• PhD – Stony Brook University, Cell and Developmental Biology
• MS – University of Houston, Biology
• BS – University of Wisconsin – Madison, Zoology

• ESM 435 – Grant Proposal Writing

• Ph.D. in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology 2011, University of Minnesota
• B.S. in Biology 2002, Middlebury College, VT

• ESM 425 Environmental Impact Assessment
• ESM 462 Coastal & Marine Planning
• ESM 475 Senior Planning Practicum
• ESM 510 Human Dimensions of Natural Resources (Research Methods)

• Deep Springs College
• Humboldt State University: B.S. in Environmental Biology
• Virginia Tech: M.S., Ph.D. in Biology

• ESM 108 - Environmental Science & Climate Change
• ESM 230 – Environmental Methods
• ESM 303L - Applied Natural History and Ecology lab
• ESM 308 - Ecotopia
• BOT 105 – General Botany Lab

Murphy, J.F.  2005.  Field key to the marasmioid fungi in the Pacific Northwest.  Keys of the Pacific Northwest Key Council. 

Murphy, J.F.  2004.  “Temporal and spatial variation in the spore rain of Gymnopus subnudus measured by the spore trap method.”  In:  Fungi in Forest Systems. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Gardens, Vol. 89.

Murphy, JF, D Becker, and E Simandle.  2002. “Population monitoring and conservation of the black Toad Bufo exsul.”  Southwestern Naturalist 48(1):54-60.

Leacock, PR, GM Mueller, DP Lewis, and JF Murphy. 1999. “Utilizing foray records to document fungal diversity across North America.”  McIlvainea 14(1):88-92.

Schmit, JP, JF Murphy, and G Mueller. 1999. Macrofungal species diversity of a temperate oak forest: a test of species richness estimators. Canadian Journal of Botany 77:1014-1027.

Murphy, JF.  1997.  “Intersterility groups in Collybia subnuda.”  Mycologia 89(4): 566-577.

Murphy, JF, and OK Miller, Jr.  1997.  “Diversity and local distribution of mating alleles in Marasmiellus praeacutus and Collybia subnuda (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales).”  Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 8-17.

Murphy, JF.  1996.  “Fungal inventories - a status report and exhortation.”  McIlvainea 12 (2): 75-88.

Murphy, JF.  “Taxon of the Month.” A series published in the monthly newsletter of the Illinois Mycological Association. 

Murphy, JF, TJ Volk, TJ Leonard and D Derouen.  Revised for 1996.  Mycology: Laboratory Manual to accompany Botany\Plant Pathology 332.  UW Madison.

Murphy, JF, and OK Miller, Jr.  1994.  “Mycorrhizal syntheses with Alnus serrulata (Ait.) Willd.”  Castanea 59(2): 156-166.

Murphy, JF, and OK Miller, Jr.  1993.  “The population biology of two litter decomposing agarics on a southern Appalachian mountain.”  Mycologia 85(5):769-776

• B.S. in both Biology and Environmental Studies, 1982, Principia College, Illinois
• M.S. in Wildland Recreation Management, 1987, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
• Ph.D. in Forestry (recreation), 1994, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana

• ESM 105 – Natural Resources Conservation
• ESM 215 – Natural Resources Recreation
• ESM 415 – Park and Recreation Planning
• ESM 440 – Recreation Visitor Behavior and Management
• FOR 374 – Wilderness Area Management

Dr. Martin is the 2015 recipient of the national award for Excellence in Wilderness Stewardship Research, awarded by the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service.

My research focuses on visitor use of recreation settings and managing recreational use of natural resource areas, particularly parks, wilderness areas and similar public lands.

Much of my research involves recreation visitor studies which aim to increase our understanding of:

• the nature of the outdoor recreation experience
• problems that detract from recreation visitor enjoyment
• how to enhance the experience of recreation visitors
• how recreational activities may impact resources
• how to minimize the impacts of recreation
• issues of visitor access to areas, and how to balance an area’s recreational use with protection of its resources
• the direct and indirect techniques used to manage recreation visitors
• the factors that influence people's participation in outdoor recreation
• changing recreation use patterns and trends

As such, my research is best characterized as “human dimensions of natural resources” and involves quite a bit of social science, though in a natural resources context.

• J.D., 2010, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA
• B.S., 2002, Environmental Studies, Middlebury College, VT

• ESM 305 Environmental Conflict Resolution
• ESM 325 Environmental Law and Regulation
• ESM 499 Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee Seminar

My research engages intractable issues with entangled ethics that present decadal problems, humanized by the real struggles and triumphs of everyday life in a climate-changed world. My climate justice practice relies on ethnographic and empirical components that require long-term and sustained relationships with climate affected–communities.

The focus of my research from 2011–2019 was on climate displacement and planned community relocation. Past projects included: co-designing and building in-village relocation planning center with residents in Kivalina, Alaska; co-designing and building a human waste biorefinery; and producing a digital relocation archive of culturally curated content.

Currently, my research focuses on related climate justice themes: tribal sovereignty and offshore wind, and plausible futures for spent nuclear fuel sites exposed to climate and coastal hazards. I am also serving as a lead author for California’s 5th Climate Assessment North Coast Regional Report. For more on my latest research, see 44feetproject.com. See also this KEET TV Headline Humboldt interview about some of my collaborative NSF-funded research.

• M.S., Humboldt State University
• B.A., California State University - San Bernardino

• GSP 101: Geospatial Concepts
• GSP 270: Geographic Information Science
• GSP 370: Intermediate GIS
• GSP 318: Geospatial Programming I
• GEOG 473M: Drone Pilot Training I

• Doctor of Philosophy in Education (2013). University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Title: Diversifying Science: Recognizing Indigenous Knowledge systems as scientific worldviews.
• Masters of Science in Forestry, Natural Resource Education (2005). Oregon State University, Oregon
• Bachelor of Science in Fisheries and Wildlife (1999). Oregon State University, Oregon

• SCI 100 - Becoming a STEM Professional in the 21st Century
• NAS 331 - Indigenous Natural Resource Management Practices
• NAS 332 - Environmental Justice

My classroom is a forum where students can come to share their stories. It is a place where students learn to become critical thinkers not only about outside perspectives but their own inner beings.  As a Native American, I utilize my cultural perspectives and stories as a way to connect with students from different cultural understandings and backgrounds. As a teacher, I see myself as a guide whose job is to foster the growth and understandings of all students where students and teachers move collectively towards greater understanding to transform, strengthen, and broaden our understanding of the world we live in. I especially like to teach field courses that are based upon experiential learning and hands-on environmental enhancement projects.

As an Indigenous researcher of over 20 years working in a western framed education system, I have purposefully worked on decolonizing traditional western research norms through diversifying what research is and can be. I have done so through the process of Participatory Action Research projects. These projects are inclusive of indigenous knowledge and community being developed, carried out and disseminated through a collaborative partnership for the full cycle of research: What are the tribe’s/indigenous community’s researchable questions, science support needs, what are the metrics or things to study, how to collect and analyze the data, and for reporting the results and sharing the findings together for the benefit of indigenous peoples and their lands/valued resources.

Two recent examples of this include the following:

National Science Foundation (NSF-TSIP)

Ola I ka Aina: reviving ecosystems utilizing Indigenous Knowledge, Western Science, and Mathematics. (Ola I Ka ‘Aina Project) strengthens STEM programs by providing students community-based engagement and course work rooted in Indigenous Knowledge. Ola I Ka ‘Aina translates to “life generated by the land”, or when one cares for the ‘aina (land), the land will nourish and care for all. Ola I Ka ‘Aina Project seeks to reestablish this belief through hands on restoration and educational activities that not only teach students about the need to care for the land but also begins the healing relationship between Kuhialoko, the field-based community restoration site, and people.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Undergraduate Pathways Bridging Excellence in Agriculture and Tradition (UP-BEAT): is a two-year grant funded by USDA to help Indigenize the Sustainable Community Food Systems Bachelors of Applied Science (SCFS-BAS) undergraduate degree program at the University of Hawaii West Oahu.  The UP-BEAT project seeks to expand on the considerable success of food system focused SCFS program through the systematic integration of Indigenous Knowledge and community-based experiential learning; these offer effective innovations for sustainable food systems while enhancing the draw for Native Hawaiian and underserved students. UP-BEAT will build on the momentum SCFS to expand effective elements while improving accessibility and the integration of IK to enhance the educational experience and career aspirations of Native Hawaiian and underrepresented students.

• College of the Redwoods
• Humboldt State University: B.S. in Botany/Minor in Anthropology; M.A. in Biology

• ESM 425: Environmental Impact Assessment
• ESM 462: Coastal & Marine Planning
• ESM 230: Environmental Methods

• Spatial analysis, habitat suitability modeling
• Ph.D. in Forestry (GIS), 2006, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

• GSP 330: Mobile Mapping
• GSP 510: Research Methods in GSP

Jim researches appropriate methods for applying spatial analysis to a wide variety of natural resource management issues.  He specializes in habitat suitability modeling.

• Ph.D. – Geographic Information Science and Earth Observation (Vegetation Spectroscopy), University of Twente, Netherlands (2019)
• M.S- Geographic Information Science and Earth Observation for Natural Resources Management, University of Twente, Netherlands (2014)
• M.Phil – Geography and Environmental Science, University of Zimbabwe (2012)
• B.S - Geography and Environmental Science, University of Zimbabwe (2008)

• GSP 270 - Geographic Information Science