Faculty and Staff
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Chair, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology (919) 843-3468 --Groundwater discharge to the ocean --Groundwater-surface water interactions --Wetland hydrology --Application of geochemical and radionuclide tracers for quantifying and understanding environmental processes |
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Director of Graduate Studies
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Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences Phone: (252) 726-6841 x160 --Primary productivity and N cycling in the coastal land-water interface --Estuarine habitat response to rising water levels --Effects of tidal flow N cycling and primary productivity in coastal streams --Nutrient cycling and primary productivity in shallow lakes |
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Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Amy Cooke Lecturer, Curriculum for the Environment and EcologyUNC–Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0622 Email: acooke@email.unc.edu |
Curriculum Manager
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Kathleen McNeil Administrative & Student Services Manager, Curriculum for the Environment and EcologyUNC–Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-1270 Email: kamcneil@email.unc.edu |
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Undergraduate Advisors
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Geoffrey Bell Lecturer, Curriculum for the Environment and EcologyUNC- Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 843-9713 Email: gwbell@email.unc.edu |
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Amy Cooke Lecturer, Curriculum for the Environment and EcologyDirector, Undergraduate Studies UNC- Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-0622 Email: acooke@email.unc.edu |
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Greg Gangi Research Assistant Professor, Associate Director for Education, Institute for the Environment Phone: (919) 962-9805 --Conservation --Environmental Policy
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CEE Faculty and Instructors
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Professor, Public Policy Phone: (919) 843-5011 --U.S. and comparative environmental policy --Environmental consequences of public policies --Environmental management by business |
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Associate Department Chair Phone: (919) 962-5754 Marine sciences |
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Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor, Geography UNC–Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 962-3921 Watershed hydrology; ecosystem water; carbon and nutrient cycling; GISci |
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Assistant Professor & McMillan Fellow, Geological Sciences Phone: (919) 962-0675 Earth surface processes and tectonics |
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Geoffrey Bell Lecturer, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology |
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Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning UNC–Chapel Hill Email: bendor@unc.edu --Regional simulation modeling of urban growth --Developer decision-making in wetland mitigation --Habitat fragmentation --Dynamic effects of wetland mitigation on no net loss --Agent-based fisheries modeling |
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Chair, Geological Sciences Phone: (919) 962-0699 Low-temperature geochemistry |
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Director, Center for Sustainable Community Design Professor, City and Regional Planning UNC–Chapel Hill Email: pberke@email.unc.edu --Sustainable development and land use planning in New Zealand --Ecolgoical impacts and theories of urban form --Natural hazard mitigation in development and developing countries --State and local land use and environmental policy |
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Research Professor, Biostatistics UNC–Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-1738 Economic demography; population, development & the environment |
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Associate Professor, Marine Sciences UNC–Chapel Hill Email: john_bruno@unc.edu --Role of species diversity in driving ecosystem processes --Metapopulation dynamics and dispersal in coastal plant communities --Ecology of coral disease --Effects of global change on coral reef health --Invasion biology |
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Assistant Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: buckley@bio.unc.edu --Ecological forecasting and hindcasting --Mechanistic models of species' ranges --Physiological, ecological, and evolutionary predictors of climate change impacts --Energetic and ecological constraints on abundance and diversity |
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Chair, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology Phone: (919) 843-3468 Marine sciences |
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Professor, Geological Sciences UNC–Chapel Hill Email: clams@email.unc.edu --Evolutionary studies of molluscan shell microstructure and ecology --Mineralogical evolution of the Bivalvia --Modern and fossil endolithic communities --Coastal Plain biostratigraphy --Triassic vertebrate paleontology |
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Assistant Professor, Geography Department of Geography UNC-Chapel Hill Email: chenxd@email.unc.edu |
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Amy Cooke Lecturer, Curriculum for the Environment and EcologyDirector, Undergraduate Studies UNC–Chapel Hill Email: acooke@email.unc.edu |
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Professor, Anthropology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: crumley@unc.edu --Historical landscape ecology --Social, political, and economic elements of land use practice --Ethnography, ethnohistory, and archaeology of Europe --Global environmental change |
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Kenan Professor, Sociology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: entwisle@unc.edu --Population, environment, and land use in Northeast Thailand --Social networks and migration --Linked social and spatial data; confidentiality issues |
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Associate Professor, Geography UNC–Chapel Hill Email: jflorin@email.unc.edu --American agriculture --Cultural geography |
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Cecil Frost Adjunct Faculty, EcologyUNC–Chapel Hill Coordinator, NC Plant Conservation Program (Ret.) NC Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Email: cecil.frost@earthlink.net --Presettlement fire regimes of the United States --Methods for mapping presettlement fire regimes --Methods for reconstructing presettlement vegetation --Fire relations of rare species --Using landscape fire ecology for restoration and management of public lands |
