Graduate Students

 Augustus Guikema (he/him)

  MS Program

 Research Interests: Political economy, water resources, and wildlife conservation in New Mexico

 

 Hobbies: Hiking/backpacking, fly fishing, banjo, cooking

 Bianca Camacho (she/her)

   MS Program

 Research Interests: Water management, fire particulates, public health, redlining

 

 Hobbies: Skiing, salsa, playing drums, hiking, iNaturalist

 Carl Sanfilipo (he/him)

   MS Program

 Research Interests: Wildlife ecology, remote sensing, digital heritage preservation

 

 Hobbies: Travel, horsemanship, fencing

 

 Cameron Blumhardt (she/her/they/them)

   MS Program

 Research 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

 

 Cheryn Vigil (she/her)

   MS Program

 Research 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.



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 Cassidy Tawse-Garcia (she/they)

   PhD Program

 Research 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

 

 Chris Sylvan

   MS Program

 Research 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

 

 Davian Thompson (he/him)

   MS Program

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 David Jacobs (he/him)

   MS Program

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 David Lawrence (he/him)

   PhD Program

 Research Interests: Historical geography of science, museum studies, paleontology

 

 Hobbies: playing the guitar, reading science fiction and Sherlock Holmes mysteries

 

 Dayna Dominguez (she/her)

   PhD Program

 Research 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,
making playlists and organizing picnics

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 Eric Brannen (he/him)

   PhD Program

 Research 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 Program

 Research 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 Program

 Research 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 Program

 Research 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 Program

 Research Interests: Sustainable Food Systems & Incarceration

 

 Hobbies: Ultimate Frisbee, Reading, Hiking, Beach Volleyball, Knitting 

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 Joe Scala (he/him/they)

   PhD Program

 Research 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)

 

 Juna Keehn (she/her)

   MS Program

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 Katie Slack (they/them)

   MS Program

 Research 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 Program

 Research 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.

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 Meirah Williamson (she/her)

   PhD Program

 Research 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

 

 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 Program

 Research 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 Program

 Research Interests: urban geography, critical physical geography, political ecology, U.S. Southwest and Latin America

 

 Hobbies: community organizing, soccer, art, being outdoors

 

 Roald Kern

  MS Program

 Research Interests: Spatial analysis, internet mapping, population response to events, remote sensing

 

 Hobbies: Photography, Traveling, Swimming in Nature

 Saghi Sarafi (she/her)

   PhD Program

 Research Interests: GIScience, geovisualization, web mapping, GeoAI

 

 Hobbies: Rock climbing, Hiking, Walking

 

 Tyler Eshelman (he/him)

   PhD Program

 Research 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

 

 Westin Guthrie (he/him)

   PhD Program

 Research 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 Program

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