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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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Kevin Stewart

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

Expertise:

structural geology, tectonics, Appalachian geology, geochronology, thermobarometry, sedimentology/stratigraphy


Alan Stiven

alan_stiven@unc.edu
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology

Expertise:

ecological genetics of intertidal mussels, population biology and regulation of terrestrial gastropods, impact of highways on selected fauna, small-scale movements in stream fish, population regulation processes


David Stotts

stotts@cs.unc.edu
Professor
Department of Computer Science

Expertise:

computer-supported cooperative work, hypermedia, software engineering and formal methods, programming languages and concurrency, interoperable distributed systems


Bryan Stuart

bryan.stuart@naturalsciences.org
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Biology

Expertise:

biodiversity, systematics and conservation of amphibians and reptiles


Nur Sunar

Nur_Sunar@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Operations
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Expertise:

renewable energy technologies, solar, rooftop solar, sustainability, smart city technologies,Internet of Things, smart meters, residential batteries


Donna Surge

donna64@email.unc.edu
Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences

Expertise:

paleoclimatology, paleoecology, low-temperature geochemistry, archaeology, climatic and ecological archives contained in accretionary, hard-part remains of coastal marine, estuarine, freshwater shellfish and finfish from Holocene archaeological deposits and Neogene fossil deposits


Jason Surratt

surratt@unc.edu
Professor
Department of Chemistry

Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

research, teaching, service, outreach, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, aerosol chemistry, secondary organic aerosol formation, multiphase atmospheric chemistry, emerging contaminants like PFAS


Jayashankar Swaminathan

msj@unc.edu
GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Professor of Operations
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Expertise:

e-business, e-commerce, sustainable enterprise, global business, supply-chain management, operations, emerging markets


Paul Taillie

ptaillie@unc.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Environment

Expertise:

wildlife conservation, vertebrate community ecology, global change, remote sensing


Lindsey Smith Taillie

taillie@unc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Nutrition

Expertise:

climate, food waste, waste


Jessica Tanner

jltanner@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Romance Studies

Expertise:

research, teaching, service, environmental humanities, critical theory, 19th-century and French literature and culture


Hill Taylor

hilltaylor@unc.edu
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature

Expertise:

environmental justice, environmental studies, natural sciences, writing, environmental humanities, climate fiction


Matthew Taylor

mattheta@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature

Expertise:

environmental humanities, critical theory (including posthumanism, biopolitics, science and technology studies, and critical race theory), nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature


Joseph Templeton

joetemp@unc.edu
Francis Preston Venable Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry

Expertise:

organometallic chemistry, alkane activation reactions, strategies for hydrogen generation, photochemical energy schemes


Andreas Teske

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

Expertise:

microbiology of sulfur and methane cycle in extreme marine communities, especially deep-sea hydrothermal vents and the deep marine subsurface, physiology and ecology of uncultured microorganisms, using biogeochemical methods (diagnostic biomarkers, isotope studies) and genomic approaches


Meenu Tewari

mtewari@unc.edu
Professor
Department of City and Regional Planning

Expertise:

political economy of economic and industrial development, poverty alleviation, small firms, and the urban informal economy from a comparative, institutional perspective, economic development, historical and institutional analysis of development processes, microeconomics


Eric Thomas

ethomas@sog.unc.edu
Assistant Director of Development Finance Initiative
School of Government

Expertise:

development finance, sustainable community design, city and regional planning


Allie Thomas

alainna@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of City and Regional Planning

Expertise:

sustainable transportation in developing economies such as China, electric bicycles and family travel


Nancy Thomas

nancy_thomas@med.unc.edu
Irene & Robert Alan Briggaman Distinguished Professor
Department of Dermatology

Expertise:

molecular carcinogenesis, environmental toxicology, molecular epidemiology of melanomas, research translation, biomarkers


David Threadgill

david_threadgill@med.unc.edu
Adjunct professor
Department of Genetics

Expertise:

genetics, cancer genetics