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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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lizadams@email.unc.eduUNC Institute for the Environment's Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development
air-quality, high-performance computing, atmospheric-chemistry, atmospheric-modeling, aws, cloud-computing, cmaq, mpi, parallelcluster, scientific-computing, netCDF
Neil Alexis
neil_alexis@med.unc.eduCenter for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology (CEMALB) Professor
Department of Pediatrics
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.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
chemical oceanography, aquatic biogeochemical processes
Tessa Andermann
tessa_andermann@med.unc.eduSchool of Medicine
infectious diseases of immunocompromised patients
Richard Andrews
pete.andrews@unc.eduUNC Institute for the Environment Professor Emeritus
Public Policy
environmental policy, energy policy, policy instruments, incentives
Lorraine Aragon
aragon2@email.unc.eduDepartment of Anthropology
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.eduKenan-Flagler Business School
energy project finance
Javier Arce-Nazario
jarce@live.unc.eduDepartment of Geography and Environment
landscape history, GIS, remote sensing, translational geosciences, critical physical geography, water, sustainability
David Ardia
ardia@email.unc.eduSchool of Law
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.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
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.eduNorth Carolina Collaboratory
project management, program management, research administration, science communication, policy
Sarav Arunachalam
sarav@email.unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Deputy Director
Institute for the Environment Research Professor
Institute for the Environment
emissions, air quality modeling, transportation, public health, atmospheric chemistry, source apportionment, environmental policy
Christy Avery
christy_avery@unc.eduDepartment of Epidemiology
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.eduDepartment of Chemistry
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.eduKenan-Flagler Business School
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.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
exposure, health, air pollutants, occupational hazards, drinking water disinfectants and their by-products, agents that generate reactive oxygen species
John Bane
bane@unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
physical oceanography, coastal meteorology, air-sea interactions
Jamie Bartram
jbartram@email.unc.eduThe Water Institute at UNC Professor Emeritus
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
global health, health administration health behavior, health economics, health policy, infectious diseases, public health leadership, rural health, water
Karsten Baumann
kbaumann@unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
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.eduOffice of Global Health Education Director
UNC Program in Nicaragua Professor
Department of Family Medicine Professor
Department of Epidemiology
childhood diarrhea, evaluation of vaccine effectiveness