Environmental Sciences and Studies 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  

Nancy Collins Johnson, Ph.D., 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

Angela B. Moline, Ph.D.,  Lecturer in Environmental

Sciences and Studies

(B.S. University of Notre Dame, B.S. University of Minnesota,  M.S. Northern Arizona  University, Ph.D., Colorado St.  University, 2007)

Ecology, Conservation, and Mangement

Of aquatic ecosystems

NAU 2008

Erik Nielsen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy and Management

(B.A. University of California San Diego, Master’s in Public Policy, Rutgers, Ph.D. University of Idaho)

Environmental Policy Analysis, community-based conservation projects, planning and collaboration on sustainable resource management

NAU 2008

Michael H. Ort, Ph.D., 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  

Roderic A. Parnell Jr., Ph.D., Professor in Geology and Environmental Sciences

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

Hydrogeochemistry, biogeochemistry, restoration and remediation of streams and rivers

NAU 1984  

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

Abe Springer, Ph.D., Professor in Geology, and director, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

(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 2008

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  

Romand Coles, Ph.D. Professor and McAllister Chair in Community, Culture and the Environment

(B.S. Huxley College of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University; M.S., Western Washington University; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts 1988)

continental political philosophy, critical theory, existential phenomenology

NAU 2008

Marcus P. Ford, Ph.D., Professor in Humanities

B.A., University of Puget Sound; M.A., School of Theology at Claremont; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School 1978)

American philosophy, society and the environment, philosophy of education

NAU 1994

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., Professor Of Politics and International Affairs, Director of Environmental Studies

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

Environmental politics, environmental justice, environmental political theory

NAU 1996

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., 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 E. Miller, Ph.D

(B.S., Northern Arizona University; M.S., New Mexico State University; Ph.D., University of Colorado 2000)

Plant ecology

NAU 2007

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

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

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)