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Greg Gangi Research Assistant Professor, Associate Director for Education, Institute for the EnvironmentUNC-Chapel Hill Email: ggangi@email.unc.edu --Conservation --Environmental Policy |
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Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: pgensel@bio.unc.edu --Floristics, ecology, and geography of Paleozoic plants --Origin and diversification of plant lineages --Phylogenetic relationships of plant groups |
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Assistant Professor, Geography Phone: (919) 962-3876 Population, environment and development |
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William Gray Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering Phone: (919) 966-3013 Subsurface hydrology, porous media physics |
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Assistant Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: hurlbert@bio.unc.edu --Geographic patterns of species richness --Taxonomic and functional diversity and turnover --Broad-scale avian monitoring --Ecoinformatics |
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| Pamela Jagger Assistant Professor, Public Policy Email: pjagger@email.unc.edu The interface between natural resource management policies and outcomes for rural livelihoods and sustainable resource management in the low income tropics |
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Nikhil Kaza Assistant Professor, City and Regional PlanningUNC–Chapel Hill Email: nkaza@email.unc.edu |
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William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: jgking@bio.unc.edu --Selection and evolution of morphological and physiological plasticity --Nutrient physiology and evolutionary ecology of feeding and growth in caterpillars --Patterns of phenotypic selection and fitness surfaces for quantitative traits in natural populations --Functional morphology and evolutionary ecology of flight and predator escape in butterflies |
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Associate Professor, Geography UNC–Chapel Hill Email: cek@email.unc.edu --Relationships between atmospheric patterns (e.g. circulation and moisture) and surface weather events (e.g. heavy rainfall and cold air outbreaks) --Influences and interactions of physical processes and patterns across scales (i.e. planetary, synoptic, and mesoscale) --Synoptic patterns and physical processes that lead to precipitation over the southeastern U.S. |
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Professor, Anthropology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: pwleslie@unc.edu --Demography and reproduction: biosocial determinants of fertility; environmental influences on reproductive function; modeling fertility decisions and reproductive strategies --Population biology/population genetics: interaction among social, demographic, and genetic structures of human populations; modeling complex mating structures --Sub-Saharan African pastoralism: population-environment interactions; demographic causes and consequences of changing subsistence patterns; cultural and biological responses to environmental fluctuations and uncertainty |
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Professor, Philosophy Phone: (919) 843-4500 Environmental ethics, environmental values, decision making |
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Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences Phone: (919) 843-3473 Phytoplankton ecophysiology and molecular biology |
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Christopher S. Martens William B. Aycock Distinguished Professor Phone: (919) 962-0152 Biogeochemical processes driven by the decomposition of naturally-occuring organic matter in marine and estuarine sediments |
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Associate Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: mitchell@bio.unc.edu --Cause and consequences of parasite species diversity --Joint effects of global change and biological invasions on insect-vectored generalist pathogens. --The role of pathogens in competition between introduced and native grasses. --Microbial plant pathogens as modulators of global change. --Feedbacks between host community structure and pathogen spread. --Implications for sustainability and conservation. |
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Associate Professor, Geography UNC–Chapel Hill Email: aaronm@email.unc.edu --Ecological and environmental factors controlling the distribution of plant communities --Patterns of plant species distribution on the California Channel Islands and in the chaparral of the Santa Ynez Mountains --Temporal dynamics of vegetation productivity in southern California and the role of precipitation in these dynamics |
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David Moreau Research Professor (919) 962-4756 Water resource management --Urban watershed planning |
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William R. Kenan Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences UNC–Chapel Hill Email: hpaerl@email.unc.edu --Sources of excess nitrogen in river, estuary, and nearshore waters --Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on phytoplankton dynamics --Environmental controls of algal blooms --Physiological controls of nitrogen fixation --Phytoplankton ecophysiological |
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Sam Pearsall Adjunct Faculty, Ecology SE Land, Water & Wildlife Program Manager Environmental Defense Fund Raleigh, NC Phone: (919) 881-2938Email:spearsall@edf.org --Adaptive management of flows on the lower Roanoke River --Conservation planning for complex, human-influenced landscapes --Ecosystem management and resilience in the context of global (e.g., climate) change |
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Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: peet@unc.edu --Secondary succession and forest dynamics on the Carolina Piedmont --EcoInformatics: Analysis of patterns of species co-occurrence in using large databases --Vegetation of the southeasten U.S. --Determinants of species diversity of plant communities |
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Assistant Professor, Geography Email: lpersha@email.unc.edu Conservation and development, social ecological systems, institutional analysis, environmental governance, forest ecology, political ecology |
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Alumni Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences UNC–Chapel Hill Email: cpeters@email.unc.edu --The dynamics of the Sargassum ecosystem in the Gulf Stream off North Carolina --Organizational processes in the Northern Gulf of Alaska ecosystem --Causes of community patterns in space and time at deep-sea hydrothermal vents --The ecosystem functions of oyster reef habitat, particularly in North Carolina's estuarine and coastal waters --Methods for expanding the scientific basis for ecosystem management in the coastal zone |
