Carolina Environmental Faculty

 

Michael Aitken Professor and Chair, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-1024 Email: mike_aitken(at)unc.edu Expertise: Microbial processes for waste treatment

Daniel Albert Research Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0298 Email: dan_albert(at)unc.edu Expertise: Aquatic and sedimentary biogeochemistry

Marc Alperin Associate Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-5184 Email: alperin(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Chemical oceanography

Richard Andrews Chair, Public Policy, Professor, City and Regional Planning, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-5011 Email: pete_andrews(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental and energy policy, policy instruments and incentives

Carol Arnosti Associate Department Chair, Marine Sciences, Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-5754 Email: arnosti(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: My research focuses on carbon cycling by microbial communities in the water column and in aquatic sediments. I am interested in the relationships between the chemical structure of a substrate and the rate and pathways by which the substrate is degraded by bacteria.

Sarav Arunachalam Research Assistant Professor, Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-2126 Email: sarav(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental modeling

Sridhar Balasubramanian Associate Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Kenan-Flagler Business School, PhD Coordinator, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Roy & Alice H. Richards Bicentennial Scholar, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3194 Email: Sridhar_Balasubramanian(at)unc.edu Expertise: Social and environmental factors that affect interest in and payment for clean water at the household level

Louise Ball Director of Undergraduate Studies, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7306 Email: lmball(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Metabolism and genotoxicity of xenobiotics

Larry Band Director, Institute for the Environment, Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3921 Email: lband(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: watershed hydrology; ecosystem water; carbon and nutrient cycling; GISci

John Bane Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0172 Email: bane(at)unc.edu Expertise: Physical oceanography; coastal meteorology; air-sea interactions

James Bartram Director, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: Email: jbartram(at)email.unc.edu Expertise:

Richard Beckman Distinguished Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4081 Email: rbeckman(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental photojournalism and video journalism

Geoff Bell Lecturer, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: Email: gwbell(at)email.unc.edu Expertise:

Todd BenDor Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4760 Email: bendor(at)unc.edu Expertise: Todd BenDor's research uses computer modeling to better understand the impacts that human activities and development can have on sensitive environmental systems. His recent work has focused on understanding the social and economic consequences of government policies that require environmental restoration during the urban development process. He has also been involved in using regional, land-use change modeling to assess a broad range of environmental impacts and dynamic environmental problems.

Larry Benninger Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0699 Email: lbenning(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: My research area is major-, minor-, and trace-element chemistry, including natural and artificial radionuclides.

Philip Berke Deputy Director, Institute for the Environment, Director, Center for Sustainable Community Design, Professor, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4765 Email: pberke(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Energy; urban form and environmental impacts; land use policy; environmental justice; modeling of community response to environmental change

Dick Bilsborrow Research Professor, Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-1738 Email: richard_bilsborrow(at)unc.edu Expertise: Economic demography; population, development & the environment

Frank Binkowski Adjunct Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Research Professor, Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-2231 Email: frank_binkowski(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental modeling; meteorological modeling

Stephen Birdsall Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3918 Email: birdsall(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental perception; cultural geography

Philip Bromberg Bonner Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-0774 Email: pwspar(at)med.unc.edu Expertise: Air pollution; respiratory disease

David Brower Research Professor, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4775 Email: brower(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Coastal zone management; land-use law; mitigating impacts of natural hazards

John Bruno Associate Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0263 Email: john_bruno(at)unc.edu Expertise: Ecology and conservation of marine communities; climate change and disease ecology.

Raymond Burby Professor Emeritus, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4774 Email: burby(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental regulation and policy; natural hazards and hazard mitigation; environmental justice; enforcement and compliance systems

Thomas Campanella Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4776 Email: tomcamp(at)unc.edu Expertise: Comparative urbanism, landscape history, urban design

Joe Carter Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0685 Email: clams(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Paleontology

Greg Characklis Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-5545 Email: charack(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Water resources engineering; resource management; adaptation to climate change impacts

Larry Chavis Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-8215 Email: chavisl(at)kenan-flagler.unc.edu Expertise: sustainable enterprise

Lisa Jones Christensen Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4261 Email: jonesl(at)kenan-flagler.unc.edu Expertise: Sustainable enterprise; social and environmental factors that affect interest in and payment for clean water at the household level

