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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Thesis: An 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 Thesis: Agriculture and society in arid lands: A Hohokam case study |
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Wiebke Foerch Advisor Climate smart agriculture Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Nairobi, Kenya wfoerch@web.de Graduated: 2012 Thesis: Community Resilience in Drylands and Implications for Local Development in Tigray, Ethiopia |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Amy McCoy Manager, Arizona Programs AMP Insights Tucson, AZ amy@ampinsights.com Graduated: 2009 Thesis: Riparian Dynamics: The Ebb and Flow of Ecological Function |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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William Jackson Ward Tech. Rep., APT Research Huntsville, AL wjward@dfehs.com Graduated: 2008 Thesis: 1,4-Dioxane Remediation Using a Constructed Wetland |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |