Faculty Departments and Programs

Agricultural, Education, Communication and Technology

Dr. Jefferson Miller (PhD, Oklahoma State U), Agricultural Communications

Agricutural Economics and Agribusiness

Dr. Lawson Connor, (PhD, North Carolina State U - Raleigh), Farm Policy, Conservation and Systainable Technology Adoption in Farming, Farm Financial and PRoduction Resilience
Dr. Qiuqiong Huang, (PhD, U California - Davis), Water Resource Management, Impacts of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills on Labor Market Outcomes
Dr. Trey Malone, (PhD, Oklahoma State U), Agricultural Economist, Agri-Entrepeneurship and Public Policy Impacts on Agri-Food Supply Chains
Dr. Lawton Lanier Nalley, (PhD, Kansas State U), Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness
Dr. Jennie Popp, (PhD, Colorado State U), Water Quality, Sustainable Resource Management
Dr. Michael P. Popp, (PhD, Colorado State U), Farm and Agribusiness Management, Alternative Production Practices

Anthropology

Dr. Jo Ann D'Alisera, (PhD, University of Illinois), West Africa, Religion, Transnational Communities and Identities
Dr. Lucas Delezene, (PhD, Arizona State U), Evolution of Primate Dentition
Dr. Elizabeth T. Horton, (PhD, Washington U - Saint Louis), Ethnoarchaeology, Archaeobotany
Dr. Jami J. Lockhart, (PhD, U Arkansas - Fayetteville), Information Technology and Services, Archaeological Geophysics
Dr. Julie Morrow, (PhD, Washington U), Paleoindian and Mississippian Archaeology
Dr. J. Michael Plavcan, (PhD, Duke U), Biological Anthropology, Research Methods, and Evolutionary Ecology
Dr. Wesley D. Stoner, (PhD, U Kentucky), Development of Human Societies, Mesoamerica
Dr. Claire E. Terhune, (PhD, Arizona State U), Evolution and Function of Hominin Skull Shape, Hominin Migration Patterns during Early Pleistocene
Dr. Mary Beth D. Trubitt, (PhD, Northwestern U), Eastern Native American Societies Technologies
Dr. Peter S. Ungar, (PhD, SUNY Stony Brook), Director ENDY Program, Biological Anthropology, Human Origins, Primate Evolution, Dental Anthropology, Computer Imaging, Anatomy
Dr. Benjamin Vining, (PhD, Boston U), Environmental Archaeology, Anthropogentic Ecology Networks
Dr. Amelia Villasenor, (PhD, George Washington U), Hominin in Turkana Basin, Kenya, Piestocene Megafauna Extinction in North America

Architecture

Dr. Tahar Messadi, (PhD, U Michigan), Integration of Sustainable Environmental Technology into Design Process

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Dr. Brian Haggard, (PhD, Oklahoma State U), Water Quality, Stream Ecology, Nutrient Dynamics
Dr. Benjamin R. Runkle, (PhD, U California - Berkeley), Sustainability and Resilience - Agro-Ecosystems

Biological Sciences

Dr. Steven Beaupre, (PhD, U Pennsylvannia), Terrestrial Vertebrate Ectotherms
Dr. Brett DeGregoio, (PhD, U Illinois, Anthropogenic Impacts, Behavioral Ecology, Wetland Ecology, Urban Ecology
Dr. Kristian Forbes, (PhD, U Jyväskylä, Finland), Infectious Disease Ecology
Dr. Daniel D. Magoulick, (PhD, U Pittsburgh), Population and Community Dynamics of Freshwater Fish and Invertebrates
Dr. Kusum Naithani, (PhD, U Wyoming), Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology, Ecohydrology, Plant Ecophysiology, Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Spatio-Temporal Modeling, Bayesian Statistics
Dr. Douglas D. Rhoads, (PhD, Kansas State U), Molecular Genetics and Genomics in Eukaryotes-modes of Gene Regulation, Structure and Evolution
Dr. J.D. Willson, (PhD, U Georgia), Ecology, Understanding Anthropomorphic Stresses on Reptile and Amphibian Populations and Communities

Chemical Engineering

Dr. Ranil Wickramasinghe (PhD, U Minnesota), Membrane Science and Technology

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Vincent Chevrier (PhD, C.E.R.E.G.E in Aix-en-Provence, France) Surface Processes on Mars and Icy Bodies
Dr. Ryan Tian, (PhD, U Connecticut), Hierarchical and Ordered Nanostructures for Catalytic, Sensing , and Biomaterial Applications

Civil Engineering

Dr. Julian Fairey, (PhD, U Texas - Austin), Surface and Colloid Chemistry, focusing on Contaminant Sediments and Drinking Water Treatment
Dr. Micah Hale, (PhD, U Oklahoma), High Performance Concrete, Self-Consolidating Concrete
Dr. Wen Zhang, (PhD, Purdue U), Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology, Wastewater Treatment, Biofilm Physiology

