Research Directors

Research Administration

Matthew Fraser, Director, Research Development

Ann Kinzig, Chief Research Strategist

Project Directors for Current Research Administered by the Institute

Joshua Abbott
Principal Investigator, Assessing Prohibited Species Bycatch Avoidance Behaviors and Outcomes in the Amendment 80 Fisheries of the North Pacific

J. Martin Anderies
Principal Investigator, Agriculture, Water, and Institutions
Principal Investigator, Understanding Institutional Diversity and Robustness

Rick Shangraw
Interim Director, Decision Theater

Christopher Boone
Principal Investigator, Social Dynamics of Environmental Equity

Dan Childers
Director, Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research

Gary Dirks
Director, ASU Lightworks

Kevin Dooley
Co-Director, Sustainability Consortium

Stevan Earl
Principal Investigator, Impacts of Urbanization on Nitrogen Biogeochemistry in Xeric Ecosystems

Hallie Eakin
Manager, Managing Biodiversity under Climate Change

Jonathan Fink
Director, Center for Sustainability Science Applications

Michail Fragkias
Executive Officer, Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

Corrie Griffith
Program Coordinator, Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

Patricia Gober
Co-Director, Decision Center for a Desert City

Liz Marquez
Program Manager, Decision Center for a Desert City

Susanne Grossman Clarke
Principal Investigator, Influence of Urbanization on Weather in the Arid Phoenix Metropolitan Area

Sharon Harlan
Principal Investigator, Phoenix Area Social Survey

Ann Kinzig
Co-Director, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training in Urban Ecology
ASU Liaison, Advancing Conservation in a Social Context

Tim Lant
Research Director, Decision Theater

Leslie Landrum
ASU Liaison, SEINet

Margaret Nelson
Co-Director, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training in Urban Ecology

Charles Perrings
Principal Investigator, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Training Network

Patrick Phelan
Co-Director for Energy, National Center for Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy

Kamil Kaloush
Director, National Center for Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy

Charles Redman
Co-Director, Decision Center for a Desert City
Co-Director, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training in Urban Ecology

V. Kerry Smith
Principal Investigator, Economics of Environmental Vulnerability