Election 2008 Issue Experts

Climate Change

John Geissman

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.

Economics

Kate Krause

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.

Economics

Don Coes

Professor of Economics
dcoes@unm.edu

Don Coes is an expert in globalization and the growth of economic markets in South America, especially Brazil.

Economics

Melissa Binder

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,

Energy

Mohamed El Genk

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.

Energy Production

Tim Wawrzyniec

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.

Iraq

Michele Chwastiak

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.

Read about her latest research.

Veterans Affairs

Darrin Kowitz

Department of Sociology

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.

Water

Denise Fort

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.