Crop, Soils and Environmental Sciences

Dr. Kristofer R. Brye, (PhD, U Wisconsin – Madison) Ground Water Contamination, Sustainable Agriculture, Ecosystem Evaluation and Characterization
Dr. David M. Miller, (PhD, U Georgia), Soil Chemistry, Adsorption of Clay Minerals
Dr. Mary C. Savin, (PhD, U Rhode Island), microbial ecology
Dr. Shannon L. Speir, (PhD, U Notre Dame), Biochemistry of Streams and Rivers, Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quality, Nitrogen Cycling High Frequency Sensors

Entomology and Plant Pathology

Dr. Burt Bluhm, (PhD, Purdue U), Molecular Plant Pathology
Dr. Neelendra Joshi, (PhD, Penn State U), Ecologically-based Pest Management, Pollinator Health, Insect Biodiversity, Agriculture and Food Security
Dr. Rupesh Kariyat, (PhD, Penn State U), Sustainable Agriculture, Crop Entomology and Chemical Ecology

Geosciences

Dr. Mohamed Aly, (PhD, Texas A&M U), InSAR, GPS, GIS, Crustal Deformation Modeling, Geohazard Assesment
Dr. Kevin Befus, (PhD, U Texas-Austin ), Hydrology
Dr. Stephen K. Boss, (PhD, U North Carolina), Geophysics, Marine Geology, Limnology, Earth Systems
Dr. J. Van Brahana, (PhD, U Missouri), Physical Hydrogeology, Groundwater Flow, Karst Hydrogeology
Dr. Linyin Cheng, (PhD, U of California - Irvine), Climate Change, Dynamic Drivers of Weather and Climate Extreme Events
Dr. Jack Cothren, (PhD, Ohio State U), Digital Photogrammetry, GPS Geodesy, Spatial Statistics
Dr. Matt Covington, (PhD, U California - Santa Cruz), Hydrogeology, Geomorphology, Fluid Modeling
Dr. Fiona M. Davidson, (PhD, U Nebraska), Cultural and Human Geography, European Politics, E.U.
Dr. Katia de Avila Fernades, (PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology), Climate Variability and Change
Dr. Greg Dumond, (PhD, U Massachusetts - Amherst), General Geology, Structural Geology, Tectonics
Dr. Song Feng, (PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Atmospheric Physics, Climate Modeling
Dr. W. Reed Green, (PhD, U Arkansas), Real-Time Lake and Reservoir Quality Monitoring
Dr. Phillip D. Hays, (PhD, Texas A &M), Isotope Geochemistry, Hydrology
Dr. Edward C. Holland, (PhD, U Colorado - Boulder), Political Geography, Cultural Geography, Russia and the former Soviet Union
Dr. Xiao Huang, (PhD, U South Crolina), Geo AI, GIS and Remote Sensing in Natural Hazards, Big Data Mining
Dr. W. Fred Limp, (PhD, Indiana U), Geoinfomatics, GIS
Dr. Christopher Liner, (PhD, Colorado School of Mines), Maurice Storm Endowed Chair, Geophysics
Dr. Walter L. Manger, (PhD, U Iowa - Iowa City), Stratigraphy, Sequence Stratigraphy
Dr. Jill Marshall, (Ph.D., U Oregon), Geomorphologist, Critical Zone Scientist
Dr. Thomas R. Paradise, (PhD, Arizona State U), Geomorphology, Rock Weathering in Arid Environments, Natural Hazards and Risk, Architectural Deterioration and Historic Preservation (CRM)
Dr. Brad Peter, (PhD, Michigan State U), Remote Sensing of Agriculture, Environmental Sustainability, Digital Cartography
Dr. Adriana Potra, (PhD, Florida International U), Economic Ore Geology, Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry
Dr. John Shaw, (PhD, U Texas - Austin), Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
Dr. David W. Stahle, (PhD, Arizona State U), Dendrochronology, Paleoclimatology, Ancient Forests, Global Change
Dr. Celina A. Suarez, (PhD, U Kansas), Paleontology, Stable Isotope geochemistry
Dr. Jason A. Tullis, (PhD, U South Carolina), Remote Sensing, GIS, Decision Trees, Biogeography
Dr. Henry Turner III, (PhD, U Arkansas), Geodesy

History

Dr. Elliott West, (PhD, U Colorado), History of American West and American Indian

Human Enviornmental Sciences

Dr. Jacquelyn Mosley, (PhD, Texas Tech U - Lubbock), Cultural Competence

Horticulture

Dr. Curt Rom, (PhD, Ohio State U), Farm Production for Local Markets, Sustainable and Organic Production of Fruit Crops

Landscape Architecture

Kenneth McCown, (MS U Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), Landscape Architecture and architecture, Sustainable Development

Law

JD. Sara Rollet Gosman, (JD, Harvard), Environmental and Energy Law

Mathematical Sciences

Dr. John R. Tipton, (PhD, Colorado State University ), Bayesian Statistics, Environment and Climate Change Statistics, Spatio-Temporal Statistics

Political Science

Dr. Geeboo Song, (PhD, U Oklahoma), Public Policy, Political Science Sciences, Culture and Perceptions of Public Policy

Resiliency Center

Dr. Marty D. Matlock, (PhD, Oklahoma State U), Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecological Engineering and Design

Sociology and Criminology

Dr. Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, (PhD, State University of New York at Albany), Community and Family Issues