Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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Zach Aanderud

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
4125 LSB

Research Interests:
- Water Quality
- Microbial ecology
- Biogeochemistry
- Biotechnology

Ben Abbott

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
4125 LSB

Research Interests:
- Carbon and nutrient cycle response to disturbance
- Permafrost degradation
- Agriculture
- Urbanization
- Climate Change

Phil Allen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
2123 LSB

Research Interests:
- Seed ecophysiology
- Ecological restoration

James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Loreen Allphin Flinders

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5130 LSB

Research Interests:
- Ecological genetics
- Conservation genetics
- Phylogeography of rare plant genera and species
- Biogeography patterns
- Plant population and community ecology
- Plant reproductive ecology
- Systematics of Brassicaceae

Val Anderson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5025 LSB

Research Interests:
- Animal science
- Botany
- Seeds
- Shrubs
- Grass Geographic information systems (GIS)

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

John Chaston

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5132 LSB

Research Interests:
- Genetic determinants of host-microbe interactions
- Metagenomics
- Data science and analysis

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

Craig Coleman

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5134 LSB

Research Interests:
- Genetics
- Fungal pathogens

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Paul Frandsen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5115 LSB

Research Interests:
- Biodiversity
- Genetics
- Conservation genomics
- Phylogenetics
- Machine Learning and biological collections

Bradley Geary

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
4123 LSB

Research Interests:
- Endophytes in plants
- Seed germination and survival of native Utah plants
- Plant disease control- potato and quinoa

Neil Hansen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
4105B LSB

Research Interests:
- Water Use
- Water Conservation in Agricultural and Natural Systems
- Water quality protection

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

Bryan Hopkins

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5117 LSB

Research Interests:
- Soil science
- Plant nutrient or nutrition
- Water science

April Hulet

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5108 LSB

Research Interests:
- Rangeland restoration
- Rangeland resilience to disturbance
- Resistance to invasion
- Plant community restoration

David Jarvis

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5133 LSB

Research Interests:
- Genomics or genetics tools
- Crop or agriculture improvement
- Crop or agricultural growth in marginal environment

Rick Jellen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5009 LSB

Research Interests:
- Chromosomal genetics and genomics
- Breeding relationships between domestic and wild crops
- Crop introduction
- Crop breeding into new environments

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Randy Larsen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5046 LSB

Research Interests:
- Wildlife ecology and management
- Wildlife recovery
- Wildlife conservation

John Lee

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Manufacturing Engineering

Research Interests:
- Organizational Quality and competitive advantage

Matthew Madsen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5048 LSB

Research Interests:
- Rangeland seeding success
- Functional plant communities development
- Edaphic, climatic and biotic factors effects on plant survival and productivity
- Barriers to restoration success
- Seed enhancement technologies

Jeff Maughan

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5144 LSB

Research Interests:
- Genomics or genetics tools
- Accelerated breeding of orphaned crops

Brock McMillan

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5023 LSB

Research Interests:
- Population and community ecology of mammals
- Wildlife habitat associations
- Behavioral ecology of mammals
- Wildlife conservation

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Steve Petersen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5027 LSB

Research Interests:
- Rangeland ecosystems
- Plant community dynamics
- Animal-habitat interactions
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Wildland spatial ecology
- Rangeland ecology and management
- Forest ecology and management

Todd Robinson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5110 LSB

Research Interests:
- Carbon isotopes
- Muscle proteins
- Ruminant nutrition
- Animal science
- Muscle physiology
- Feeding

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Tom Smith

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
5050 LSB

Research Interests:
- Wildlife- human conflicts
- Environmental biology
- Wildlife management and conservation

Sam St Clair

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
4124 LSB

Research Interests:
- Plant Ecology
- Physiological and community ecology
- Plant-environment interaction effect on plant community
- Ecosystems
- Disturbance and invasion ecology
- Plant-animal interactions
- Plant-plant interactions
- Global change biology

Ryan Stewart

College: Life Sciences
Department: Plant & Wildlife Sciences
2124 LSB

Research Interests:
- Agave
- Miscanthus
- Opuntia
- Yucca
- Ecophysiology
- Plant ecology
- Plant genetics

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class