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Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering UNC–Chapel Hill Email: gregdad@email.unc.edu --Biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons by patuxent aquifer microbial communities --Biodegradation of detergent chemicals in estuarine and near-shore marine environments --Effect of sorption on the biotransformation of pollutants |
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Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: dpfennig@email.unc.edu --Ecological causes of speciation and adaptive radiation --The role of developmental plasticity in evolution --Evolution and development of ecologically relevant traits --Kin selection and the levels of selection in evolution |
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Assistant Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: kpfennig@email.unc.edu --Behavioral facilitation of population and evolutionary diversification --Mating behavior and its role in ecological and evolutionary processes --Parasite influence on and evolutionary response to host behaviors and courtship traits |
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Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences Director, Graduate Studies UNC–Chapel Hill Program Head, Estuarine Ecology and Human Health UNC Coastal Studies Institute Email: mpiehler@unc.edu --Primary productivity and N cycling in the coastal land-water interface --Estuarine habitat response to rising water levels --Effects of tidal flow N cycling and primary productivity in coastal streams --Nutrient cycling and primary productivity in shallow lakes |
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Johnny Randall Adjunct Faculty, EcologyAsst. Dir. for Conservation, North Carolina Botanical Garden UNC–Chapel Hill Email: jrandall@unc.edu --Invasive exotic plant species ecology --Rare plant biology --Plant reproductive ecology --Plant systematics |
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Associate Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: sreice@bio.unc.edu Stream Community and Ecosystem Ecology |
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Jose Rial Professor, Geological Sciences Phone: (919) 966-4553 Abrupt climate change, dynamic paleoclimatology --Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and complexity in natural systems |
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Associate Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: servedio@email.unc.edu --Speciation and the evolution of premating isolation --Sexual selection and the evolution of mate choice --Evolution of behavior |
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Assistant Professor, Geography UNC–Chapel Hill Email: csong@email.unc.edu --Remote sensing & GIS --Ecological modeling --Forest ecosystems --Digital image processing |
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Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences UNC–Chapel Hill Email: donna64@unc.edu Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, Low-Temperature Geochemistry |
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Associate Professor, Marine Sciences UNC–Chapel Hill Email: teske@email.unc.edu --Microbial ecology, microbiology of hydrothermal vents and the marine subsurface --The microbial sulfur cycle --Bacteria and archaea of extreme marine environments |
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Research Assistant Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: jumbanho@email.unc.edu --Dynamics of species interactions webs --Host-parasutoid interactions --Plant-fungal interactions --Spatial modeling; cellular automata, and agent-based models |
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Professor, Geography UNC–Chapel Hill Email: swalsh@email.unc.edu --Population-environment interactions --Land use, land cover dynamics --Spatial modeling; cellular automata and agent-based models --Alpine treeline ecotone --Spatial digital technologies for scale, pattern, and process relationships |
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Alan Weakley Herbarium Curator, NC Botanical GardenAdjunct Assistant Professor, Ecology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: weakley@unc.edu --Flora of the southeastern United States --Biogeography of North America and patterns of plant endemism --Plant community classification in North America and the West Indies --Community mapping on U.S. federal lands --Theory and practice of conservation inventory and planning |
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Jack Weiss Adjunct Assistant Professor, Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology Phone: (919) 962- 5930 Email: jack_weiss@unc.eduBiostatistics and quantitative ecology Courses Ecology 562 (Spring 2007). Statistics for Environmental Scientists. Ecology 562 (Spring 2010). Statistics for Environmental Scientists. Ecology 563 (Spring 2006). Statistical analysis in Ecology and Evolution. Ecology 563 (Fall 2008). Statistical analysis in Ecology and Evolution. Ecology 563 (Fall 2010). Statistical analysis in Ecology and Evolution. |
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Colin West Assistant Professor, AnthropologyUNC–Chapel Hill Email: ctw@email.unc.edu Human ecology of global change |
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Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering UNC–Chapel Hill Email: Steve_Whalen@unc.edu --Nutrient (N,C) cycling dynamics in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems --The effects of nutrient (N,C) cycling dynamics on primary productivity and greenhouse gas (N2O, CH4, CO2) exchange with the atmosphere |
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Professor, Biology Director, North Carolina Botanical Garden UNC–Chapel Hill Email: pswhite@unc.edu --Scale dependence in species richness; the distance decay of similarity as an aspect of the distribution of biological diversity --The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Great Smoky Mountains National Park Invasive species, rare plants, and natural area conservation and restoration --Pattern and process in Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
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Professor, Biology UNC–Chapel Hill Email: haven_wiley@unc.edu --Evolutionary adaptations in the vocal communication of birds --Mating systems and sexual selection in birds --Individual recognition in the social behavior of birds --Physiological and behavioral mechanisms of dominance hierarchies |
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Erika Wise Assistant Professor, Geography Phone: (919) 843-4762 Climatology and dendrochronolgy |
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