Steve Archer

Steve Archer is a Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona with appointments in the Global Change, Arid Lands Resource Sciences, and Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs. A Fellow in the Ecological Society of America and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Archer has a BA in Liberal Arts from Augustana College and a MS and PhD in Rangeland Ecosystem Science from Colorado State University. Trained as a plant ecologist and ecosystem scientist, Dr. Archer has conducted research in Arctic Tundra, Great Plains and Southwestern Desert ecosystems. An author of more than 140 scientific publications, his work has been broadly applied to improve sustainability of the world’s pastoral societies and commercial ranching enterprises. Research support includes major funding from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the US Department of Agriculture. He has held visiting fellowships at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center and in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at UC-Berkeley and has presented invited lectures in Australia, Africa, Europe, Central and South America.