Renée Bichler joined the UNC Institute for the Environment as a research associate in October 2024 where she works as a remote sensing specialist in the Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development (CEMPD). Bichler will support studies regarding the … Read more

Angel Hsu is an associate professor of public policy and the environment at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is founder/director of the Data-Driven EnviroLab, an interdisciplinary research group that applies data-driven approaches to pressing environmental issues. Her research … Read more

Sarah Yelton is the environmental education manager for the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Center for Public Engagement with Science. Much of her work centers around building partnerships with formal classroom teachers and informal science educators to incorporate current environmental … Read more

Troy Walton is a senior research associate at the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Carolina Drone Lab. Before coming to IE, Walton partnered with UNC on a U.S. Department of Defense environmental project and has co-instructed remote sensing classes at … Read more

Steve Wall has over twenty years of experience working on legal and environmental policy issues at the state and federal levels.  Since 2014, Wall has worked as a policy research associate with UNC’s Institute for the Environment. His work at … Read more

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

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