Russell Christman Professor-Retired, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-1683 Email: russ_christman(at)unc.edu Expertise: Aquatic chemistry

Chris Clemens Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, CTO, MegaWatt Solar, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3018 Email: clemens(at)physics.unc.edu Expertise: Stellar Seismology, Interacting Binaries, Time-resolved photometry and spectroscopy, Astronomical Instrumentation, Solar Energy

Drew Coleman Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0705 Email: dcoleman(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Isotope geochemistry applied to contaminant monitoring

Amy Cooke Lecturer, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-5496 Email: acooke(at)email.unc.edu Expertise:

Rose Cory Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (505) 667-6551 Email: rmcory(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Biogeochemistry, aquatic chemistry, climate change and carbon cycle, drinking water, limnology

J. Robert Cox Professor, Communication Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4937 Email: rcox1(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental communication and the public sphere; the role of discourse in social change

Doug Crawford-Brown Adjunct Professor, Public Policy, Director, Cambridge (UK) Field Site, Director Emeritus, Institute for the Environment, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: 011-44-2-1223-460039 Email: douglas_crawford-brown(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental risk analysis; mathematical modeling of human health; philosophical analysis of evidence in decisions; strategies for carbon dioxide reduction

Carole Crumley Director of Undergraduate Studies, Anthropology, Professor, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-5527 Email: crumley(at)unc.edu Expertise: Historical ecology; paleoclimatology; landscape ecology; archeology

Patrick Davison Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4073 Email: pdavison(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Documentary photojournalism; environmental issues and photojournalism

Joseph DeSimone Director, Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience & Technology, NSF Sci. & Tech. Center for Env. Resp. Solvents and Processes, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-2166 Email: desimone(at)unc.edu Expertise: Photovoltaics; solar energy; fuel cells; fluoropolymer coatings; smart nanoparticles; biological imaging; PRINT technology

Francis DiGiano Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-2480 Email: digiano(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Reexamination of infrastructures for water conveyance, water treatment, wastewater collection and wastewater treatment with the aim of fostering water sustainability, particularly through water reclamation systems for nonpotable reuse to lessen fresh water withdrawals.

Martin Doyle Associate Professor, Geography, Director, Center for Watershed Science and Management, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3876 Email: mwdoyle(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: River processes in including hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry, as well as policy research on market mechanisms in environmental conservation and restoration.

Lindsay Dubbs Lecturer, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 428-0115 Email: dubbs(at)email.unc.edu Expertise:

Michael Emch Associate Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-1010 Email: emch(at)unc.edu Expertise: Medical geography/ spatial epidemiology research that uses geographic information systems, satellite remote sensing, and spatial modeling techniques

Barbara Entwisle Director, Carolina Population Center, Kenan Professor, Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-7003 Email: entwisle(at)unc.edu Expertise: Social demography; population and the environment

Arturo Escobar Distinguished Kenan Professor, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-7392 Email: aescobar(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Political ecology; biodiversity conservation; environmental social movements

Alan Feduccia Professor Emeritus, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3050 Email: feduccia(at)bio.unc.edu Expertise: Avian evolution; paleobiology and systematics

Stephen Fegley Research Associate Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (252) 726-6841 ext. 222 Email: srfegley(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Shellfish biology, meiofaunal biology, barrier island ecology, and interactions among current flows, sediments, and organisms in shallow water habitats.

Maryann Feldman Director of Undergraduate Studies, Public Policy, S.K. Heninger Distinguished Professor, Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0674 Email: maryann.feldman(at)unc.edu Expertise: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth

Victor Flatt Professor, School of Law, Thomas F. and Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law, School of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4118 Email: flatt(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental law, interagency environmental cooperation, international environmental law, climate change, and the practice of carbon trading.

John Florin Associate Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3879 Email: jflorin(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Population geography, medical geography

Mike Flynn Professor of Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: 919-966-3473 Email: mflynn(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Industrial hygiene

Joel Fodrie Research Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (252) 726-6841 ext. 149 Email: jfodrie(at)unc.edu Expertise: Coastal Biological Oceanography: Fish and bivalve population ecology; Connectivity of marine populations and ecosystems; Complex trophic interactions in marine communities; Ecosystem function in relation to habitat quality, availability and utilization; Long-term community patterns

Donald Fox Associate Chair, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-1024 Email: foxd(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Air pollution

Rebecca Fry Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-6864 Email: rfry(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Cancer, Child development, Environment (water), Global health

Greg Gangi Associate Director for Education, Institute for the Environment, Research Assistant Professor, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-9805 Email: ggangi(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Experiential education; conservation; environmental policy

William Glaze Director Emeritus, Carolina Environmental Program, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (503) 748-1921 Email: wglaze0876(at)yahoo.com Expertise: Ecology and health; sustainable technologies

Allen Glazner Professor and Chair, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0689 Email: afg(at)unc.edu Expertise: Volcanism and volcano-climate links; geothermal systems; long-term geochemical cycling; geoinformatics

David Godschalk Stephen Baxter Professor Emeritus, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-5012 Email: dgod(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Land-use planning; smart growth; dispute resolution

Avram Gold Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7304 Email: golda(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Chemical synthesis; spectroscopic methods

William Gray Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-3013 Email: graywg(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: My research is in the area of multiphase flow in porous media. This fundamental work has applications in groundwater supply and contamination.

Ashu Handa Associate Professor, Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-0350 Email: shanda(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Household economic and demographic behavior in developing countries

Adel Hanna Research Professor and Director, Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development, UNC-Chapel Hill Adjunct Faculty, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, NC State University Phone: (919) 966-1352 Email: ahanna(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Air quality modeling and analyses; meteorological modeling and analyses; global and regional climate variability and change.

Dorothy Holland Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1243 Email: dholland(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental identities and action; environmental movements and activism

Donald Hornstein Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law, School of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4133 Email: dhornste(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Risk analysis; transboundary and regional cooperation; economic incentives; institutional design; international rivers; complexity

Jonathan Howes Special Assistant to the Chancellor/Director of Local Relations, University Relations, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1558 Email: jonathan_howes(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental politics and policy

H Kenneth Hudnell Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: 919-933-9507 Email: kenhud(at)email.unc.edu Expertise:

Jeff Hughes Director, Environmental Finance Center, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-4956 Email: jhughes(at)sogmail.unc.edu Expertise: Hughes's research focuses on financing and managing water infrastructure and services (drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater). Recent research projects cover topics such as infrastructure public finance, rates and user fees, financial capability assessment, intergovernmental relations/agreements and demand assessment.

Pamela Jagger Assistant Professor, Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: Email: pjagger(at)unc.edu Expertise: Energy and environmental policy

Ilona Jaspers Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-8657 Email: ilona_jaspers(at)med.unc.edu Expertise: Potential adverse health effects of air pollution exposure

Harvey Jeffries Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7312 Email: harvey(at)unc.edu Expertise: Atmospheric chemistry; air quality modeling and assessment

James Johnson Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, William Rand Kenan Jr., Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-2214 Email: jim_johnson(at)unc.edu Expertise: Urban economics; local economic development

Norris Johnson Professor, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-2389 Email: norris_johnson(at)unc.edu Expertise: Religion and nature; environmental art and aesthetics

Joseph Kalo Graham Kenan Professor of Law, School of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-8518 Email: jjkalo(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Legal and policy issues related to the utilization and conservation of marine and coastal resources.

Rich Kamens Director, Thailand Field Site, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-5452 Email: kamens(at)unc.edu Expertise: Atmospheric chemistry

John Kasarda Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-8201 Email: John_Kasarda(at)unc.edu Expertise: Economies; social change in urban centers; international human resource management and firm performance; economic transformation and the urban underclass

Joel Kingsolver William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-6291 Email: jgking(at)bio.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental physiology; functional morphology; population ecology & evolution

Scott Kirsch Associate Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3874 Email: kirsch(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Historical, cultural, and political geography; science studies; social theory

Alfred Kleinhammes Research Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: 843-2407 Email: kleinham(at)physics.unc.edu Expertise: Physics

Chip Konrad Associate Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3873 Email: cek(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Synoptic climatology and climate change

Lawrence Kupper Associate Chair, Biostatistics, Professor, Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7260 Email: lawrence_kupper(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental biostatistics

Don Lauria Acting Director, International Public Health, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7644 Email: lauria(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Water resources

Jonathan Lees Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0695 Email: jonathan_lees.unc.edu Expertise: Geophysics; volcanology

David Leith Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: 919-966-3851 Email: david_leith(at)unc.edu Expertise: Aerosol physics and the engineering control of airborne pollutants

Paul Leslie Professor, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Professor and Chair, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1564 Email: pwleslie(at)unc.edu Expertise: Human ecology; population biology

Thomas Linden Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Medical Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4078 Email: linden(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental television journalism

Dana Loomis Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7433 Email: dana_loomis(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental epidemiology; exposure assessment

Rick Luettich Director, Institute of Marine Sciences, Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (252) 726-6841, ext.137 Email: rick_luettich(at)unc.edu Expertise: Circulation and transport in coastal waters; storm surge and coastal hazard modeling

Jackie MacDonald Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: 919-966-7892 Email: macdonaj(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental contamination and risk reduction

Barbara MacGregor Research Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919)-843-5045 Email: bmacgreg(at)unc.edu Expertise: Microbial diversity/function

Doug MacLean Professor, Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-4500 Email: maclean(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental ethics; environmental risk management

Christopher Martens Distinguished Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0152, ext.141 Email: cmartens(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Geological oceanography; carbonates; sea level; reefs

Barbara Matilsky Curator of Exhibitions, Ackland Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-3678 Email: matilsky(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental and ecological art

Noreen McDonald Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4781 Email: noreen(at)unc.edu Expertise: Transportation policy, school travel, physical activity, transportation and land use, school transportation, school siting.

Brent McKee Chair, Marine Sciences, Mary and Watts Hill Jr. Distinguished Professor, Marine Sciences, Professor, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-3604 Email: bamckee(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: The overarching focus of my research is on land-ocean interactions and global change. I am interested in the role of Major Rivers (Amazon, Changjiang, Huanghe, Orinoco, Danube, Columbia, Mississippi) in global biogeochemical cycles and global change because rivers are the primary interface between continental and oceanic environments and play a critical role in global cycles such as carbon.

Tim McKeown Professor, Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0399 Email: tim_mckeown(at)unc.edu Expertise: International environmental politics

David McNelis Director, Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economic Development, Research Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Adjunct Professor, Nuclear Engineering, NC State University Phone: (919) 966-9923 Email: mcnelis(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Conventional, alternative and nuclear energy systems and technology; nuclear fuel cycle; nuclear non proliferation and transmutation

Melinda Meade Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3922 Email: meade(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: cultural ecology of population and health, third world development

Thomas Meyer Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-8312 Email: tjmeyer(at)unc.edu Expertise: Solar photochemistry and artificial photosynthesis, fuel cell electrodes, national energy and environmental policy

Casey Miller Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-1024 Email: casey_miller(at)unc.edu Expertise: Groundwater hydrology.

Charles Mitchell Assistant Professor, Biology, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-7745 Email: mitchell(at)bio.unc.edu Expertise: Disease ecology; global change; biological invasions

Aaron Moody Associate Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-5303 Email: aaronm(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Aaron Moody is an environmental geographer with training in biogeography, ecosystem ecology, remote sensing, and statistics. His research addresses socio-environmental systems, emphasizing biological conservation, diversity, and system sustainability, and with particular focus on forested ecosystems and island systems.

David Moreau Chair, Curriculum in the Environment and Ecology, Research Professor, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4756 Email: dmoreau(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Analysis, planning, financing, modeling, policy and evaluation of water and related environmental programs

Gary Nelson Associate Director for Program Development and Training Initiatives, Jordan Institute for Families, Professor, School of Social Work, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4370 Email: gmnelson(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Sustainable Development; Organizational and Community Change; Social Gerontology; Self-Evaluation

Mai Nguyen Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4762 Email: nguyen(at)unc.edu Expertise: Dr. Nguyen's research interests center on issues relating to housing and community development. Within this specialization area, her research examines planning processes and outcomes that affect underserved and disadvantaged populations.

Rachel Noble Associate Professor, Institute for the Environment, Institute of Marine Sciences, Marine Sciences, Director, Morehead City Field Site, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (252) 726-6841, ext.150 Email: rtnoble(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Conducts research in the field of environmental microbiology, with specific focus on development of novel methods and improved approaches for water quality management.

David Owens Gladys H. Coates Distinguished Professor, School of Government, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-4208 Email: owens(at)iogmail.iog.unc.edu Expertise: Land-use law and planning; coastal management

Hans Paerl Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Marine Sciences, William R. Kenan Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (252) 726-6841, ext.133 Email: hpaerl(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Freshwater and marine microbial ecology, nutrient cycling, water quality and algal bloom dynamics

Tamlin Pavelsky Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4239 Email: pavelsky(at)unc.edu Expertise: The intersections between hydrology, satellite remote sensing, and climate change.

James Peacock Kenan Distinguished Professor, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-4106 Email: peacock(at)unc.edu Expertise: International ecology

David Peden Chief, Division of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Director, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, Professor, Pediatrics, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-0768 Email: david_peden(at)med.unc.edu Expertise: Air pollutants; respiratory disease

Robert Peet Professor, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-6942 Email: peet(at)unc.edu Expertise: Plant community & population ecology; biogeography; ecoinformatics

Charles Peterson Distinguished Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (252) 726-6841, ext.130 Email: cpeters(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Marine ecology; population & community processes

Frederic Pfaender Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-3842 Email: gregdad(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Microbial ecology, nutrient exchanges in rivers & estuaries

David Pfennig Professor, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Zachary Taylor Smith Professor, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-6958 Email: dpfennig(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Evolutionary ecology

Karin Pfennig Assistant Professor, Biology, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-5590 Email: kpfennig(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Behavioral ecology & evolution; host-parasite interactions

John Pickles Chair, Geography, Distinguished Professor, Geography, Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Chair of International Studies, International Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3919 Email: JPickles(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Science, nature, and society; theories of nature; mapping and nature; technologies of representation

Michael Piehler Assistant Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Program Head, Estuarine Ecology and Human Health, UNC Coastal Studies Institute Phone: (252) 726-6841 x160 Email: mpiehler(at)unc.edu Expertise: Piehler's research is focused on the coastal land water margin. He is interested in primary productivity and nutrient cycling in shallow coastal ecosystems and understanding the impacts of human activities on these processes.

Robert Pinschmidt Deputy Director, Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience & Technology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-6555 Email: pinschrk(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Functional monomers and polymeric materials, colloid and interface science, energy science and policy

Johnny Randall Adjunct Faculty, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Asst. Dir. for Conservation, North Carolina Botanical Garden, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0522 Email: jrandall(at)unc.edu Expertise: Conservation Biology, Restoration Ecology

Peter Redfield Associate Professor, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-7807 Email: redfield(at)unc.edu Expertise: Science, technology, and society; ecology and colonial history; transnational and non-governmental organizations

Seth Reice Associate Professor, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1375 Email: sreice(at)bio.unc.edu Expertise: Aquatic ecology; disturbance ecology; conservation and sustainable development

Parker Reist Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7305 Email: reists(at)aol.com Expertise: Aerosol technology; air pollution monitoring and control

Jose Rial Director, Environmental Visualization Laboratory, Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-4553 Email: jose_rial(at)unc.edu Expertise: Abrupt climate change, paleoclimatology, computer simulations of past and future climates. Greenland's ice sheet rapid response to global warming. Seismic monitoring of the Jakobshavn glacier. Energy resources and the global energy crisis. Geology and geopolitics of fossil fuels. Energy depletion and global climate change.

Justin Ries Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0269 Email: jries(at)unc.edu Expertise: Global climate change; Paleoceanography; Paleobiology; Carbonate sedimentology; Carbon/Sulfur isotope geochemistry; Biomineralization; Carbon sequestration.

Peter Robinson Director, NOAA Southeast Regional Climate Center, Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3875 Email: pjr(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: A climatologist who investigates the nature and causes of the long-term observed trends in the components of the surface water balance, especially precipitation, and commonly with reference to the southeast United States.

Antonio Rodriguez Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (252) 726-6841 ext. 140 Email: abrodrig(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Dr. Rodriguez's research interests focus on coastal geology with emphasis on environmental response to sea-level rise, climate change, and land-use change at decadal, centennial, and millennial time scales.

Daniel Rodriguez Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, Director, Carolina Transporation Program, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4763 Email: danrod(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Transportation policy, transit planning and strategy, urban spatial structure, land development, transportation and individual behavior, transportation systems, travel behavior, land use planning and urban development

Ivan Rusyn Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-2596 Email: iir(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental agent-related organ injury and carcinogenesis

Edward Samulski Distinguished Professor, Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1561 Email: et(at)unc.edu Expertise: Nanostructures for increased Photo Voltaic efficiencies

Maria Savasta-Kennedy Clinical Professor, School of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-9805 Email: mskenned(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Social and environmental justice, exploring regulatory and market responses to pollution control and climate change

Cynthia Schauer Associate Professor, Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0808 Email: schauer(at)unc.edu Expertise:

Alberto Scotti Associate Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-9454 Email: ascotti(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental fluid dynamics

Carol Seagle Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3785 Email: Carol_Seagle(at)unc.edu Expertise: Sustainable Enterprise

Albert Segars Chair of Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, RBC Centura Distinguished Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-8467 Email: al_segars(at)unc.edu Expertise: Sustainable enterprise and innovation; technology venturing and commercialization

Harvey Seim Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-2083 Email: harvey_seim(at)unc.edu Expertise: I'm a coastal and estuarine physical oceanographer and study the circulation and evolution of the mass field in these two environments. My recent interests lie in the development of coastal ocean observing systems and building connections to other related scientific disciplines.

Marc Serre Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7014 Email: marc_serre(at)unc.edu Expertise: I am intersted in applying space/time geostatistical theory to estimate water quality across the groundwater and surface waters. I have a particular interest in the development of methods using river distances in the estimation of water quality.

Tom Shay Research Assistant Professor, Institute for the Environment, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0173 Email: tom_shay(at)unc.edu Expertise: Small and mesoscale ocean dynamics; coastal ocean processes.

Otto (Chip) Simmons Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: 919-966-7302 Email: osimmons(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: I am interested in the sources, fate, and transport of microbial indicator and pathogenic organisms of public health importance in both fresh and estuarine waters.

Bland Simpson Acting Director, English and Comparative Literature, Director, Creative Writing Program, Professor, English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4007 Email: bsimpson(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Nature writing

Philip Singer Daniel A. Okun Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Director, Drinking Water Research Center, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-3865 Email: phil_singer(at)unc.edu Expertise: Water quality, water treatment, aquatic chemistry. Physical-chemical processes for the purification of water and wastewater, including solid-liquid separation , oxidation, and sorptive processes.

Richard Smith Mark L. Reed Distinguished Professor, Statistics and Operations Research, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-2660 Email: rls(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental statistics

Mark Sobsey Kenan Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7303 Email: mark_sobsey(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental health/public health microbiology and water-sanitation-hygiene

Conghe Song Associate Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-4764 Email: csong(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: My research is primarily focused on extracting vegetation structure from remotely sensed data and integration of remotely sensed information with ecological models to understand the exchanges of energy, carbon and water between the terrestrial ecosystem and the atmosphere in the context of global climate change and land-cover/land-use change.

Jill Stewart Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-7553 Email: jill.stewart(at)unc.edu Expertise: Detection and tracking of pathogens in water. Linkages between ecosystems and human health and well-being. Water and shellfish quality.

Kevin Stewart Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0683 Email: kgstewar(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Structural geology; tectonics, Appalachian geology

Alan Stiven Professor, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Professor Emeritus, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-8316 Email: alan_stiven(at)unc.edu Expertise: Population biology; community ecology

David Stotts Associate Chair of Academics, Computer Science, Professor, Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1833 Email: stotts(at)cs.unc.edu Expertise: Computer-supported cooperative work; hypermedia; software engineering and formal methods; programming languages and concurrency; interoperable distributed systems

Donna Surge Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-1994 Email: donna64(at)unc.edu Expertise: Paleoclimatology, paleoecology

James Swenberg Kenan Distinguished Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Director, Curriculum in Toxicology, Professor, Nutrition, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-6139 Email: james_swenberg(at)unc.edu Expertise:

