Rajan Ghimire, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Contact email: rghimire@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-985-2292
Expertise: Soil organic matter pools and dynamics, nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, C sequestration, soil health, sustainable crop production practices
Lara Prihodko, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: prihodko@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-6134
Expertise: Geospatial measurement and modeling of vegetation, disturbance and the carbon cycle in arid and semi-arid systems
Hatim M. E. Geli, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: hgeli@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-1640
Expertise: Hydrology, remote sensing, water resource management, drought monitoring and impact analysis
Niall Hanan, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: nhanan@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-3335
Expertise: Range ecology, remote sensing, ecosystem modeling, global change
John Idowu, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: jidowu@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-8085
Expertise: Soil health, soil tillage, crop production
Sangu Angadi, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: angadis@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-985-2292
Expertise: Stress physiology of crops, sustainable crop diversification, alternative cropping systems, ecosystem services, deficit irrigation, crop simulation modeling
Catherine (Catie) Brewer, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: cbrewer@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-8637
Expertise: Biofuels, wastewater treatment, alternative crops, soil quality, phytoremediation, environmental remediation, engineering education, brewing
Sam Smallidge, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: ssmallid@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-5944
Expertise: Rangeland ecology and management, domestic and wild herbivore ecology and management, riparian vegetation monitoring
Shad Cox
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: shadcox@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-849-1015
Expertise:
Bernhard Leinauer, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: leinauer@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-1715
Expertise: Irrigation, turf management, soil, water and soil tests
Marisa Thompson, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: risi@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 505-865-7340
Expertise: Urban horticulture, landscape ornamentals, xeriscaping, backyard fruits and vegetables, urban trees/forests, mitigating effects of climate change through sustainable planting, water-wise gardening, and supporting wildlife habitats
Owen Burney, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: oburney@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-387-2319
Expertise: forest nursery technologies, tree improvement, and ecophysiology of young forest trees to facilitate ecological restoration and/or commercial reforestation
Brian Hurd, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: bhurd@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-2674
Expertise: Natural and environmental resource economics; water resource policy and economics; vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
Kevin Lombard, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: klombard@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 505-960-7757
Expertise: Specialty horticultural crops, arid-land farming
Douglas Cram, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: dcram@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-8130
Expertise: Forestry, fire ecology, fire behavior, youth programs
Casey Spackman, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Contact email: spackman@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-646-3098
Expertise: Livestock grazing behavior, invasive annual grass control, poisonous plants, plant ecology and physiology, rangeland monitoring and revegetation efforts
Prakriti Bista
Research Scientist
Contact email: pbista@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-985-2292
Expertise: Measurement and modeling of soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, and water dynamics in agroecosystems
Atinderpal Singh
Postdoctoral Scholar and RCED fellow
Contact email: asingh@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-985-2292
Expertise: Soil health, soil water dynamics, measurement and modeling soil processes
Pramod Acharya
Postdoctoral Scholar
Contact email: acharyap@nmsu.edu
Phone (office): 575-985-2292
Expertise: Soil health, soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions
