• Coordinator and Principal Investigator of the UA contribution to the Asociación de Reforestación en Ambos Nogales, a binational, multisectoral partnership designed to increase the planting of native vegetation, enhance environmental awareness, and foster environmental leadership along the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. The partnership is an example of community-university collaboration, provides learning opportunities for students and faculty, and is a natural laboratory for the investigation of urban community-based natural resource initiatives and US-Mexico border environmental education efforts.
• Co-organizer of the UA Community Environmental Leadership Program, an informal, interdisciplinary association of faculty seeking to address local environmental problems while meeting community and university needs for experiential learning opportunities. The goal of the CELP is to enhance existing curricula and educational programs and create partnerships among community groups, faculty, staff, and students. Students work as individuals and in small groups on topics such as water harvesting, local food mapping, and schoolyard habitats.
• Co-principal investigator on two U.S. Minerals Management Service-funded studies examining the history and impacts of offshore oil and gas activity on individuals, families, and communities along the Gulf of Mexico.
• Principal investigator and manager of ongoing environmental management and education projects with Native American tribes.

As coordinator of BARA's undergraduate internship program to incorporate outstanding undergraduate students directly in sponsored research projects, I seek to include graduate and undergraduate students in all my own research and outreach initiatives and to help identify other projects with which students can become involved.

Classes
ANTH 537 Data Management and Analysis

ANTH 595f Applying Anthropology in Environmental
Decision Making

Selected Publications

• Austin, D., E. Mendoza, M. Kimpel-Guzmán, and A. Jaramillo. In press. Partnering for a New Approach: Maquiladoras, Government Agencies, Educational Institutions, Non-Profit Organizations, and Residents in Ambos Nogales. In Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Northern Mexico. University of California San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies.
• Austin, D. 2003. “Moving Offshore in the Gulf of Mexico: People, Technology, and the Organization of Work in the Early Years of Oilfield Diving.” Oil-Industry Journal. 4(1).
• Austin, D. 2003. “Community-Based Collaborative Team Ethnography: A Community-University-Agency Partnership.” Human Organization. 62(2):143-152.
• Lemos, M.C., D. Austin, R. Merideth, and R.G. Varady. 2002. “Public-private Partnerships as Catalysts for Community-based Water Infrastructure Development: The Border WaterWorks Program in Texas and New Mexico Colonias.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 20:281-295.
• Austin, D., K. Coelho, A. Gardner, R. Higgins, and T.R. McGuire. 2002. Social and Economic Impacts of Outer Continental Shelf Activities on Individuals and Families: Volume 1. Report prepared for the Gulf of Mexico Region of the Minerals Management Service. March.