Adapting to Climate Variability

Ram Acharya

♦ Ram N Acharya | Associate Professor | acharyar@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Farm production risk and profitability, valuation of ecosystem services, food safety and security, marketing of farm and value added products, and sustainability

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply
sanga angadi

♦ Sangu Angadi | Professor | angadis@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Stress Physiology of Crops, Sustainable Crop Diversification, Alternative Cropping Systems, Ecosystem Services, Deficit Irrigation, Crop Simulation Modeling

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Sustainable Water Systems
boeing

♦ Wiebke Boeing | Professor | wboeing@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Aquatic Ecology (every trophic level from bacteria to fish); algae cultivation

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
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♦ James W. Cain | Professor and Department Head

Expertise:
Large mammal ecology, Wildlife Ecology, Wildlife-habitat Relationships, Population Ecology
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
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♦ Colleen Caldwell | Unit Leader

Expertise:
Applied ecology of large mammal, game bird, and fisheries populations

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Carroll

♦ Kenneth "KC" Carroll | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Akasha Faist | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Rangeland Ecology; Restoration Ecology; Plant Ecology,

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Soil Health
flynn

♦ Robert Flynn | Associate Professor Agronomy and Soils / Superintendent | rflynn@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Soil testing and interpretations, soil health, water management, crop production, management of salinity, and sodicity, crop response to the environment.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Jennifer Frey | Professor

Expertise:
Wildlife damage management, wildlife habitat relations, climate, water
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Wildlife damage management
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Hatim Geli

♦ Hatim M. E. Geli | Assistant Professor of Landscape Hydrology | hgeli@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Hydrology, Remote sensing, Water resource management, Drought monitoring and impact analysis

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food Security
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
ghimire

♦ Rajan Ghimire | Assistant Professor | rghimire@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Soil organic matter pools and dynamics, nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, C sequestration, soil health, sustainable crop production practices

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
giese

♦ Gill Giese| Extension Viticulture Specialist | ggiese@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Viticulture, enology, grape and wine compositional quality, cover crops and soil health, nematodes and other biotic factors that impact grape and wine compositional quality, water use and irrigation efficiency

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ Matthew Gompper | Professor and Department Head

Expertise:
Wildlife management, human-wildlife conflict, disease ecology, pathogen spillover, ecology of free ranging domestic animals
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
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♦ Kulbhushan Grover | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Sustainable Crop Production, Alternative Crops, Crop Rotation, Cover Crops
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Ivette Guzman | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Plant Physiology, Nutraceutical and Medicinal Plants

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
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♦ Niall Hanan | Professor and Extension Specialist | nhanan@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Range ecology; remote sensing;
ecosystem modeling; global change

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Heerema

♦ Richard Heerema | Extension Pecan Specialist | rjheerem@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Horticulture, tree fruit and nut production systems, environmental stress physiology of orchard trees, irrigation and water relations of pecan, pecan orchard light management, flowering and alternate bearing of pecan and pistachio.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Rolston St. Hilaire

♦ Rolston St. Hilaire
Professor and Department Head | rsthilai@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Environmental Stress Physiology

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Security
lauriault

♦ Leonard Lauriault | College Professor - Forage Crop Management Scientist | lmlaur@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Forage Crops

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Olga Lavrova | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Power electronics; Semiconductor device physics; Solar cell and PV and wind system design; Reliability and lifetime studies; Resiliency of infrastructure; Hardware in the Loop simulation; Power systems: stability and transients; Electric grid modernization and integration with renewables; Novel power electronics and power conversion devices; Electric vehicles (drives), charging power electronics, V2G and charging infrastructure; Pulsed power applications; Machine learning for a variety of areas; Cybersecurity applications.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Smart Grid, Renewable Energy, Solar PV and Wind systems
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Erik A. Lehnhoff | Assistant Professor of Weed Ecology and Management

Expertise:
Agroecology; Integrated Weed Management; Weed Ecology; Invasive Weeds

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
miller

♦ Maryfrances (Frannie) Miller | Associate Professor | franniem@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Agricultural policy, research in animal disease and traceability

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Safety
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
prihodko

♦ Lara Prihodko | College Associate Professor | prihodko@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Geospatial measurement and modeling of vegetation, Biophysical remote sensing, Ecology, Land surface-atmosphere interactions, Arid and Semi-arid systems

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
Regmi

♦ Madhav Regmi | Assistant Professor | mregmi@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Agricultural finance, risk management, production economics and agricultural policy

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
Luis Sabillon

♦ Luis Sabillon Galeas | Extension Livestock Specialist

Expertise:
Food Safety Microbiology, Molds and Mycotoxins, Post-harvest storage and processing of cereal grains, Processing of wheat-based products

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Bioprocessing
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Sustainable Water Systems
sallanave

♦ Rossana Sallenave| Extension Aquatic Ecology Specialist| rsallena@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Aquatic Ecology, Watershed stewardship, Water quality, Aquatic Toxicology, Aquaponics

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Aquaponics as a sustainable food production system
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Security
  • Sustainable Water Systems
shutte

♦ Brian Schutte | Associate Professor | bschutte@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
sims

♦ Gerald K. Sims | Professor and Department Head | gksims@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Environmental microbiology,
soil microbiology, microbial ecology,
pesticide fate.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
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♦ Jennifer J. Randall | Professor; Director of Molecular Biology Graduate Program

Expertise:
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant-microbe interactions

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
Thompson

♦ Marisa Y. Thompson, PhD | NMSU Extension Horticulture Specialist | risi@nmsu.edu

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

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Torell

♦ Greg Torell | Assistant Professor | gtorell@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Resource and environmental economics, rangeland economics, water economics, energy economics, and applied microeconomics
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Walker

♦ Stephanie J. Walker | Extension Vegetable Specialist | swalker@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Chile pepper processing, variety selection and mechanization. Sustainable vegetable production techniques including season extension, irrigation efficiency, crop rotation, companion planting, and cover crops. Vegetable breeding and seed saving.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Soil Health
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
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♦ Marcy Ward | Extension Livestock Specialist

Expertise:
Beef cattle nutrition, health, reproduction, and management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
zhang

♦ Jinfa Zhang | Professor | jinzhang@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Cotton breeding, Genetics, Genomics, Development of drought and salt-tolerant cotton cultivars, Development of value-added gladness cotton cultivars

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems