Ramon Arrowsmith
Ramon Arrowsmith
School Director
Ramon Arrowsmith studies active faults, topography, the geologic context for human evolution in East Africa, and the geology of earthquakes. He teaches Field Geology and Structural Geology. He is currently the School of Earth and Space Exploration Director.
Ariel Anbar
Associate Director for Strategic and Faculty Development
Ariel Anbar is a scientist and educator interested in Earth’s past and future as an inhabited world, and the prospects for life beyond. His group develops novel geochemical methods to study topics ranging from the chemical evolution of the atmosphere and oceans to human disease. Trained as a geologist and a chemist, Anbar is a President’s Professor at Arizona State University on the faculty of the School of Earth & Space Exploration and the School of Molecular Sciences, and a Distinguished Global Futures Scientist in ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. Anbar directed ASU's Astrobiology Program from 2009 – 2015. Since 2015, he has been Director of ASU's Center for Education Through Exploration.
Sarah Stewart
Associate Director of Graduate Initiatives
Sarah Stewart is a planetary physicist who specializes in the study of collisions in the solar system. Her research encompasses the formation and destruction of planets, planetary geology, shock physics, and materials science.
Nathaniel Butler
Nathaniel Butler
Associate Director of Undergraduate Initiatives
Nat Butler is an astrophysicist interested in the properties and evolution of the early universe. His current research focuses on experiments to observe and study astrophysical explosions and to use these to probe the first stars and galaxies and their environments.
Maitrayee Bose
Maitrayee Bose
Associate Director of Community Outreach
Heather Throop
Associate Director Faculty and Inclusive Community
Heather Throop is an ecosystem scientist who studies how global-scale changes influence arid and semi-arid ecosystems. She has a joint appointment in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Life Sciences at ASU.
Professor Throop studies how carbon and nutrients cycle through plants, soils, and the atmosphere. Much of her work addresses how these cycles respond to human-caused changes in the environment, such as climate change and changing human land use.