Our People

Dan has focused on research and practice at multiple locations and scales including projects in China, Turkey, the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the Gulf Coast. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Idaho, where he has focused his efforts on developing research and pedagogical approaches on various topics such as compelling digital representation, Landscape Planning and Geodesign through GIS applications, and implementation techniques of stormwater facilities.

David L. Griffith is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Resilient Communities at the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the University of Idaho in 2016, with specializations in invasive species ecology and social-ecological systems science. Prior to beginning a doctoral program, he worked at Virginia Tech and Appalachian State University as an instructor of interdisciplinary studies and as a scientific writing and publishing consultant. He serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network: EyesNorth and his research focuses on best practices for Community-based Observing (CBO) science and expanding CBO methodologies to domains outside the Arctic. CBO are methodologies used to engage communities in taking a leading role in environmental security and community safety.

Andy Kliskey is President’s Professor of Community & Landscape Resilience and the Director of the University of Idaho Center for Resilient Communities (CRC). Kliskey is also the Idaho EPSCoR Director (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). He is a social-ecological systems scientist and behavioral geographer with training, teaching and research experience in landscape ecology, behavioral and perceptual geography, geographic information systems (GIS), planning, policy analysis, and surveying.

Andy has spent the last 20 years working in Maori communities in New Zealand, rural communities in western Canada, Inupiat communities in northwestern Alaska, Denai’na communities in southcentral Alaska, and rural communities in Idaho examining community and landscape resilience. His teaching and research is interdisciplinary in nature and directed at integrated methodologies in social-ecological systems that combines stakeholder-engagement, scenario analysis, and geospatial modeling. Kliskey is project lead on two NSF Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) awards.

Mario works helping Idaho producers to manage and reduce the environmental impact of their livestock and farming operations while increasing their productivity, sustainability and workforce education.

Research: Economic Geography, Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning, GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modeling

Manoj K. Shrestha is an associate professor of public administration and policy. His areas of teaching and research interests include public administration, public policy, local government, collaborative governance and networks, institutional collective action, and community sustainability.

Brian Wolf is department chair of Sociology and Anthropology and a professor of sociology. His area of research centers on the intersection between organizations, crime and social control.

Steve Drown, ASLA served as Department Chair and Program Head of the Landscape Architecture program from 1994-2017. He practiced extensively prior to coming to Idaho, winning national and international awards for his landscape architecture work. He maintains his landscape architecture license in Ohio and is currently consulting with landscape architecture firms in China.

Research: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology