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Judy Buzard, Operations Manager
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Gary
Deason, Ph.D., Deputy Director
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Julye Evans, Events Coordinator
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Heather Farley,
Office Manager
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Maria Galvez, Accounting Assistant
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Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., Director
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Stacey Hamburg, Graduate Assistant, Strategic Initiatives
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Shelley Silbert,
Director of Development,
Strategic Initiatives
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Patty West, Lab Manager
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Ben
Williams, Student Support
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Judy Buzard, Operations Manager |
 Field
Marks:
Relatively short in stature, but big on energy. Has
brown hair and green eyes.
Preferred Habitats:
Found consistently in the windy, dusty region of
Doney Park conducting numerous experiments on regional
vegetation. Is normally found in the company of husband Jim in
search of great tropical locations to scuba dive, but prefers the crystal clear waters of the
Caribbean. When not busy planning the next getaway to the
tropics, is usually planning a trip to visit her far away
children and grand daughters. Currently pursuing a master's
degree in Business Administration in her spare time.
Characteristic behavior:
Within the confines of Peterson Hall, can be found with
red pencil in hand, balancing accounts, juggling accounts, and
consistently asking director and development officer to raise more money.
Ecological Niche:
Money problem solver, data base developer, student.
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Gary Deason, Ph.D., Deputy Director |
 Field Marks
Tall, large, mature member of a once northern species. Appears
calm. Orderly except in meetings when inevitable alpha behavior
emerges. Informal appearance. Prefers walking.
Preferred Habitat
Found previously on lakes and streams of the boreal forest of
northeastern Minnesota and southern Ontario. Still frequents
these northern latitudes in summers for their aquatic resources.
Now winters in high desert regions of northern Arizona enjoying
hiking trails and ancient ruins. Although ranging into new
territory, continues to nest on field-woodland interfaces
meandering in evenings among local forests on wildlife trails.
Characteristic Habits
From late August through early June, spends many hours with
other members of the species perched around large tables
exchanging vocalizations – a ritual social behavior whose exact
meaning and outcome remains obscure in spite of years of
participation. Occasionally seen with younger members of species
passing on information.
Ecological Niche
The migrant has been seen making forays into cool deep canyons,
high windy mesas, riparian systems, ancient ruins, modern tribal
communities, and, in protest, sweltering urban areas. Although
new to its adopted territory, usually adapts quickly to become a
part of its surroundings.
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Julye Evans, Events Coordinator |
 Field Marks:
Shorter than the average bear, what she lacks in stature she
makes up for in energy. With blonde hair and green eyes, you can
find her racing around events, only sitting down when the event
is over. Otherwise, she can be found in her office, planning the
event, on the phone with contacts or cheerfully watering her
plants.
Preferred Habitats:
She can be found anywhere from curled up reading or playing with
her needlework to outside hoofing it around campus or riding
her bike. Frequently found in the company of her husband or her
dogs. Her work and home environments are overflowing with plants.
Her husband often complains that he lives in a jungle!
Characteristic Behavior:
Often found with notebook in hand to make notes, she says, "if
I don't write it down, it won't happen!" Otherwise, she will be
bounding around preparing for, or cleaning up after, various
events.
Ecological Niche:
Detail organizer, cheerful planner and houseplant keeper.
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Maria Galvez, Accounting Assistant |
Field
Marks:
This
relatively average height species is most commonly spotted in
comfy jeans and a t-shirt occasionally exhibiting business
casual plumage. This particular variety of Maria has brown eyes
and exceptionally long brown hair.
Preferred Habitats:
While eager to explore new lands like Australia and Europe she
is most commonly found exploring the southwestern region of the
US. This species enjoys getting her feet wet in the cool waters
of Oak Creek and finding beautiful views atop the mountains of
northern Arizona. During colder seasons she can be observed
enjoying a cup of tea and crafting in her warm, cozy apartment.
Characteristic Behavior:
Throughout the fall and spring Maria frantically deciphers
complex methods for documenting and evaluating financial
transactions. She prefers to escape such chaos by observing
others fictitiously relate via modern technology. When not
laughing and exchanging experiences with the species known as
Judy she can be found processing expenditures, grumbling over
travel documentation, or hunting down a solution to unbalanced
accounts.
Ecological Niche:
Primary contribution is tracking the inflow and outflow of
monies for the center. Provides a helping hand whenever and
wherever possible.
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Heather Farley, Office Manager |
 Field
Marks:
Of average height and build, this active
individual can camouflage in almost any environment. Most often,
she is found in her office skin which may take on the appearance
of a young office professional. But don’t be fooled – you can
also find her in dirty hiking boots and ripped up jeans or a
chic number appropriate for a night on the town. However, the
latter sightings tend to be much rarer. She frequently wears a
long brown mane and hazel eyes with her relentless smile.
Preferred Habitats:
While this particular species has migrated
from the drastically different Eastern Coastal ecosystem, she
now takes pleasure in taking in as much cool, fresh air as she
can in the Northern Arizona area. She can be found warming
herself on long hikes in Sedona or cooling down on Mt.
Humphreys. When she is in hibernation, she frequents her warm
and toasty couch or her sunny bedroom.
Characteristic behavior:
Heather typically can be found typing away
at her computer either preparing meeting minutes from the latest
meeting she attended or arranging fascinating travel plans for
CSE Director, Gary Nabhan. Otherwise she may be helping to
organize meetings and conferences or promoting CSE in any way
she can.
Ecological Niche:
As the Center’s Office Manger, this species seeks
to be the point-woman as much as possible. Whether she is
helping other staff members to accomplish a task or talking to
folks about the goals and accomplishments of CSE, she does her
best to be as knowledgeable as she can.
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Stacey Hamburg,
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Field Marks:
Somewhat short in stature, brown eyes and brown curled plumage.
Hints of her New York origins can be heard in her call, more
apparent when excited. Usually clad in blue jeans and the
softest, most comfortable blue fleecy shirts and jackets around.
Gets around on a blue bicycle - rain, snow or shine.
Preferred Habitats:
Lately she has been found walking, running, biking the mountains
and deserts of the West but has been known to wander the world
from Asia to Central America. Most recently she is found in
front of her computer in Peterson Hall, or with her nose in a
political science or environmental textbook hour after hour
after hour…
Characteristic Behavior:
Reading, studying and studying some more… Listening to National
Public Radio or Democracy Now! on internet radio … Ranting like
a lunatic about political improprieties and public complacency,
writing letters to editors and senators concerning the crucial
issue of the day… or perhaps running up the closest mountain or
wandering the forest with her sweet dog and loved one.
Ecological Niche:
As assistant to the Director of Development, she will be found
on the computer researching and writing, assembling the pieces
for grants as well as filling in random gaps and where needed.
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Gary Paul Nabhan, Director |
 Field
Marks:
Usually first seen from afar, as part of a moving dust
cloud or near the vortex of multi-cultural workshop or
celebration. Once within range for positive identification, I am
the slightly curly, bearded, somewhat disheveled middle-age guy
warbling in a mix of Native American, European and Middle
Eastern languages, though my call notes are typically in
English, Spanish, Seri or O’odham. As Director of the Center, my
plumage changes seasonally, from subdued coats and ties in
Washington DC to bolo ties and vests at conferences in the
Southwest, to khakis, teeshirts and running shoes while involved
in desert fieldwork.
Characteristic Behavior:
Mixing jokes and big ideas, fluttering my hands and arms
in attempts to make them (the ideas) fly. Listening to messages
coming in across boundaries that are sometimes inaudible to
others in the room. Readiness to get my hands dirty whenever
there is a tangible need to demonstrate that cross-cultural
collaboration for sustainable land and water stewardship can
become a reality on ground where others thought such an outcome
might be impossible. Often reported to be writing books of
essays, poems or parables long before daylight reaches Winona,
Arizona.
Preferred Habitats:
Workshops, meeting rooms, garden rows, and springs.
Migrating seasonally between cultural ecozones on the Colorado
Plateau, and those in the Sonoran Desert near the Sea of Cortez.
En route, frequenting sustainable agriculture farms and wild
plant gathering sites throughout North America. Occasionally
spotted as a vagrant in Lebanon, Italy, central Mexico or the
upper Midwest.
Ecological Niche:
As Director of the Center, I serve as our spokesperson in
meetings with NAU administrators, collaborating organizations,
professional societies, foundations, agencies and rural
communities. I also work with others to build CSE’s internal
team’s capacity to model the kinds of collaborative behavior
essential to good research, teaching and community-based
development. I ensure that our commitment to advancing the
natural and cultural sciences does not leave out the
environmental arts and humanities. As an essayist, poet,
lecturer and workshop facilitator, I spread the Good Word about
NAU and its partners far and wide. I serve on advisory or
consulting boards for the National Park Service, Orion Society,
Trust for Public Lands, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, Seed
Savers Exchange, AERA, Terralingua, Amazon Conservation Team,
Radius of Arab-American Writers (RAWI), and in the past, on
those for Native Seeds/SEARCH, the Society for Conservation
Biology, Society for Economic Botany, Society for Ethnobiology,
and Sonoran Desert Protection Plan. I try to gain more than half
of all my foods from local sources, raising heirloom vegetables,
field crops and fruit, raising Navajo-Churro sheep, turkeys and
hogs, and gathering wild plant foods.
