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.
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Research Interests |
Regional Specialization |
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| International extension systems, adult
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| Photosynthesis, respiration, carbon and nitrogen
metabolism, growth of crop plants in response to climate, carbon
dioxide enrichment, drought, defoliating pests, and diseases |
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Food legume improvement, educational methodologies |
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Biology and management of invasive plants |
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Forage legume improvement |
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Nutrient cycling and uptake by crops |
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Interactions between forage plants and grazing livestock, the
impact of grazed pasture, pasture management inputs on nutrient
cycling in soils and on environmental quality |
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Breeding/genetic aspects of temperate forage species, particularly
white clover, and tall fescue |
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| Linguistics, research methodology |
Mexico |
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Archeology, food domestication |
Africa |
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Applied and visual anthropology, linguistics |
Mexico, Guatemala, Europe, Oceania |
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Archeology |
Amazonia, Brazil |
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Archeology, Andean complex civilizations |
Andes |
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Agroforestry, land tenure systems, small farmer production
systems |
Caribbean, Latin America |
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Displaced people, disasters |
Andean South America |
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Sustainable development, gender issues |
Amazonia, Brazil, Caribbean, Latin
America |
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Gender, development |
Africa and Caribbean |
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Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany |
Mexico |
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| Tropical ecology, seed and seedling ecology, canopy leaf ecophysiology,
functional ecology of invasive plant species |
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Impacts of plant species composition on ecosystem an dglobla
processes |
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Tropical ecology, neotropical plants, physiological ecology, plant distribution, and abundance |
General |
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Forest ecology and management |
Neotropics, Paleotropics |
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Terrestrial ecosystem dynamics |
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| Conservation biology, plant-animal interactions, plant population dynanics |
Brazil |
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Tropical forest ecology |
Brazil |
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Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany |
Mexico |
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Sustainable development, gender issues |
Amazonia, Brazil, Caribbean, Latin America |
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Latin American Studies demography, sociology of development, population and the environment, comparative study of race and ethnicity |
Brazil |
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| International environmental law |
Central America and Mexico |
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| Ecological and environmental economics |
Caribbean |
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Natural resource modeling, fisheries economics and management, seafood marketing |
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Environmental policy, natural resource modeling, marine resource economics |
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| Geographic information systems and remote sensing applications in environmental systems, paleoecology, paleolimnology and paleoclimatology, land use and land cover change |
South America |
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Sustainable agriculture |
Africa |
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Cultural and political ecology, human-environmental geography |
Mesoamerica |
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Protected area management, political economy of conservation |
Africa |
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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 |
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| Limnology and paleolimnology, tropical an dsubtropical lakes and watersheds |
Central America, Asia |
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| Forest/natural resource economics and policy analysis, forest products trade and environmental, agroforestry and rural development, regional socioeconomic analysis |
Latin America |
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Cadastral and registration systems, land tenure, surveying and mapping |
GIS |
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Reforestation, extension methods |
Brazil |
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Siviculture, ecophysiology |
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Environmental education, development and evaluation of programs |
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Tropical forest ecology |
Brazil |
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Agroforestry |
Africa, Asia, South America |
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Ecotourism, human dimensions of natural resource management |
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Tropical forestry |
Brazil, Central America |
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| Mammalian ecology |
North and Central America |
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| Integrated plant medicine |
Caribbean |
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| Comparative politics/Latin America, religion and politics, civil-military relations, social movements and democratization |
Central America, Peru |
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| Sociology of religion, American religious history |
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Christianity in Latin America, social, political, and environmental ethics |
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Religion and nature, environmental movements |
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Religion in Latin America, religion and postmodernity, religion among U.S. Latinos |
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| Land use and land cover change, demography |
Brazil |
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Latin American Studies demography, sociology of development, population and the environment, comparative study of race and ethnicity |
Brazil |
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| Forest soils, root/soil interactions, forest management activities effects on the environment |
Brazil |
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Soil mineralogy |
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Soil physics |
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Soil microbiology, adaptation of microbial communities to human impacts |
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Soil fertility, turf grasses |
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| Ecotourism, people/park conflicts, vistior issues |
Nepal, USA |
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Natural resource management of recreation and tourism areas |
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Planning, developing, and managing recreation and tourism |
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| GIS applications in planning, 3D urban visualization and urban design |
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Housing policy, neighborhodd planning |
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Planning applications of geographic information systems and global positioning systems |
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Technlogy-based economic development for communities and regions |
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Computer applications relative to crime prevention and planning |
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Patterns of use and mode choice in traditional neighborhood shopping districts |
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Geographic information systems, computer applications and systems modeling |
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| Conservation biology |
Sourthern Cone |
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Conservation biology, plant-animal interactions, plant population dynamics |
Brazil |
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Ecology and conservation of wetlands, particularily wetland vertebrates |
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Natural resource education and communication |
Latin America, Southeast Asia |
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Avian ecology and conservation |
Chile |
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Mammalian ecology and behavior, felids, endangered species |
Asia, Neotropics |
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Restoration ecology, tropical gasslands |
Latin America |
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| Gender issues |
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| Biology of sea turtles, comparative nutritional ecology of herbivores |
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Biology of sea turtles |
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Theoretical ecology |
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Behavioral ecology of fruit-eating birds |
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Tropical ecology, community ecology |
East Africa |
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Research Interests |
Regional Specialization |
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| Architecture, urban planning |
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| Management of sportfishes in freshwater lakes and reservoirs |
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