Nathan Gill, an assistant professor within Texas Tech's Department of Natural Resources Management, joined the Texas Tech faculty in 2019. He is an expert in geography and fire ecology.

His research broadly centers on three broad themes:

• What a future with more wildfire means for ecosystem functioning and land management
• The effects of invasive plant species on fire, and the effects of fire on invasive plants
• The interactions between fire and other ecological disturbances, such as grazing, wind blowdown, and insect outbreak

Gill is currently studying these themes in wildland forests of Colorado, New Mexico, and Hawaii, as well as rangelands in Texas and New Mexico. His master's degree and doctorate degree in geography are from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.  He is a member of the American Association of Geographers and the International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America.

CONTACT: Christy Bratcher, Associate Dean for Research, Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Texas Tech University at (806) 742-2808 or christy.bratcher@ttu.edu 

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