Affiliate Faculty

Craig Allen
Adjunct Professor

Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Jemez Mountains Field Station
Email: craig_allen@usgs.gov           
Web: http://www.fort.usgs.gov/CAllen/     
Expertise: forest ecology and dynamics, place-based science

Karl Benedict
Associate Professor: CULLS; Dir of Research Data Services: CULLS; Associate Professor
College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences
Email: kbene@unm.edu
Web: http://libguides.unm.edu/prf.php?account_id=27152
Expertise: information architecture, spatial data management 

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Christopher Brown

Associate Professor: Department of Geography, NMSU

Email: brownchr@nmsu.edu

Expertise: US-Mexico border environmental and water research, GIS, comparative environmental analysis

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Michaela Buenemann

Associate Professor: Department of Geography, NMSU

Email: elabuen@nmsu.edu

Expertise: Remote sensing, GIS, land change science, landscape ecology, drylands

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Natali Cáceres-Arteaga, PhD 

Professor: Department of Agricultural Science, Gender Equality and Rights Research Institute, Central University of Ecuador.   

Email: dncaceres@uce.edu.ec 

Expertise: climate change, intersectionality, sustainability, human geography and feminist political ecology.  

David Correia
Associate Professor: American Studies Department; Associate Professor: Geography

Department of American Studies
Email: dcorreia@unm.edu
Web: http://www.unm.edu/~dcorreia
Expertise: environmental politics, law and violence, critical human geography, New Mexico and the U.S. Southwest

Fred Gibbs
Assistant Professor: History Department; Assistant Professor: Geography
Department of History
Email: fwgibbs@unm.edu
Web: http://fredgibbs.net/about/
Expertise: interactive mapping + urban ecologies, historical GIS, food systems, public health

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Sarah Hurteau

Urban Conservation Director at The Nature Conservancy, New Mexico

Linkedin: Sarah Hurteau - Urban Conservation Director - The Nature Conservancy | LinkedIn

Anne Jakle

Anne Jakle
Assoc Dir,NM EPSCOR: VPRED EPSCOR Administrative; Adjunct Assistant Professor: Geography

Associate Director, New Mexico EPSCoR
Email: ajakle@epscor.unm.edu 
Web: http://www.nmepscor.org/
Expertise: energy and enviornmental policy, renewable energy, natural resources management

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Kathleen Kambic

Assistant Professor: School of Architecture + Planning

email: kambic@unm.edu

Expertise: water infrastructure, political, ecology, urbanism, landscape theory

Elizabeth Keller

Elizabeth Kistin Keller
Systems Analysis, Sandia National Laboratories; Adjunct Assistant Professor: Geography
Email: ejkisti@sandia.gov
Expertise: institutional resilience, transboundary conflict and
cooperation, water-energy-food nexus

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Eric Magrane

Assistant Professor: Department of Geography, NMSU

email: magrane@nmsu.edu

Expertise: Cultural geography and creativity, human-environment geography, climate & culture, the Anthropocene, geopoetics, art & environment, environmental humanities, political ecology, critical methodologies

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Martina Nebbiai MSc., PhD.

Tenured Professor at Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE), and the Coordinator of the Sustainable Water Management and Irrigation PhD Program (UCE)

email: mnebbiaimangani@unm.edu

alt: mnebbiai@uce.edu.ec

Expertise: Multidisciplinary approaches that combine water policy analysis, and community and regional planning.

Frank Norris
Historian, National Park Service
Email: frank_norris@nps.gov
Web: www.nps.gov/ntir
Expertise: parks and protected areas, western history, national trails, Alaska

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joni palmer

Visiting Assistant Professor: School of Architecture + Planning

Email: palmerjonim@unm.edu

Expertise: arts and cultural planning, landscape studies, public arts and placemaking, reading and writing landscapes, fieldbooks, vernacular creativities

William Pockman
Professor: AS Biology General Administrative; Chairperson: AS Biology General Administrative; Associate Professor: Geography
Email: pockman@unm.edu
Web: http://www.unm.edu/~pockman/
Expertise: ecosystem ecology, plant distributions, climate change response

Caroline Scruggs
Assistant Professor: SAAP Commty Regional Planning Prg; Assistant Professor: Geography
Email: cscruggs@unm.edu
Web: http://saap.unm.edu/resource-center/sap-people/faculty-profiles/caroline-scruggs.html
Expertise: environmental policy, public health, sustainable development

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Steve Sesnie

Spatial Ecologist at US Fish and Wildlife Service

Linkedin: Sesnie Steven - Spatial Ecologist - US Fish and Wildlife Service | LinkedIn

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Melanie A. Stansbury

Senior Advisor and Consultant
Utton Transboundary Resources Center, UNM School of Law
Email: melaniestansbury@yahoo.com
Expertise: Science, natural resources, and community development policy and governance

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 Asa Stone

Research Assistant Professor, Affiliate, UNM Resilience Institute
Ph.D., Washington State University

Email: asastone@unm.edu

Expertise: intersection of climate and social justice, human resilience to climate change, intersections of beer, social identity, and cultural heritage

Mark Stone
Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering
Email: stone@unm.edu
Web: http://www.unm.edu/~stone/
Expertise: environmental flows, fluvial geomorphology, ecosystem services

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Jennifer Tucker

  • Assistant Professor, Community + Regional Planning

  • Email: jennifertucker@unm.edu
  • Expertise: economic justice, social movements, the social production of space, anti-racist pedagogy
Jacqueline Waite

Jacqueline Waite

Clean Energy Program Manager at Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department of New Mexico

Linkedin: Jacqueline L. Waite - Clean Energy Program Manager - Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department of New Mexico | LinkedIn
Expertise: energy and society, land use, electric grid modernization, GIS, geography education/geography curriculum and alignment with workforce needs

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Su Zhang

Associate Director, Earth Data Analysis Center

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering

Email: suzhang@unm.edu

Expertise: GIS, Remote Sensing, UAS, Cartography, Geovisualization, and Construction Management