Carolina Environmental Faculty Research Interests

Freshwater systems research

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

Carol Arnosti Professor, Marine Sciences, Associate Department Chair, 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.

Sridhar Balasubramanian Associate Professor, 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

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

James Bartram Director, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: Email: jbartram(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 Director, Center for Sustainable Community Design, Professor, City and Regional Planning, Deputy Director, Institute for the Environment, 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

Greg Characklis Associate Professor, 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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Rachel Noble Associate Professor, Marine Sciences, Institute of Marine Sciences, Institute for the Environment, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Marine and coastal research

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Rick Luettich Professor, Marine Sciences, Director, Institute of 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

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

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

Brent McKee Professor, Institute for the Environment, Mary and Watts Hill Jr. Distinguished Professor, Marine Sciences, Chair, Marine Sciences, 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.

Rachel Noble Director, Morehead City Field Site, Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, Institute for the Environment, Marine Sciences, 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.

Hans Paerl William R. Kenan Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, Professor, Marine Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, 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

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

Michael Piehler 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Andreas Teske Professor, Marine Sciences, Institute for the Environment, 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.

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