Professor and Chair
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
jgeiss@unm.edu
John Geissman is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM. He talks about climate change and the immediate impacts he expects to see. He also speaks about the way climate change will interact with population increase to cause serious problems in sustainability.
Associate Professor of Economics
kkrause@unm.edu
Kate Krause's areas of expertise include the economics of public finance, economic behavior of children, experiments in natural resources and the economics of family life.
Professor of Economics
dcoes@unm.edu
Don Coes is an expert in globalization and the growth of economic markets in South America, especially Brazil.
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
mbinder@unm.edu
Melissa Binder's areas of economic expertise include the areas of education, child welfare, health, income security and poverty in Latin America and the United States,
Regents Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
Director of the Institute for Space and Nuclear Power
mgenk@unm.edu
Mohamed El Genk is a Regents Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering. He talks about nuclear power plants and ways in which they might ease the demand for energy even more quickly than offshore drilling.
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Tim Wawrzyniec teaches geology and petroleum geology at the University of New Mexico. He is an expert on the impact of oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, offshore drilling and other energy related issues.
Associate Professor of Accounting
Anderson Schools of Management
Michele Chwastiak, Associate Professor of Accounting at the Anderson Schools of Management talks about her research into accounting practices at the U.S. Department of Defense. Her research explores the ways in which poor accounting practices allow poor decision making about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Darrin Kowitz is a former United States Infantryman and a current sociology doctoral student and instructor at the University of New Mexico. Kowitz is an expert on Veterans Affairs, the problems veterans returning to civilian life face, and has ideas on what can be done to help veterans.
Professor of Law
UNM School of Law
fort@law.unm.edu
Denise Fort, Professor at the UNM School of Law speaks about water resources in the western United States and they way they impact public policy.