Department Directory

Jim Barborak

Co-Director, Center for Protected Area Management

Jim Barborak is a multilingual specialist in protected area planning and management with over 40 years experience in over 25 nations

Cassi Camara

Stu Admin & Clerical

Joel Correia

Assistant Professor

Climate & environmental justice, political ecology of conservation & development, Indigenous rights, Latin America

Stuart Cottrell

Professor, Sustainable Tourism, Coordinator of Global Tourism Concentration

His research focus includes sustainable tourism development - linking tourism, nature conservation and protected areas; collaborative conservation and protected area management; and perceptions of landscape disturbance - implications for human dimensions of natural resources, recreation and tourism.

Jamie Dahl

Assistant Professor

Ryan Finchum

Co-Director, Center for Protected Area Management

Protected Area Management, Ecotourism, Environmental Interpretation, and Conservation Leadership

Tian Guo

Assistant Professor

Behavior change, human processes of the coupled human-nature systems

John Hammond

PhD Program, Watershed Science - Stephanie Kampf

Austin Hannon

Communications Coordinator

Jacqie Hasan

Academic Support Coordinator

Fede Holm

Post Doctoral Staff - Instructor NRRT 330

David Knight

Assistant Professor; Natural Resource Tourism

community-based tourism, sustainability, empowerment, poverty alleviation, tourism resilience

Anna Lavoie

Assistant Professor

Gendered livelihoods, resource stewardship, and feminist political ecology

Paul Layden

Master Instructor | Undergraduate Coordinator | Internship Coordinator | Conference Coordinator

Internships, career preparation, event planning, natural resource ecology and measurements.

Mia Li

Graduate Assistant

Dawson Metcalf

Director of Enterprise Programs, Program Manager for Conservation Leadership

Leadership development with emphasis in environmental education.

Jon Salerno

Assistant Professor

Human adaptation to environmental change

Emily Schmieding

Conference and Event Coordinator, Instructor

Tara Teel

Professor / Graduate Coordinator

Sarah Walker

Assistant Professor

Human-Environment Interactions

Erin Weingarten

Ph.D. Student - GDPE/Ecology - Dr. Sara Bombaci's Lab

Lina Xiong

Associate Professor

Dr. Bear’s research areas include internal branding, service management and marketing, as well as destination brand marketing.

Wen Zhang

Assistant Professor