Krishna Jagadish
Email: kjagadish.sv@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7953
Research Interests:

• Professor and Thornton Distinguished Chair
• Director - Texas Coalition for Sustainable Integrated Systems (TeCSIS)
• Coordinator - Texas Alliance for Water Conservation (TAWC)
• Identify forage-based cropping systems responses to drought stress
• Develop an integrated approach to forage production that includes abiotic stress resilience and management strategies

Mark Burow
Email: md.burow@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-5717
Research Interests:

• Peanut breeding and molecular genetics aimed at increasing water use efficiency

Benildo de los Reyes
Email: benildo.reyes@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6421
Research Interests:

• Translating regulatory genetic mechanisms learned with rice to understand traits conferring salinity and drought tolerance in cotton

Eric Hequet
Email: eric.hequet@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0621
Research Interests:

• Develop improved testing methods for cotton fiber quality
• Collaboration research with the cotton breeding and biotechnology community to improve properties of cotton fibers

Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella
Email: luis.herrera-estrella@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7247
Research Interests:

• Functional genomics of water deficit, salinity, and nutrient stress responses in crops

Haydee Laza
Email: haydee.laza@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-8457
Research Interests:

• Applied plant physiology and agroecosystem functioning across biological and temporal scales

Scott Longing
Email: scott.longing@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-1965
Research Interests:

• Assessment, conservation, and restoration of insect biodiversity in Southern U.S. ecosystems.

Wenxuan Guo
Email: wenxuan.guo@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2266
Research Interests:

• Remote sensing, precision agriculture, and variable rate irrigation of unmanned aerial systems in precision plant phenotyping

Thayne Montague
Email: thayne.montague@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7311
Research Interests:

• Plant physiology and plant-microclimate interactions
• Drought tolerance of woody ornamental plants, grapevines, and other fruit crops

Venugopal Mendu
Email: venugopal.mendu@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6327
Research Interests:

• Identify and characterize genes involved in cell wall biosynthesis in Arabidopsis and apply to cotton fiber improvement

Glen Ritchie
Email: glen.ritchie@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-4325
Research Interests:

• Develop effective and economical water management strategies for crop production in the Southern High Plains

Jyotsna Sharma
Email: jyotsna.sharma@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2637
Research Interests:

• Interaction of biotic and abiotic processes over spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales to explain the dynamics of angiosperm populations and communities

Catherine Simpson
Email: catherine.simpson@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-5691
Research Interests:

• Water conservation and sustainability in urban systems
• Alternative water sources and their application in urban systems and horticultural crops

Sukhbir Singh
Email: s.singh@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3108
Research Interests:

• Water-efficient vegetable production in urban or small-scale systems

Joey Young
Email: joey.young@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-8457
Research Interests:

• Improved turfgrass management in water-limited conditions

Veronica Acosta-Martinez
Email: veronica.acostamart@ars.usda.gov
Phone: (806) 723-5233
Research Interests:

• Soil health-climate interactions on microbial diversity and functions

Sanjit Deb
Email: sanjit.deb@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-1373
Research Interests:

• Soil physics and water resources management in water-limited and irrigated agricultural production systems in natural and managed ecosystems

Matthew Siebecker
Email: matthew.siebecker@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0266
Research Interests:

• Environmental soil and water chemistry concerning soil mineral cycling and heavy metal contamination of flooded soils.

Lindsey Slaughter
Email: lindsey.slaughter@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-1345
Research Interests:

• Soil microbial community structure, function, and interactions with other biota affect and as affected by environmental disturbance

Tom Arsuffi
Email: tom.arsuffi@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6918
Research Interests:

• Aquatic and watershed ecology and environmental education

Cade Coldren
Email: cade.coldren@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-4976
Research Interests:

• Landscape ecohydrology and modeling

Warren Conway
Email: warren.conway@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6579
Research Interests:

• Ecologically relevant and applied wildlife population, conservation, and management

Robert Cox
Email: robert.cox@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 742-1983
Research Interests:

• Community and restoration ecology, conservation of rare and endemic plant species
• Ecology of invasive species

Phil Gipson
Email: philip.gipson@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7747
Research Interests:

• Responses of wildlife populations and plant and animal communities to environmental change and impacts of human activity

Kerry Griffis-Kyle
Email: kerry.griffis-kyle@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2619
Research Interests:

• Human impacts, including climate change, on wetlands and wetland dependent species
• Management strategies to mitigate stressors on sensitive natural resources

Gad Perry
Email: gad.perry@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2339
Research Interests:

• Conservation issues and intensifying impacts of humans on the environment, including urban ecosystems and international development

Carlos Portillo-Quintero
Email: carlos.portillo@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7309
Research Interests:

• Land use/land cover dynamics for efficient ecosystem management, wildlife studies, watershed management, urban/rural ecology and climate change adaptation

Carlos Villalobos
Email: c.villalobos@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-5248
Research Interests:

• Use and conservation of natural resources applied to the effects of grazing, water usage, and prescribed burning on vegetation and animal response

Darren Henry
Email: darren.henry@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7747
Research Interests:

• Improving cattle performance and efficiency through reduced methane production in water-limited grazing systems.

Michael Farmer
Email: michael.farmer@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6996
Research Interests:

• Long-run surface water and groundwater management and planning
• Zoning practices that accommodate changes in commercial and residential landscapes

Phil Johnson
Email: phil.johnson@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0474
Research Interests:

• Economics of agricultural water management and policy issues

Donna Mitchell McCallister
Email: donna.m.mitchell@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7189
Research Interests:

• Economics of crop water use and food scarcity, water policy, and sustainability of agricultural production

Shaikh Mahfuz Rahman
Email: shaikh.m.rahman@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0505
Research Interests:

• Environmental, energy, development economics, and organization of agricultural supply chains

Chenggang Wang
Email: chenggang.wang@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6238
Research Interests:

• Natural resource economics and rural development, with a focus on land, water, and the behavior of low-income households whose livelihoods depend on those resources

Courtney Meyers
Email: courtney.meyers@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-4364
Research Interests:

• Impacts of outreach on shaping public perception of water conservation practices.

Rudy Ritz
Email: rudy.ritz@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-4807
Research Interests:

• Development of effective education practices in training teachers and professionals.

Eric Bernard
Email: eric.bernard@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3482
Research Interests:

• Coupled modeling for holistic, transdisciplinary, eco-human-water systems planning and design aimed at resiliency
• Cutting edge GIS-GIScience, GeoDesign and LiDAR integration in multi-dimensional solutions spanning scales and system dynamics

Sukhbir Singh
Email: s.singh@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3108
Research Interests:

• Water-efficient vegetable production in urban or small-scale systems

Jason Sowell
Email: jason.sowell@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6247
Research Interests:

• Analysis of how technology informs design, spatial experience, and landscape performance in urban settings

Joey Young
Email: joey.young@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-8457
Research Interests:

• Improved turfgrass management in water-limited conditions