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Shelley Silbert, Director of Development, Strategic
Initiatives |
 Field
Marks:
Hardy, medium-stature, brown head with high cheekbones, hazel
eyes and a broad-toothed bill. Plumage highly variable but tends
towards saturated colors of cobalt blue, purple or green with
black legs. Molts frequently to match changes in habitat. One of
three species of Silberts naturalized in western U.S., rest of
family found in southeastern U.S. in coastal and forested areas.
Preferred habitats:
Frequently observed careening down hiking trails in canyons and
mountains, occasionally seen solitary and still beneath aspen
branches with eyes turned towards the sky. Casual vagrant across
much of the continent, especially in the summer. Rare migrant to
Eurasia, Central and South America. Regularly seen at streams in
warm weather, as well as along highways and the Flagstaff Urban
Trail System, moving swiftly on spoked wheels with grey and red
helmet obscuring brown head. Seldom seen in highly urban
environments, except when foraging for resources to support CSE
brood and other newly hatched ideas to advance environmental
initiatives.
Characteristic Behavior:
Readily identified by energetic movements, often colliding with
related members of genus in stairwells of Peterson Hall. Often
sighted running from meeting to meeting, with regular mid-day
forays to jogging trails and yoga classes. Calls in both English
and Spanish include a low drone, occasional groans, and a
frequent melodious chuckle. Rarely displays aggression, but can
show agile hunting behavior when searching for green feed.
Distinctive call a bubbling series of “Support us, visit us,
this is exciting.” Active and conspicuous, but behavior is often
hidden behind the thickets of more obvious CSE activities.
Ecological Niche:
As Director of Development for Strategic Initiatives at NAU,
this species of Silbert seeks ways to support inter-departmental
efforts towards creative environmental solutions on the Colorado
Plateau, as well as supporting priority Native American
initiatives. Keystone species in habitats requiring cooperation of
diverse colonies to achieve specific goals and objectives.
Reports directly to University Advancement Department, but nests
at CSE. Active in the local region, serving on the
Coconino County Parks and Recreation Commission, on the board of
directors of Friends of Flagstaff’s Future, and numerous other
organizations. Best known locally for her long-time association
with oak leaves at The Nature Conservancy. Frequently observed
soaring exuberantly with close cronies, one abnormally active
male offspring, and diverse members of multiple species. Range
is expanding.
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Patty West, Lab Manager |
 Field Marks:
Before you see Patty (synonyms - Patita, Patsy,
Patunia, or Pattycake but will answer to almost anything said
kindly) you may hear laughter, humming, giggling, or mumbling
some language she is trying to learn. Other identifying
characteristics are short stature, blue eyes, and multicolored
pelage (brown/blond/red/gray). To identify her from the outer
coat is difficult, because it varies from polyester paisley to
plaid cotton (usually not at the same time) depending on season,
environment, and especially mood.
Preferred Habitats:
This phytophyle could be encountered anywhere on the
planet that plants (including algae) grow, but her home range
tends to be between southern Sonora, Mexico and northern
Arizona. You are more likely to find her in roadless areas, on
desert islands, or near water of any kind (including tea and
coffee).
Characteristic Behavior:
Typically packing or unpacking, this smiling,
omnivorous vegephyle is often over-caffeinated and moving
quickly to frantically avert disasters, but is occasionally
found collapsed in a torpid state on the piles of interesting
literature on her desk.
Ecological Niche:
As ethnoecologist and lab manager for the Applied
Ethnoecology Laboratory, she is an adaptable generalist whose
primary ecological role is to facilitate resource movement
(somewhat mychorrhizal-like) and communication between members
of the Center for Sustainable Environments system, communities
on the Colorado Plateau, students, and staff.
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Ben
Williams, Student Support |
 Field Marks:
This curly haired, glasses wearing creature is of average height
and is usually seen riding an orange bike through the streets of
Flagstaff. Although not aware of it himself, hints of his South
Dakota accent are sometimes detected. Despises shopping for
clothes and is generally seen wearing the same three or four
“outfits”.
Preferred Habits:
Favorite activities include sleeping, eating, cooking, biking,
thinking, browsing through but never buying books at Barnes and
Noble, eating pastries at Macy’s, spending time with friends,
and traveling. Loves that the Urban Trail is fifty meters from
his front door and enjoys the quiet escape it offers.
Characteristic Behavior:
Typical behaviors include a somewhat constant studying regimen,
abnormally long periods of time spent in the kitchen, listening
to music, reading good, inspiring books, and unwillingness to
walk to the mailbox when he can ride his bike instead.
Ecological Niche:
Thrives in the sun and blue skies of Flagstaff and surrounding
areas. Loves the countless trails surrounding Flagstaff, the
character of downtown Flagstaff, the enormous turnout at
community events, and the sound of the train (from a distance,
of course). Enjoys the student-loan-supported college lifestyle
and will likely take as long as possible to complete his
undergraduate degree.
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