For more information:

Katie Hirschboeck, Chair
katie@ltrr.arizona.edu

Current Students

Students

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Toby R. Ault

Major: Geosciences
Email: tault@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: 

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Ukm Shawkat Ara Begum

Major: Anthropology
Email: shawkat@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Sea level rise and livelihood adaptation in the southwest region of Bangladesh

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Stephen W. Bieda III

Major: Atmspheric Sciences
Email: bieda@atmo.arizona.edu
Research Interests: The North American Monsoon system and interannual predictability

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Nathan T. Brooks-English

Major: Geosciences
Email: nenglish@ag.arizona.edu
Research Interests: 

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April Chiriboga

Major: Geosciences
Email: aprilc@geo.arizona.edu
Research Interests: The response of trees to global change and the potential effect on the global carbon budget

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Jessica Conroy

Major: Geosciences
Email: jconroy@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Paleoclimatology - Asian monsoon and ENSO

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Adam Z. Csank

Major: Geosciences
Email: csank@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry on tree-rings of fossil wood to reconstruct paleoclimate

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Lissette De La Cruz

Major: Hydrology
Email: ldelacru@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Contribution of summer and winter precipitation and groundwater in baseflow of 3 rivers

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Eleonora M. Demaria

Major: Hydrology and Water Resources
Email: edemaria@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Land-surface hydrological process, hydrologic prediction in ungaged basins, and remote sensing

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Jason P. Field

Major: Watershed Management
Email: jpfield@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Ecological-hydrological interactions (ecohydrology), vegetation dynamics, wind and water erosion, and contaminant transport

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Rebecca S. Franklin

Major: Geosciences
Email: rebecca@ltrr.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Recent glacial fluctuations along the American Cordillera, herbchronology, primary succession on glacial forefields, and climate change

Andy D. Hale

Major: Arid Lands Resource Sciences
Email: ahale@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Agricultural response to changes in water prices and global change on regional water availability

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Christine L. Hallman

Major: Geography
Email: hallman@ltrr.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Potential effects of climate change on the phenology and treeline of bristlecone pines

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Katherine A. Heckman

Major: Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences
Email: kheckman@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Pedology

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Catherine M. Hulshof

Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Email: hulshof@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Species coexistence in tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate plant communities

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Christine A. Lamanna

Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Email: clamanna@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Ecosystem/climate feedback

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Robin A. Lewis

Major: Geography
Email: ralewis@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Sustainable forest management; forest certification, politics of knowledge, creation and maintenance of scientific expertise, and Southeast Asia

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Stephanie A. McAfee

Major: Geosciences
Email: smcafee@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Spatial patterns of climate change impacts on ecosystems

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Nicholas McKay

Major: Geosciences
Email: nick.mckay2@gmail.com
Research Interests: Paleoclimatology

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Lezlie C. Moriniere

Major: Arid Lands Resource Sciences
Email: lezlie@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Climate change, natural hazards, extreme events and human displacement/migration using global databases, expert opinion, and remote sensing

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Neil D. Prendergast

Major: History
Email: nprender@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: U.S. environmental history

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Jennifer Pullen

Major: Arid Lands Resource Sciences
Email: jkanipe@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Law and economics in arid regions. Sustainability of water resources.

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Jennifer L. Rice

Major: Geography
Email: jlrice@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: U.S. global change policy

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Scott St. George

Major: Geosciences
Email: sstgeorg@nrcan.gc.ca
Research Interests: Hydroclimatic analysis of drought in Canada using tree rings

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Nathan Swenson

Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Email: swenson@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Tropical forest community ecology, evolution of plant form and functio, estimation of above ground biomass, and GIS-based predictive niche modeling

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Joost Van Haren

Major: Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences
Email: jvanhare@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Plant-soil-atmosphere interaction

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Juan C. Villegas

Major: Watershed Management
Email: villegas@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Ecohydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, surface hydrology, tropical/temperate ecohydrology

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Erika K. Wise

Major: Geography
Email: ekwise@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Climatology, dendrochronology, and spatial analysis