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About our Experts

The Carolina environmental expert listing consists of all researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill engaged in educational, research and/or community engagement activities related to environmental science and studies. They collectively make up the interdisciplinary community of environmental scholars on campus, providing a group to which students, faculty, administrators and outside organizations can turn to for expertise in environmental education, research and/or community engagement. Learn more about Carolina’s Environmental Programs.

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Elizabeth Adams

lizadams@email.unc.edu
Research Associate
UNC Institute for the Environment's Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development

Expertise:

air-quality, high-performance computing, atmospheric-chemistry, atmospheric-modeling, aws, cloud-computing, cmaq, mpi, parallelcluster, scientific-computing, netCDF


Neil Alexis

neil_alexis@med.unc.edu
Research Professor
Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology (CEMALB)

Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Expertise:

examining health effects of air pollution in individuals with pre-existing airways disease, underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms of airways diseases (asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis)


Mark Alperin

alperin@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences

Expertise:

chemical oceanography, aquatic biogeochemical processes


Tessa Andermann

tessa_andermann@med.unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine

Expertise:

infectious diseases of immunocompromised patients


Lorraine Aragon

aragon2@email.unc.edu
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Expertise:

anthropology of religion, intellectual property law, and arts production, (post)colonialism, ethnic minorities and state relations, global connections and heritage nationalism, migration and conflict, language and media, subsistence and exchange, ecology and relationality, health, gendered experiences, Southeast Asia, Indonesia


Stephen Arbogast

stephen_arbogast@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Professor of the Practice
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Expertise:

energy project finance


Javier Arce-Nazario

jarce@live.unc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Environment

Expertise:

landscape history, GIS, remote sensing, translational geosciences, critical physical geography, water, sustainability


David Ardia

ardia@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor
School of Law

Expertise:

computer/internet law, copyright law, cyberspace law, e-commerce/technology issues, freedom of speech, intellectual property, media law, privacy law, trademark law


Carol Arnosti

arnosti@email.unc.edu
Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences

Expertise:

organic carbon cycling by microbial communities in marine sediments and seawater, structural characterizations and transformations of macromolecular organic matter, development/application of novel methods to measure microbial enzyme activities, relationships between microbial community composition and function


Greer Arthur

gkarthur@unc.edu
Research Director
North Carolina Collaboratory

Expertise:

project management, program management, research administration, science communication, policy


Sarav Arunachalam

sarav@email.unc.edu
Adjunct Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Deputy Director
Institute for the Environment

Research Professor
Institute for the Environment

Expertise:

emissions, air quality modeling, transportation, public health, atmospheric chemistry, source apportionment, environmental policy


Christy Avery

christy_avery@unc.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology

Expertise:

cardiovascular epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, pharmacogenomics, and translation-oriented methods to assess the burden of cardiovascular diseases in diverse populations, epidemiologic data analysis, population burden measures in cardiovascular disease epidemiology


Erin Baker

erinmsb@unc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry

Expertise:

how the environment affects human health, molecular biomarkers, analytical separations, high throughput screening, mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometry


Sridhar Balasubramanian

sridhar_balasubramanian@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Professor of Marketing and Roy and Alice H. Richards Bicentennial Distinguished Scholar
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Expertise:

social and environmental factors that affect interest in and payment for clean water at the household level, marketing strategy and technology strategy, customer-focus, innovation and growth strategy, services design and marketing, e-business, customer relationship management, game theory, management of competition


Louise Ball

lmball@unc.edu
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

exposure, health, air pollutants, occupational hazards, drinking water disinfectants and their by-products, agents that generate reactive oxygen species


John Bane

bane@unc.edu
Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences

Expertise:

physical oceanography, coastal meteorology, air-sea interactions


Jamie Bartram

jbartram@email.unc.edu
Former Director
The Water Institute at UNC

Professor Emeritus
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

global health, health administration health behavior, health economics, health policy, infectious diseases, public health leadership, rural health, water


Karsten Baumann

kbaumann@unc.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

research, air quality, atmospheric chemistry and transport, source-receptor relationships, field measurements, lab experiments, oxidative potential of air pollutants, human exposure, health risks, AP source characterization, biomass burning emissions


Sylvia Becker-Dreps

sbd@email.unc.edu
Director
Office of Global Health Education

Director
UNC Program in Nicaragua

Professor
Department of Family Medicine

Professor
Department of Epidemiology

Expertise:

childhood diarrhea, evaluation of vaccine effectiveness


Aysenil Belger

abelger@med.unc.edu
Professor
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

Director
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Expertise:

research, human cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience