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Renée Bichler

October 18, 2024

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

September 20, 2023

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

June 6, 2023

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

June 6, 2023

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

June 6, 2023

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

Cindy Shea

June 5, 2023

Cindy Shea joined the University in 2001 to found the Sustainability Office. The goal was to catalyze the development and implementation of more sustainable policies, practices, and curricula. Shea co-chaired the development of the UNC System sustainability policy in 2008 … Read more

Brian Naess

May 19, 2023

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

May 19, 2023

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

Rich Kamens

May 19, 2023

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