Andrew Sanchez Meador, Ecological Restoration Institute, Executive Director

Andrew grew up in Mississippi and received his BS and MS from Mississippi State University, specializing in longleaf pine forest ecology. Andrew moved to Arizona in 2002 and completed his PhD in December 2006, after which he began a career with the US Forest Service and is currently the Executive Director of the Ecological Restoration Institute and an Associate Professor in the School of Forestry at NAU. Andrew’s research interests focus on quantifying how natural and anthropogenic disturbances shape forested and woodland ecosystems, the application of novel quantitative and technological approaches to support forest management, and exploring ways to restore damaged, degraded, or destroyed ecosystems.