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
Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Professor and Director of Research Data Services, UNM 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

Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Department of Geography, New Mexico State University

Email: brownchr@nmsu.edu

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

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Michaela Buenemann

Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Geography, New Mexico State University

Email: elabuen@nmsu.edu

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

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Natali Cáceres-Arteaga, PhD 

Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
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 of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Professor: 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

Tomasz Falkowski
Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Assistant Professor: Honors College
Email: tbfalkowski@unm.edu
Web: https://honors.unm.edu/tomasz-falkowski
Expertise: Ecological restoration, agroecology, socioecological systems, traditional ecological knowledge, tropical agroforestry, biochar

Fred Gibbs
Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Associate Professor: UNM Department of History; Associate Dean for Curriculum, UNM College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History
Email: fwgibbs@unm.edu
Web: http://fredgibbs.net
Expertise: interactive mapping + urban ecologies, historical GIS, food systems, public health

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Silas Grant

Assistant Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Campaigner, Climate Law Institute; Center of Biological Diversity
Email: soagrant@unm.edu

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Sarah Hurteau

Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Principle Ecologist, Integrated Biological Solutions, LLC
Email: sarah@ibis-llc.com

LinkedIn: Sarah Hurteau - Principle Ecologist - Integrated Biological Solutions

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Emily Jones
Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Professor and Director of Zooarchaeology Lab, UNM Department of Anthropology
email: elj@unm.edu

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Kathleen Kambic

Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Associate Professor, UNM School of Architecture + Planning

email: kambic@unm.edu

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

Elizabeth Keller

Elizabeth Kistin Keller
Strategic Futures, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Adjunct Assistant Professor: Geography
Email: ejkk@lanl.gov
Expertise: institutional resilience, transboundary conflict and
cooperation, climate-water-energy-food nexus

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Eric Magrane

Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Department of Geography, New Mexico State University

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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Milford Muskett

Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Department Chair, Advanced Technology (STEM), Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute

email: milford.muskett@bie.edu

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Martina Nebbiai MSc., PhD.

Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
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
Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
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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Jami Nuñez

Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Associate Professor and Chairperson, UNM Department of Political Science

email: jaminunez@unm.edu

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
Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Associate Professor, UNM School of Architecture + Planning
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

Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Spatial Ecologist at US Fish and Wildlife Service

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

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Asa Stone

Assistant Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Email: asastone@unm.edu

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

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Jennifer Tucker

  • Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
    Associate Professor, UNM School of Architecture + Planning

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

Jacqueline Waite

Associate Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title
Bureau Chief of 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

Assistant Professor of Geography via Letter of Academic Title

Associate Director, Earth Data Analysis Center

Research Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Email: suzhang@unm.edu

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