Brian Naess is a GIS analyst and lecturer and has been with UNC’s Institute for the Environment since 2001. Naess is an expert in GIS and an experienced Python programmer, comfortable working with vector and raster data and developing complex … Read more

Peggy Mullin is the lead research technician on the NOAA “Keeping it in the System” Effects of Sea Level Rise project focused on using dredged sediment to restore degraded marshes in areas affected by sea level rise. She is also … Read more

Retired environmental sciences and engineering professor Rich Kamens “has implemented, under the sponsorship of the Institute of the Environment at UNC, a UNC undergraduate student exchange/research program in Thailand and currently serves as its field site director. The purpose of … Read more

Dana Brown Haine is the K-12 science education manager for the Center for Public Engagement with Science. With a background in the biological sciences, Haine enjoys weaving her life science expertise into her passion for educating others on critical environmental … Read more

Kathleen Gray leads the Center for Public Engagement with Science (CPES), a hub for community engagement and informal science education in the UNC Institute for the Environment. She manages an award-winning team of nine full-time staff as well as part-time … Read more

Neasha B. Graves has built her career around educating vulnerable populations, with particular focus on environmental health and adult literacy. In her role as the environmental health outreach manager in the in the UNC Center for Public Engagement with Science … Read more

Andrew George is the Center for Public Engagement with Science’s (CPES) community engagement coordinator at the Institute for the Environment, where he works to support long- and short-term research relationships between communities and scientists, and responds to community requests for … Read more

In his teaching, Greg Gangi conveys a complex understanding of environmental challenges and explores innovative solutions. His teaching extends beyond the classroom as he leads students to many countries to learn firsthand about global change and innovation. He organized several … Read more

Melanie Elliott is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. Her academic focus was the physics of renewable energy systems, and her research involved a case study on the use of energy storage for the electrical grid in North Carolina. Her paper … Read more

Lindsay Dubbs is a research associate professor for the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a dual appointment at the Coastal Studies Institute at East Carolina University. She is a biogeochemist … Read more