Meet Our Staff

Greg Asner

Director

Andrea Cottrell

Assistant Director

Jorge Cruz

Business Operations Specialist

Heather D'Angelo

Communications Director

Paulina Gerstner

Program Director

Nick Vaughn

Data Science Program Lead

Core Faculty

Jnaneshwar Das

School of Earth and Space Exploration

Mary Donovan

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

Amy Frazier

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

Haunani Kane

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

Cliff Kapono

School of Social Transformation & School of Life Sciences

Jiwei Li

School of Earth and Space Exploration

Robin Martin

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

Elisabeth Kago Ilboudo Nébié

School of Human Evolution and Social Change

Affiliate ASU Faculty

John Kittinger

Global Institute of Sustainability and Conservational International

Elizabeth Wentz

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Adjunct Faculty

Chris Balzotti

The Nature Conservancy

John Burns

University of Hawaii, Hilo

Rhett Butler

Mongabay.com

Jamison Gove

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Steve Schill

The Nature Conservancy

Miles Silman

Wake Forest University

David R. Thompson

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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Tempe, AZ 85287

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Phone: 480-727-7896

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