TCD - Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate faculty are listed with their department, research interests, and regionla specializatoin. There are a few other faculty affiliated with TCD that are membersof departments that are not "official" TCD affiliate departments.


Affiliate Departments

Name

Research Interests

Regional Specialization

Agricultural Education and Communication

Nick Place

International extension systems, adult and extension education


Agronomy

Ken Boote

Photosynthesis, respiration, carbon and nitrogen metabolism, growth of crop plants in response to climate, carbon dioxide enrichment, drought, defoliating pests, and diseases




Ken Boote

Food legume improvement, educational methodologies


 

Alison Fox

Biology and management of invasive plants



Ken Quesenberry

Forage legume improvement

 

Johan Scholberg

Nutrient cycling and uptake by crops


Lynn Sollenberger

Interactions between forage plants and grazing livestock, the impact of grazed pasture, pasture management inputs on nutrient cycling in soils and on environmental quality



David Wofford

Breeding/genetic aspects of temperate forage species, particularly white clover, and tall fescue



Anthropology

H. Rusell Bernard

Linguistics, research methodology

Mexico

 

Steven Brandt

Archeology, food domestication

Africa

 

Allan Burns

Applied and visual anthropology, linguistics

Mexico, Guatemala, Europe, Oceania

 

Michael Heckenberger

Archeology

Amazonia, Brazil

 

Michael Moseley

Archeology, Andean complex civilizations

Andes

 

Gerald Murray

Agroforestry, land tenure systems, small farmer production systems

Caribbean, Latin America

 

Anthony Oliver-Smith

Displaced people, disasters

Andean South America

 

Marianne Schmink

Sustainable development, gender issues

Amazonia, Brazil, Caribbean, Latin America

 

Anita Spring

Gender, development

Africa and Caribbean

 

Richard Stepp

Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany

Mexico

Botany

Kaoru Kitajima

Tropical ecology, seed and seedling ecology, canopy leaf ecophysiology, functional ecology of invasive plant species



 

Michelle Mack

Impacts of plant species composition on ecosystem an dglobla processes



 

Stephen Mulkey

Tropical ecology, neotropical plants, physiological ecology, plant distribution, and abundance

General

 

Francis E. Putz

Forest ecology and management

Neotropics, Paleotropics

 

Ted Schurr

Terrestrial ecosystem dynamics


Center for Latin American Studies

Emilio Bruna

Conservation biology, plant-animal interactions, plant population dynanics

Brazil

 

Karen Kainer

Tropical forest ecology

Brazil

 

Richard Stepp

Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany

Mexico

 

Marianne Schmink

Sustainable development, gender issues

Amazonia, Brazil, Caribbean, Latin America

 

Charles Wood

Latin American Studies demography, sociology of development, population and the environment, comparative study of race and ethnicity

Brazil

Comparative Law

Tom Ankersen

International environmental law

Central America and Mexico

Food and Resources Economics

Clyde Kiker

Ecological and environmental economics

Caribbean

 

Sherry Larkin

Natural resource modeling, fisheries economics and management, seafood marketing

 

 

Donna Lee

Environmental policy, natural resource modeling, marine resource economics

 

Geography

Michael Binford

Geographic information systems and remote sensing applications in environmental systems, paleoecology, paleolimnology and paleoclimatology, land use and land cover change

South America

 

Abe Goldman

Sustainable agriculture

Africa

 

Eric Keys

Cultural and political ecology, human-environmental geography

Mesoamerica

 

Brian Child

Protected area management, political economy of conservation

Africa

 

Jane Southworth

Modeling the impacts of climate change on agricultural and forest ecosystems, remote sensing of land cover change, the implications of scale and scaling in remote sensing and modeling analyses

Central America

Geological Scienses

Mark Brenner

Limnology and paleolimnology, tropical an dsubtropical lakes and watersheds

Central America, Asia

Geological Scienses

Janaki Alavalapati

Forest/natural resource economics and policy analysis, forest products trade and environmental, agroforestry and rural development, regional socioeconomic analysis

Latin America

 

Grenville Barnes

Cadastral and registration systems, land tenure, surveying and mapping

GIS

 

Mary Duryea

Reforestation, extension methods

Brazil

 

Shibu Jose

Siviculture, ecophysiology

 

 

Martha Monroe

Environmental education, development and evaluation of programs

 

 

Karen Kainer

Tropical forest ecology

Brazil

 

P. K. Nair

Agroforestry

Africa, Asia, South America

 

Taylor Stein

Ecotourism, human dimensions of natural resource management

 

 

Daniel Zarin

Tropical forestry

Brazil, Central America

Schools of Natural Resources and Environment

Stephen Humphrey

Mammalian ecology

North and Central America

Plant Medicine

Robert McGovern

Integrated plant medicine

Caribbean

Political Science

Philip Williams

Comparative politics/Latin America, religion and politics, civil-military relations, social movements and democratization

Central America, Peru

Religion

David Hackett

Sociology of religion, American religious history

 

 

Ana Peterson

Christianity in Latin America, social, political, and environmental ethics

 

 

Bron Tylor

Religion and nature, environmental movements

 

 

Manuel Vasquez

Religion in Latin America, religion and postmodernity, religion among U.S. Latinos

 

Sociology

Steven Perz

Land use and land cover change, demography

Brazil

 

Charles Wood

Latin American Studies demography, sociology of development, population and the environment, comparative study of race and ethnicity

Brazil

Soil and Water Science

Nicholas Comerford

Forest soils, root/soil interactions, forest management activities effects on the environment

Brazil

 

Willie Harris

Soil mineralogy

 

 

Peter Kizza

Soil physics

 

 

Andy Ogram

Soil microbiology, adaptation of microbial communities to human impacts

 

 

Jerry Sartain

Soil fertility, turf grasses

 

Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management

Brijesh Thapa

Ecotourism, people/park conflicts, vistior issues

Nepal, USA

 

Stephen Holland

Natural resource management of recreation and tourism areas

 

 

Richard Makopondo

Planning, developing, and managing recreation and tourism

 

Urban and Regional Planning

Ilir Bejleri

GIS applications in planning, 3D urban visualization and urban design

 

 

Kristin Larsen

Housing policy, neighborhodd planning

 

 

Stanley Latimer

Planning applications of geographic information systems and global positioning systems

 

 

Rhonda Phillips

Technlogy-based economic development for communities and regions

 

 

Richard Schneider

Computer applications relative to crime prevention and planning

 

 

Ruth Steiner

Patterns of use and mode choice in traditional neighborhood shopping districts

 

 

Paul Zwick

Geographic information systems, computer applications and systems modeling

 

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Lyn Branch

Conservation biology

Sourthern Cone

 

Emilio Bruna

Conservation biology, plant-animal interactions, plant population dynamics

Brazil

 

Peter Frederick

Ecology and conservation of wetlands, particularily wetland vertebrates

 

 

Susan Jacobson

Natural resource education and communication

Latin America, Southeast Asia

 

Kathryn Sieving

Avian ecology and conservation

Chile

 

Melvin E. Sunquist

Mammalian ecology and behavior, felids, endangered species

Asia, Neotropics

 

George Tanner

Restoration ecology, tropical gasslands

Latin America

Women's Studies

Sandra Russo

Gender issues

 

Zoology

Karen Bjorndal

Biology of sea turtles, comparative nutritional ecology of herbivores

 

 

Alan Bolton

Biology of sea turtles

 

 

Robert Holt

Theoretical ecology

 

 

Douglas Levey

Behavioral ecology of fruit-eating birds

 

 

Todd Palmer

Tropical ecology, community ecology

East Africa

Non-Affiliate Departments

Name

Research Interests

Regional Specialization

School of Architecture

Martha Kohen

Architecture, urban planning

 

Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Michael Allen

Management of sportfishes in freshwater lakes and reservoirs

 

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