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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.
Submit an ExpertLeena Nylander-French
leena_french@unc.eduOccupational Exposure Science and Industrial Hygiene Program Director
NC Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
human exposure to toxic substances, inhalation and skin exposure, xenobiotics
Caela O’Connell
caela@email.unc.eduDepartment of Anthropology
environmental anthropology, human-environment relationships, socio-ecological interdependencies, risk, crisis, change, anthropologies of water, economics, disaster, and engagement, interdisciplinary and mixed research methodologies, food and agricultural studies, rural and agrarian communities, the Caribbean and the Americas
Andrew Olshan
andy_olshan@unc.eduUNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Adjunct Professor
Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Barbara Sorenson Hulka Distinguished Professor in Cancer Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
cancer and reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology, including examination of environmental, social, and genetic risk factors
Betsy Olson
eaolson@email.unc.eduDepartment of Geography and Environment
geography, ethics, environment and health, aging
David Owens
owens@sog.unc.eduSchool of Government
land-use law and planning, coastal management, urban growth management, planning legislation
Hans Paerl
hans_paerl@unc.eduDepartment of Earth Marine and Environmental Sciences Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor
Institute for Marine Sciences
freshwater and marine microbial ecology, nutrient cycling, water quality, algal bloom dynamics, atmospheric nitrogen deposition as a new nitrogen source supporting estuarine and coastal eutrophication, modeling, phytoplankton
John Papanikolas
john_papanikolas@unc.eduDepartment of Chemistry
ultrafast spectroscopy, ultrafast microscopy, solar energy conversion
Tamlin Pavelsky
pavelsky@unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
research, teaching, service, hydrology, climate, remote sensing
David Peden
david_peden@med.unc.eduCenter for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research
School of Medicine Harry S. Andrews Distinguished Professor
Department of Pediatrics
air pollutants, respiratory disease
Robert Peet
peet@unc.eduDepartment of Biology
plant community and population ecology, biogeography, ecoinformatics, vegetation classification, vegetation of the Carolinas
Shane Peterson
shrpeter@unc.eduDepartment of English and Comparative Literature
environmental studies
Karin Pfennig
kpfennig@unc.eduDepartment of Biology
research, ecology, evolution, behavior, biodiversity
David Pfennig
dpfennig@unc.eduDepartment of Biology
evolution, ecology, development
John Pickles
Department of Geography and Environment
global production networks, European economic and social spaces particularly post-socialist transformations in Central Europe and Euro-Med Neighborhood policies in Southern Europe, cultural economies of maps and mapping, counter-mapping, and the use of maps in social movements, science, nature, society, technology of representation
Michael F. Piehler
mpiehler@email.unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences Chief Sustainability Officer and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Sustainability
UNC Chapel-Hill Director
UNC Institute for the Environment
research, service, teaching, outreach, coastal ecology, biogeochemistry, limnology
Joseph Pinto
joepinto@unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
research, atmospheric chemistry and physics, exposure assessment, measurement methods
Morgan Pitelka
mpitelka@unc.eduDepartment of History
late medieval history, early modern Japan, material culture, environmental history, urban history
Megan F. Plenge
mfplenge@unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
geoscience, student self-efficacy, instructional practices
Danielle Purifoy
danielle.purifoy@unc.eduDepartment of Geography and Environment
black geographies, environmental justice, uneven development, U.S. South
Cynthia Radding
radding@email.unc.eduDepartment of History Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies
Department of History
Latin American colonial history with focus on the intersections between environmental and ethnographic history