Environmental Sciences Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Diana Elder Anderson, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences and Quaternary Sciences

(B.S., M.S., Northern Arizona University; Ph.D., University of California–Riverside 1998)

Geomorphology, hydroclimatology, Quaternary geology, paleohydrology, arid land studies

NAU 1998  

R. Scott Anderson, Ph.D., Professor in Environmental Sciences and Quaternary Sciences, Director of Paleoecology Lab

(B.A., University of Colorado; M.S., University of Maine; Ph.D., University of Arizona 1987)

Paleoecology, Quaternary disturbance history, pollen analysis

NAU 1987  

Richard D. Foust Jr., Ph.D., Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences

(B.S., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., University of California–Santa Barbara 1971)

Environmental chemistry, trace element studies of natural systems by atomic spectroscopy, terpene analysis of natural samples by capillary column gas chromatography

NAU 1972  

Nancy Collins Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences and Biology

(B.S., University of Minnesota; M.S., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Minnesota 1991)

Mycorrhizae and soil ecology

NAU 1997

Darrell S. Kaufman, Ph.D., Professor in Geology, Environmental Sciences, and Quaternary Sciences

(B.S., University of California–Santa Cruz; M.S., University of Washington–Seattle; Ph.D., University of Colorado–Boulder 1991)

Quaternary geology, geomorphology

NAU 1998

Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., Professor in Environmental Sciences, Director of Center for Sustainable Environments

(B.A., Prescott College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Arizona 1983)

Botany, geography, nutritional ecology, conservation biology

NAU 2000

Michael H. Ort, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Geology, Environmental Sciences, and Quaternary Sciences

(B.S., University of California–Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of California–Santa Barbara 1991)

Recent volcanology of southwestern United States, South America, and Italy, isotope geochemistry, volcanic petrology

NAU 1991  

David M. Ostergren, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Forestry and Environmental Sciences

(B.S., M.Ed., University of Minnesota; M.A., Ph.D., West Virginia University 1997)

International protected area policy, natural resource management

NAU 1999

Roderic A. Parnell Jr., Ph.D., Professor in Geology and Environmental Sciences, Chair of Department of Environmental Sciences and Education, Director of Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

(B.A., Middlebury College; M.S., University of Massachusetts; Ph.D., Dartmouth College 1982)

Hydrogeochemistry, biogeochemistry

NAU 1984  

Marin Sands Robinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences

(B.A., Lake Erie College; M.S.W., University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Colorado–Boulder 1993)

Physical and atmospheric chemistry

NAU 1995  

Thomas D. Sisk, Ph.D., Professor in Environmental Sciences

(B.A., Colorado College; Ph.D., Stanford University 1992)

Population and community ecology, conservation biology, tropical biology, environmental policy and management

NAU 1996

Affiliated Faculty

William Auberle, M.S.E., Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering

(B.S.I.E., M.S.E., West Virginia University 1967)

Environmental policy, environmental risk management, air pollution, waste management

NAU 1991  

Paul Beier, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Forestry

(B.A., Catholic University of America; M.S., Ph.D., University of California–Berkeley 1988)

Wildlife-habitat relationships

NAU 1992  

Wilbert I. Odem, Jr., Ph.D. P.E., Associate Professor in Engineering and Technology

(B.A., University of Texas; M.S., Ph.D., University of Arizona 1991)

Civil and environmental engineering

NAU 1992

Lea J. Parker, M.A., Associate Professor in Communication

(B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Northern Arizona University 1983)

Environmental communication

NAU 1981  

David S. Schlosberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Political Science

(B.A., University of California–Santa Cruz; M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon 1996)

Environmentalism, environmental justice

NAU 1997

Zachary A. Smith, Ph.D., Regents’ Professor in Political Science

(B.A., California State University–Fullerton; M.A., Ph.D., University of California–Santa Barbara 1984)

Environmental politics

NAU 1989  

Abe Springer, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Geology

(B.A., College of Wooster; M.S., Ph.D., Ohio State University 1994)

Hydrogeology, environmental geology, saturated and unsaturated flow and transport modeling, contaminant hydrogeology, remediation and reclamation of groundwater and soil waters, riparian hydrogeology

NAU 1994

Jacqueline Vaughn, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Political Science

(B.S.Ed., Boston University; M.A., San Jose State University; Ph.D., University of California–Berkeley 1979)

Public administration, environmental politics, public policy, American politics

NAU 1997

Tad Theimer, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Biological Sciences

(B.S., University of the Pacific; M.S., Colorado State University; Ph.D., Northern Arizona University 1991)

Vertebrate zoology, wildlife, tropical rain-forest ecology, conservation biology

NAU 1997

Adjunct Faculty

Bernardo Aguilar Gonzales, J.D.

(M.S., University of Georgia; J.D., Universidad de Costa Rica 1988)

Ecological economics

NAU 2002

William M. Block, Ph.D.

(B.A., San Diego State University; B.S., Michigan State University; M.S., Humboldt State University; Ph.D., University of California–Berkeley 1989)

Ornithology, ecology

NAU 1998  

Kenneth L. Cole, Ph.D.

(B.S., University of Southern California; M.S., California State University–Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Arizona 1981)

Environmental history of public lands

NAU 1998  

Timothy Crews, Ph.D.

(B.A., University of California–Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Cornell University 1993)

Agroecology, sustainable agriculture

NAU 2001  

Ron Heibert, Ph.D.

(B.S., Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Ph.D., University of Kansas 1977)

Land management

NAU 2001  

David J. Mattson, Ph.D.

(B.S., M.S.; Ph.D., University of Idaho 2000)

Wildlife biology, policy sciences

NAU 2004

Mark K. Sogge, M.S.

(B.S., M.S., University of California–Davis 1988)

Avian ecology, science policy and administration

NAU 2004

Faculty Emeriti

James W. Byrkit, Ph.D., Professor

(B.S., Menlo School of Business Administration; M.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University)

NAU 1973 (retired 1996)