan, Chair ALRS and ABS
Professor and Associate Director, Natural Products Center, Chair, Arid Lands Resource Sciences GIDP, Director of Graduate Studies, Applied Biosciences track in Industrial Microbial Biotechnology, Chair Applied Biosciences
Biosynthetic engineering, microbial genetics, combinatorial biosynthesis, genomics, biocatalysis, industrial biotechnology, drug discovery, natural products, antibiotics, anticancer agents, biofuels
Moore, David
Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Climate adaptation and sustatainability; ecohydrology & biogeochemistry; geospatial science & modeling; global change management; plant & soil ecology; and remote sensing.
Morrissey, Katherine G.
Associate Professor, History
Research on the North American West focusing on the region's environmental, social, cultural, and intellectual history.
Nabhan, Gary
Research Social Scientist, Southwest Center, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Desert agro-ecology, agro-biodiversity, seed-saving, water-harvesting, on-farm pollination enhancement or climate-friendly strategies for local food production.
Park, Thomas K.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor (MENAS), Associate Research Anthropologist (BARA)
Urbanization in Africa and the Middle East, complexity theory, economic theory, mathematical methodologies in anthropology and history, the history of credit, flood recession agriculture, the Sahara, the Sahel, North Africa, development, economic history, North African Arabic archives, bureaucracy in Africa and the Middle East, colonialism & imperialism, anthropology of law, Islam, land tenure, 18th to 21st C European philosophy, foragers in arid lands, pastoralism, Pyrrhonic skepticism, political ecology.
Prudic, Kathleen
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Quanrud, David M.
Associate Research Scientist, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Arid lands; ecohydrology and bigeochemistry; and water resources management.
Ray, Dennis T.
University Distinguished Professor & Faculty Fellow, Plant Sciences, The School of Plant Sciences, Arid Lands Studies
Evaluate new crops and products for cultivation and processing in arid environments. Read more at: http://cals.arizona.edu/spls/content/dennis-t
Silvertooth, Jeffrey C.
Associate Dean, Agricultural Extension Administration, Professor, Environmental Science
Development of crop production management strategies that optimize the soil-plant system agronomically and economically, with full consideration of the short- and long-term impact of inputs environmentally.
Slack, Donald C.
Dean's Chair for Excellence, Cecil Miller Families, Professor, Agriculture & Biosystems Engineering
On farm water management practices; irrigation systems & technologies; watershed hydrology; erosion control; biofuels from Sorghum.
Smith, Steven E.
Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Department of Plant Sciences
Cimate adaptation and sustainability; conservation biology; geospatial science & modeling; plant genetics & improvement; evolutionary ecology.
Smith, William Kolby
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Department of Plant Sciences
Arid Lands, Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry, Ecology Management and Restoration of Rangelands, Geospatial Science and Modeling, Remote Sensing
Snyder, Katherine
Professor, School of Geography and Development, Director, Master's in Development Practice
Research on climate change and adaptation, fisheries management and governance, wildlife and community based management and tourism, watershed governance, and sustainable land management, specifically in Africa.
Soto, Jose
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Stoffle, Richard W.
Research Anthropologist, Professor, School of Anthropology, BARA
Cultural anthropology, social impact assessment, developmental anthropology, Native Americans, Caribbean industrial anthropology, fisheries, Ethnobotany; satellite imagery.
Stoker, Philip
Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture
Ecology, planning, and natural resource management, urban water demand and the integration of land use planning with water management.
Torres, Robert
Professor and Department Head, Agricultural Education
Advances in career and technical education in agriculture.
Tronstad, Russell
Professor and Extension Specialist;Agricultural & Resource Economics
Agricultural marketing, risk management, international trade, and operations research methods. Fruit and vegetable commodities, range livestock, and field crops are a part of his research and extension activities
Trouet, Valerie, Executive Committee
Associate Professor of Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
Reconstruction of atmospheric circulation patterns and how they influence fire regimes through the use of tree-rings.
Valdes, Juan B.
Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources
Stochastic and deterministic hydrology, flood forecasting, mathematical models of natural resources systems, modeling of space-time precipitation, environmental risk assessment, and stochastic modeling of environmental processes.
Van Leeuwen, Willem
Professor, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
Land Surface Phenology; Biogeography; Remote Sensing Science and Applications of Coupled Natural and Human Systems; Geospatial & Temporal Decision Support Systems and Tools for Land and Water management; Assessing Impact of Fire and Drought on Vegetation Response Drylands around the World.
Varady, Robert G.
Research Profesor of Environmental Policy and Immediate Past Director Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Environmental policy; environmental history. with an emphasis on transboundary issues, especially along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Washburne, James C.
Research Specialist, Sr., Department of Hydrology & Water Resources
Basin scale hydrology/runoff using remotely sensed data; land surface Parameterization in mesoscale; assimilation of soil moisture into hydrologic models; applying emerging technologies to distributed hydrologic modeling.
Wilder, Benjamin Theodore
Director, Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, University of Arizona
His research is broadly focused in desert ecology and botany. he utilizes multiple approaches and time scales to establish baselines to better understand modern biodiversity and connect science to conservation.
Wilder, Margaret, Executive Committee
Associate Professor, School of Geography & Development
Critical water governance, transboundary climate vulnerabiity and adaptation, water equity and security, and water and climate justice. I primarily work in the interior of Mexico and the US-Mexico border region, and in the southwestern US, and have interests in Central America (El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama)
Woodhouse, Connie
Regent's Professor, School of Geography and Development
Climate and paleoclimate of western North America, with emphasis on drought and water issues; reconstruction of past climate and hydrology using tree rings, analysis of past and current climate variability, and the investigation of circulation features that influence regional climate.
Yetman, David A.
Research Social Scientist, Southwest Studies Center
Ecology and rural development relating to southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, ethnobotany, border issues.
Zuniga Teran, Adriana, Executive Committee
Assistant Research Scientist, School of Landscapre Architecture and Planning and at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
She explores questions related to green infrastructure and urban resilience, environmental justice, water security in cities of Latin America, groundwater governance, and other environmental issues in arid lands.
