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Zac Adelman Research Associate, Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-2206 Email: zac(at)unc.edu Expertise: Air quality and emissions modeling; gas-phase atmospheric chemistry Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health; Policy, Planning and Economic Development

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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Jim Alty Director, Facilities Services, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0761/2263 Email: jim.alty(at)fac.unc.edu Expertise: Facilities Operations and Maintenance; Energy Consumption; Landscape Services Energy and Environment Specialty: Greening the Campus

Richard Andrews Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor and Chair, Public Policy, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Ecology, City and Regional Planning, Fellow, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Policy, Planning and Economic Development

Larry Band Director Apointee, Institute for the Environment, Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor, Geography, Director Apointee, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Larry Benninger Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0699 Email: lbenning(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Low-temperature geochemistry Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment, and Health

Philip Berke Interim Director, Institute for the Environment, Director, Center for Sustainable Community Design, Interim Director, Institute for the Environment, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health; Policy, Planning and Economic Development

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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Gerald Cecil Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-7209 Email: cecil(at)physics.unc.edu Expertise: astrophysics; energy conversion technology assessment; personal energy audits/powerdown tactics; quantification of near-term peak oil induced energy transition and mitigation of its effects Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

Thomas Clegg V. Lee Bounds Distinguished Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-8168 Email: clegg(at)physics.unc.edu Expertise: production and use of intense spin-polarized ion beams and dense polarized targets; production of beams of nuclear particles; detector systems and shielding for nuclear radiation; measurements of rates of nuclear reactions Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

Doug Crawford-Brown Director, Cambridge (United Kingdom) Field Site, Institute for the Environment, Institute for the Environment, Director Emeritus, Institute for the Environment, Director, Cambridge (United Kingdom) Field Site, Institute for the Environment, Institute for the Environment, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment, and Health

Jeff Dangl John N. Couch Professor, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-5624 Email: dangl(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Plant-Microbe Interactions; Plant Growth Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment, and Health

Joseph DeSimone William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Director, Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience & Technology, NSF Sci. & Tech. Center for Env. Resp. Solvents and Processes, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences; Energy, Environment and Health

Carolyn Elfland Associate Vice Chancellor, Campus Services, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-7244 Email: carolyn_elfland(at)unc.edu Expertise: Manage the Facilities Services and Energy Services departments, Sustainability Officer for the University, infrastructure planning including renewable energy sources and high performance building guidelines for Carolina North Energy and Environment Specialty: Greening the Campus

M. Gregory Forest Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor, Mathematics, Co-Director, Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience & Technology, Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-9606 Email: forest(at)amath.unc.edu Expertise: Hydrodynamic and Diffusive Transport in Environmental Media; Environmental Health--Modeling of Lung Disease and Environmental Impact Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences; Energy, Environment & Health

Allen Glazner Professor and Chair, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0689 Email: afg(at)unc.edu Expertise: Volcanism; long-term geochemical cycling Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

William Gray Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-3013 Email: graywg(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: porous media physics; environmental modeling Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment, and Health

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. Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment, and Health

Jingfang Huang Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics Program, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-9621 Email: huang(at)amath.unc.edu Expertise: Numerical methods for mathematical models in energy, environment and health Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences; Energy, Environment & Health

Alan Jones George and Alice Welsh Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-6932 Email: alan_jones(at)unc.edu Expertise: Plant Growth Optimization and Sugar Sensing by Plant Cells Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment, and Health

Hugon Karwowski Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-7206 Email: khugon(at)physics.unc.edu Expertise: nuclear physics and technology, applications in warfare and industry Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

Joseph Kieber Professor, Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-2144 Email: jkieber(at)unc.edu Expertise: Signaling pathways; regulating plant growth and development Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

David McNelis Research Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Director, Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economic Development, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

Charles Mitchell Assistant Professor, Biology, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health; Energy Sciences

Jose Rial Professor, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Director, Environmental Visualization Laboratory, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-4553 Email: jose_rial(at)unc.edu Expertise: Seismic imaging of geothermal reservoirs; renewable energy resources; computer modeling of climate change; paloeclimatology; global warming Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Peter Robinson Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Director, Southeast Regional Climate Center, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3875 Email: pjr(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Climatology; climate change & impacts Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Daniel Rodriguez Director, Carolina Transporation Program, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Policy, Planning, and Economic Development

Edward Samulski Professor, Chemistry, Distinguished Professor, Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1561 Email: et(at)unc.edu Expertise: Macromolecular Chemistry and Dynamics; Liquid Crystals Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

Uma Shankar Research Associate, Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-2102 Email: ushankar(at)unc.edu Expertise: Atmospheric particulate matter chemistry and microphysics; air quality-climate interactions; development and evaluation of advanced simulation models for air quality and its climate impacts Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Cindy Pollock Shea Director, Sustainability Office, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-5251 Email: cpshea(at)fac.unc.edu Expertise: High performance buildings, Demand side energy management, Sustainable policies, practices and curriculum Energy and Environment Specialty: Greening the Campus

Conghe Song Associate Professor, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-4764 Email: csong(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Remote Sensing of Vegetation; Ecological Modeling; Geographic Information Systems Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Joseph Templeton Professor, Chemistry, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Marcey Waters Associate Professor, Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-6522 Email: mlwaters(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Protein mimics; Biomolecular interactions; Biomimetic scaffolds for artificial photosynthesis Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

Francisco Werner Professor, Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0269 Email: cisco_werner(at)unc.edu Expertise: Oceanography; numerical modeling; coastal circulation; physical-biological interactions in marine ecosystems; oceanic biogeochemical cycles; fisheries oceanography Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy, Environment and Health

Yue Wu Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Physics & Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill Associate Department Chair, Applied Sciences, 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 Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences

Wei You Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-6197 Email: wyou(at)email.unc.edu Expertise: Organic Solar Cells; Hybrid Solar Cells; Molecular Electronics; Organic Spintronics Energy and Environment Specialty: Energy Sciences