Joseph Templeton Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Faculty, Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-4575 Email: joetemp(at)unc.edu Expertise: Alkane activation reactions; strategies for hydrogen generation; photochemical energy schemes

Andreas Teske Professor, Institute for the Environment, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1252 Email: teske(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Andreas Teske's research interests are in the microbiology of the sulfur and methane cycle, and in extreme marine microbial communities, especially deep-sea hydrothermal vents and the deep marine subsurface. To understand the fucntioning of a microbial ecosystem in the context of its habitat, and to identify physical and chemical controls that determine the function and composition of the microbial ecosystem, sequencing surveys of functionally and phylogenetically informative genes from pure cultures and mixed environmental samples are integrated with geochemical habitat characteristics.

Meenu Tewari Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-4758 Email: mtewari(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Economic development, including firm and sector-level responses to environmental and labor standards

William Vizuete Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-0693 Email: vizuete(at)unc.edu Expertise: Air quality modeling and atmospheric chemistry

Stephen Walsh Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3867 Email: swalsh(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Land-use and land cover dynamics; spatial modeling and analysis

Alan Weakley Adjunct Assistant Professor, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Herbarium Curator, NC Botanical Garden, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0578 Email: weakley(at)unc.edu Expertise: Plant systematics; floristics; biogeography; conservation biology; bioinformatics

David Weber Director, Hospital Epidemiology and Occupational Health, Professor, Epidemiology, Medicine, Pediatrics, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-2536 Email: dweber1(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Air and water quality effects on health

Gary Wein Adjunct Professor, Curriculum in Environmental Science and Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (828) 526-9938 ext 250 Email: hitrust(at)earthlink.net Expertise: Wetland restoration; land management impacts assessment using remote sensing and GIS technologies; ecological risk assessment; Monitored Natural Attenuation; enhanced attenuation; population dynamics and physiological ecology of herbs.

Howard Weinberg Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-3859 Email: weinberg(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Occurrence, fate, and transport of pollutants; environmental monitoring; drinking water quality; methods for detection of micropollutants including pharmaceuticals, endocrine active chemicals, and disinfection byproducts; drinking water chemistry and treatment

Jack Weiss Adjunct Assistant Professor, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, Research Associate, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-5930 Email: jack_weiss(at)unc.edu Expertise: Biostatistics and quantitative ecology

J. Jason West Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-3928 Email: jjwest(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Air pollution, climate change, modeling of atmospheric transport and chemistry, energy, quantitative environmental policy analysis, and integrated assessment

Stephen Whalen Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-9895 Email: Steve_Whalen(at)unc.edu Expertise: Microbial production and consumption of radiatively and chemically important atmospheric trace gases (CO2, CH4, CO, N2O). Sediment-water and soil-atmosphere exchange of radiatively and chemically active trace gases

Richard Whisnant Professor of Public Law and Government, School of Government, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-9320 Email: richard_whisnant(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental law and policy-making

Peter White Director, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Professor, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-6939 Email: pswhite(at)unc.edu Expertise: Plant population & community ecology, conservation biology

Thomas Whitmore Associate Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3916 Email: whitmore(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Historical agro-ecology of middle America

Dale Whittington Professor, City and Regional Planning, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7645 Email: dale_whittington(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental economics

R. Haven Wiley Professor, Biology, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1340 Email: haven_wiley(at)unc.edu Expertise: Behavioral ecology of vertebrates; avian social behavior

Steven Wing Associate Professor, Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-7416 Email: Steve_Wing(at)unc.edu Expertise: Environmental and occupational epidemiology

Yue Wu Associate Department Chair, Applied Sciences, Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0307 Email: yuewu(at)physics.unc.edu Expertise: hydrogen storage measurements and analysis; physics and chemistry of adsorption in nanomaterials; materials synthesis and measurements for solar energy conversion; oil in porous media

Aijun Xiu Research Associate Professor, Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-2064 Email: aijun(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Environmental modeling

Karin Yeatts Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: 919-966-9899 Email: karin_yeatts(at)unc.edu Expertise: Epidemiology

Zhengyuan Zhu Assistant Professor, Statistics and Operations Research, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-2431 Email: zhuz(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Spatial statistics and applications in environmental science

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