Graduate Students
Augustus Guikema (he/him)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Political economy, water resources, and wildlife conservation in New Mexico
Hobbies: Hiking/backpacking, fly fishing, banjo, cooking | |
Bianca Camacho (she/her)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Water management, fire particulates, public health, redlining
Hobbies: Skiing, salsa, playing drums, hiking, iNaturalist | |
Carl Sanfilipo (he/him)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Wildlife ecology, remote sensing, digital heritage preservation
Hobbies: Travel, horsemanship, fencing
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![]() | Cameron Blumhardt (she/her/they/them)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Social and political factors driving development and land use change, Latin America, qualitative methods, remote sensing, methods integration into interdisciplinary research, critical physical geography
Hobbies: Backpacking, fishing, skiing/snowboarding, video games
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Cheryn Vigil (she/her)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Water systems, forest ecology, tribal lands, sports analytics
Hobbies: I enjoy watching sports, collecting stickers, drawing, and painting. As well as shopping, drinking matcha, and getting my nails done. | |
![]() | Cassidy Tawse-Garcia (she/they)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: Mutual Aid, collective care, diverse economies, local food economies, rural livelihoods, and community building in post-disaster landscapes
Hobbies: Writing, renting audio books from the Libby app, travel, gardening, remodeling my house, ice cream
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![]() | Chris SylvanMS ProgramResearch Interests: Black geographies, black feminist geographies, community policing, food systems, critical race studies, water use
Hobbies: Running, Cycling, Hiking, Saturdays at Coffee Shops, Being Wonky about Government Policy
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Davian Thompson (he/him)MS Program Research Interests: Hobbies:
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David Jacobs (he/him)MS Program Research Interests: Hobbies:
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![]() | David Lawrence (he/him)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: Historical geography of science, museum studies, paleontology
Hobbies: playing the guitar, reading science fiction and Sherlock Holmes mysteries
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![]() | Dayna Dominguez (she/her)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: Natural processes modeling (landscapes, soil hydrology, wind, ect.), remote sensing, applied GIS uses in emergency response management, epidemiology, and natural resource management
Hobbies: Spending time with my dogs, Search and Rescue, trail running, weight lifting, gardening, reading, backpacking, cooking/baking, and cross-country skiing |
Desiree Loggins (she/her)PhD Program Research Interests: Community-engaged mapping. Memory as a tool for self-determination under capitalism. The political ecology of land use, colonial infrastructure, and how historic, dominant, and community narratives interact with land and water policy/planning in the arid West. Hobbies: Finding high alpine lakes and wildflower blooms, gardening, hide-tanning, sewing, | |
![]() | Eric Brannen (he/him)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: Health disparities, breast cancer, survival analysis, cluster analysis, wildlife urban interface (WUI), urban sprawl
Hobbies: gaming, travel, cycling, exercise |
Erin Cassidy (she/her)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Cartography, climate change, GIS in archaeology, remote sensing
Hobbies: I love to travel, read, hike, and watch movies and F1! | |
Erin Elder (she/her)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: How creative research methods and expressions can explore the ways that people and places change one another. How to recognize overlooked, overworked, intermittent, and marginalized waterways. Changing landscapes created by data centers. Rights of nature.
Hobbies: Drawing, hiking, camping, travel, dogs, live music, dinner parties | |
Hayley Boyd (she/her)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Applied GIS in social/policy contexts, community and cultural geography, health and equity, human-environment interaction, hazards/disasters, and water resources
Hobbies: Dancing, skiing, scuba diving, exploring countries/cultures, volleyball, and spending quality time with my family, friends, and dogs <3 | |
Jacqueline Kelley-Cogdell (she/her)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Sustainable Food Systems & Incarceration
Hobbies: Ultimate Frisbee, Reading, Hiking, Beach Volleyball, Knitting | |
![]() | Joe Scala (he/him/they)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: Historical and contemporary wine production in the US/Mexico borderlands region; the political, economic and ecological dimensions of food traditions; the production of space
Hobbies: Enjoying food and wine, listening to music, being outdoors, community planning for Santa Fe County (really more of a job than a hobby though)
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Juna Keehn (she/her)MS ProgramResearch Interests:
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![]() | Katie Slack (they/them)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Climate Change adaptation, Nature-based solutions, geospatial data, web mapping, communicating science, political ecology, critical physical geography
Hobbies: spending time outdoors, fiber arts, watercolor, Dungeons and Dragons, hanging with my cats |
Lucy Malmud-Roam (she/her)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Agroecology and agrarian change, restoration ecology, botany, political ecology, historical ecology, climate adaptation, native plants, soil ecology, and Indigenous stewardship.
Hobbies: Running, walking dogs, hiking, camping, reading, gardening, travel. | |
![]() | Meirah Williamson (she/her)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: Natural hazards, disasters, vulnerability, critical cartography, spatial analysis
Hobbies: Cycling, hiking, playing piano, going to art/farmer's markets, watching roadrunners
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![]() | Miguel Martinez (he/him)MS Program Research Interests: Settlement pattern theory and landscape archaeology in Mesoamerica. Expanding my interests and experience in small UAV survey and its applications in Landscape Archaeology with a focus in settlement pattern theory.
Hobbies: Crafts and machines, fixing and making things
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Monico Lucero (he/him)MS Program Research Interests: Public lands and natural resource policy, cultural landscapes, land grants, Indigenous land issues, environmental change, and the ways communities respond and adapt to changing social and environmental conditions.
Hobbies: Hunting, gardening, camping and spending time outdoors, traveling, and spending time with my family. I also enjoy learning about New Mexico history, culture, and landscapes.
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![]() | Olivia Kelly (she/her)PhD Program Research Interests: Critical physical geography, legal geographies, fire ecology and management environmental justice, stream ecology, hydrogeochemistry
Hobbies: spending time with my daughter, hiking, swimming, reading, and just being outside.
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![]() | Rae French (they/them)MS ProgramResearch Interests: Political ecology, historic fermentation methodologies, autonomy and land stewardship, biopiracy and data sovereignty
Hobbies: Walking and talking, surfing the radio, cooking, midnight bike rides & midnight snacks, roughhousing with dogs
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![]() | Ramona Malczynski (she/her)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: urban geography, critical physical geography, political ecology, U.S. Southwest and Latin America
Hobbies: community organizing, soccer, art, being outdoors
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![]() | Roald KernMS ProgramResearch Interests: Spatial analysis, internet mapping, population response to events, remote sensing
Hobbies: Photography, Traveling, Swimming in Nature |
![]() | Saghi Sarafi (she/her)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: GIScience, geovisualization, web mapping, GeoAI
Hobbies: Rock climbing, Hiking, Walking
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Tyler Eshelman (he/him)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: GIScience and remote sensing, spatial database design and management, spatial analysis and modeling, geospatial big data, transportation geography, programming and application development.
Hobbies: Gaming, Cooking, Crochet, Travel
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![]() | Westin Guthrie (he/him)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: Ecological and urban change modeling, plant physiology, embolism recharge and drivers of loss of hydaulic conductivity in old sapwood, wildland-urban interface and wildfire relationships
Hobbies: Hiking/backpacking, Magic the Gathering, CK3, making jam
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![]() | William Tatman (he/him)PhD ProgramResearch Interests: Hobbies:
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