Ken Boykin is a Research Associate Professor with the USGS New Mexico Cooperative Research Unit and Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology at New Mexico State University. His research has included work on riparian ecosystems, species at risk, fire ecology, habitat modeling, and conservation applications. He and the staff and graduate students of the Center for Applied Spatial Ecology have recently focused on multiscale approaches to identify biodiversity metrics and ecosystems services. This work includes the use of alternative futures and system dynamic modeling to identify outcomes of conservation practices, urban grow-out, and climate change. He has authored and coauthored numerous peer-refereed articles, book chapters, and technical reports.