Julia Warren
Julia Warren is a PhD student in Dr. Ted Schuur’s Lab. She is interested in understanding how a warming Arctic is impacting the global carbon cycle. Specifically, she will be looking at methane emissions from permafrost thaw and associated radiocarbon dating of greenhouse gases. She hopes to gain a deeper Read more…
Bruce Hungate
Research Interests Hungate’s research focuses on the ecology and management of global change, and microbial ecology from humans to the globe. His research occurs in grasslands, woodlands, forests, and rivers. He uses experiments, models, and data syntheses to understand how ecosystems respond to global change. He co-founded the Professional Science Read more…
Matthew Bowker
Bowker has broad interests within ecosystem science. He is both a plant and soil ecologist, and works in applied and fundamental science settings, in many ecosystem and community types including forests, rangelands and deserts. His research has spanned multiple levels of organization – organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, landscapes – and Read more…
Javier A. Ceja-Navarro
Navarro’s research focuses on the complexity of the host-associated and environmental microbiome, including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists. In his research, Navarro studies the composition of microbial communities, their dynamics in a changing environment, and how microbial activity influences nutrient cycling. The complexity of such studies requires the use Read more…
George Koch
Research Interests Koch’s research focuses on understanding the biophysical and ecological interactions of plants with their environments, including features affected by human-driven global change. He has worked in a variety of terrestrial ecosystems ranging from tropical and temperate rainforests to deserts. Much of his research explores the interaction of water Read more…
Yiqi Luo
Research Interests Yiqi Luo conducts research mainly in areas of ecosystem ecology, global change biology, biogeochemistry, ecological modeling, and Earth system science. He has conducted or been involved in various global change experiments in grasslands, forests, deserts, and wetlands. His lab is among the first for development and applications of data assimilation to Read more…
Michelle Mack
Research Interests As global temperatures increase, fragile ecosystems across the world are facing drastic changes, such as more extreme forest fires and increasingly severe droughts. Dr. Michelle Mack, a professor at NAU’s Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) and a recognized leader in plant and ecosystem ecology, is researching Read more…
Jane Marks
Research/teaching interests studies of how abiotic and biotic factors structure freshwater food webs anthropogenic disturbances of watershed nutrient loading alterations of flow regimes upon river food webs
Andrew Richardson
Research Interests Professor Richardson is an ecologist whose research addresses the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems, and the feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere and climate system. Richardson’s research focuses on (1) the exchanges of carbon, water, and energy between the land surface and the atmosphere; (2) Read more…