Gaxiola studies the physiological mechanisms by which plants regulate root activity and nutrient uptake. His work may be used to engineer crops that could help secure future food supplies.

Arianne Cease is an Assoc Prof and Director of the Global Locust Initiative. She uses transdisciplinary approaches to study how human-plant-insect interactions affect agroecosystem and locust management sustainability.

Caseldine is the Curator of Collections for the Center for Archaeology and Society Repository in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

Morehart is an environmental anthropologist, an ethnobotanist/paleoethnobotanist, and an archaeologist.

My research seeks to understand how invertebrate herbivores solve the problem of balancing multiple and changing nutrient needs and how it affects their behavior and performance.

Muenich is a watershed modeler focused on surface hydrology and water quality, especially in agricultural ecosystems. She focuses on evaluating the impact of land management decisions within the food-energy-water nexus.

Co-director position with the ASU SolarSPELL Initiative leading staffing, engineering, library development, and computer engineering aspects of the project.