Lara Prihodko

Lara is a College Associate Professor of Rangeland Ecology in the Animal and Range Sciences Department at New Mexico State University. She is a broadly trained Ecologist with a focus on interdisciplinary research combining ecology, geography, remote sensing and modeling. She grew up on the East coast of the US but has spent most of her adult life in the Western US, though you can’t really take the Jersey out of the girl. She received her BA in Archaeology from Boston University, MA in Geography from the University of Maryland and PhD in Ecology from Colorado State University. Her post-doctoral work was in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.