The following is a working list of faculty members involved with climate change activities at NAU. This list is under construction and will be updated regularly. For more information about each researcher and selected publications, click here (excel document) (note: the selected publications are embedded into the spreadsheet as .pdf files).
| Name |
Research Interest |
Affiliation |
Scott Anderson |
Disturbance ecology; paleoecology and climate history of plant communities; global climate issues. |
Environmental Science |
Samantha Arundel |
Climate Change, Plant Geography, Arid Southwest, GIS and Spatial Modelling, and Remote Sensing. |
Geography, Planning & Recreation |
| Neil Cobb |
Arthropod biodiversity,plant-herbivore interactions,ecology of pinyon-juniper woodlands, climate and land-use change. |
Biological Sciences,
Merriam Powell Center |
| Kenneth Cole |
Research on vegetation change involving many variables responsible for changes including climate, migration, grazing, fire, and soil development. |
USGS Colorado Plateau Research Station |
| Catherine (Kitty) Gehring |
Plant-mycorrhizal-herbivore interactions in semi-arid environments in Arizona and tropical rainforests in Australia. |
Biological Sciences |
| Marcus Ford |
American philosophy, society and the environment, philosophy of education |
Humanities, Arts, & Religion |
| Alex Finkral |
Silviculture, forest management planning, forest stand dynamics, forest operations. |
Forestry |
| Steve Hart |
Biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, restoration ecology, effects of forest management on long-term site productivity, effects of global climatic change on forest ecosystems. |
Forestry |
| Matthew Hurteau |
Climate change and forest management, nitrogen cycling. |
Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Reserach |
| Richard Hofstetter |
Community ecology, Population Dynamics, Tritrophic Interactions, Mutualisms, Symbioses. |
Forestry |
| Ching-Hsuan Huang |
Forest Economics, Optimal Forest Management, Carbon Sequestration, Market and Non-market Ecosystem Services |
Forestry |
| Bruce Hungate |
Ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry roles of plants and soil microorganisms in element cycles, ecosystem renses and feedbacks to global change. |
Biological Sciences,
National Institute for Climate Change Research |
| Darrell Kaufman |
Environmental changes, particularly those related to paleoclimate, that shaped the Earth's surface during the Quaternary Period. |
Geology,
Amino Acid Geochronology Laboratory |
| George Koch |
Plant ecological physiology, effects of climate change on plant biogeography and ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling and primary productivity. |
Biological Sciences,
National Institute for Climate Change Research
|
| Tom Kolb |
Tree physiology, ecophysiology of ponderosa pine, riparian and pinyon-juniper forests. |
Forestry |
| Ben Sullivan |
Effects of disturbance on carbon dioxide and methane exchange in a ponderosa pine forest. |
Forestry |
| Sandra Lubarsky |
Philosophy of religion, religion and the environment, aesthetics, sustainable communities |
Master of Arts in Sustainable Communities |
| Susan Smith |
Laboratory of Paleoecology. |
Bilby Research Center |
