Faculty Members
| Area of Expertise | |||
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Steve Archer | Professor | Ecology of grasslands, savannas and shrublands, plant-soil-animal interactions, tree-grass dynamics, terrestrial carbon cycle, land cover change |
![]() | Mark W. Bierner | Professor | Plant Systematics |
![]() | Scott Bonar | Associate Professor | Fisheries management, desert fish conservation, natural resources communication and education, introduced species control and management |
| Kevin E. Bonine | Adjunct Professor | Conservation biology, herpetology, evolutionary & ecological physiology | |
![]() | David D. Breshears | Professor | Dryland ecohydrology, vegetation dynamics including drought-triggered die-off, wind and water erosion, gradients of woody plants (grassland-forest continuum), ecosystem carbon dynamics, enabling improved decision making and management for land use, pollution, and global change. |
![]() | Benedict J. Colombi | Assistant Professor | Natural resource and environmental policy; comparative indigenous communities; globalization and development; water policy and watershed management; fisheries |
| Courtney J. Conway | Associate Professor | avian ecology, behavioral ecology, life history evolution | |
![]() | Melanie Culver | Assistant Professor | Molecular taxonomy, molecular ecology, relatedness, non-invasive and ancient DNA. |
![]() | J.E. ("Ed") de Steiguer | Professor | Natural resource policy, planning on public lands, integrated watershed planning, global change policy and carbon emissions trading. |
![]() | Tom DeGomez | Associate Extension Specialist | Forest ecology and management |
| Adrian X. Esparza | Associate Professor | Land economics, exurban land conversion, U.S.-Mexico border urbanization | |
![]() | Don Falk | Associate Professor | Fire history, fire ecology, dendroecology, and restoration ecology |
![]() | Jeffrey S. Fehmi | Assistant Professor | Rangeland inventory and monitoring, land reclamation, restoration ecology, vehicle impacts, invasive species, plant ecology |
| Peter F. Ffolliott | Professor | Snow hydrology, land and resource management, ecosystem management | |
| Randy Gimblett | Professor | Spatial dynamic ecosystem modeling, geographic information systems, agent based modeling, human cognition and environmental perception, landscape simulation, social systems and human behavior modeling, visitor management |











