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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 ExpertKenneth Lohmann
klohmann@email.unc.eduDepartment of Biology
behavior, sensory biology, neuroethology, and conservation of marine animals, the navigation of long-distance ocean migrants such as sea turtles, salmon, spiny lobsters, and elephant seals, magnetic field perception, magnetic maps, and use of the Earth’s magnetic field in animal navigation, geomagnetic imprinting and natal homing in sea turtles and salmon, applications of sensory ecology and movement ecology to conservation biology, neuroethology of marine invertebrates, marine megafauna of the Galapagos Islands
René Lopez
rln@physics.unc.eduDepartment of Applied Physical Sciences
optical materials, nanofabrication, photovoltaic devices
Adam Lovelady
adamlovelady@sog.unc.eduUNC School of Government
zoning, land subdivision, transportation, renewable energy, and historic preservation, city and county planning, historic districts, land use regulation, subdivision regulation
Nichola Lowe
nlowe@unc.eduDepartment of City and Regional Planning
economic development
Kun Lu
kunlu@unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
health effects of environmental exposure and individual response by integrating the microbiome, exposome, omics profiling, and biomarker development, environmental chemicals, heavy metals, pesticide
Rick Luettich
rick_luettich@unc.eduCenter for Natural Hazards Resilience Director
Institute of Marine Sciences Distinguished Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
circulation and transport in coastal waters, storm surge, coastal hazard modeling, physical processes in coastal systems, natural hazards resilience
Jeffrey Macdonald
jeffrey_Macdonald@med.unc.eduJoint Department of Biomedical Engineering
regenerative medicine, omic sciences, metabolomics, liver tissue engineering, environmental metabolomics, in vivo NMR spectroscopy
Douglas MacKay
dmackay@email.unc.eduPublic Policy
justice of economic inequality – both domestic and global, the ethics of immigration policy, biomedical research, policy research, health policy, welfare policy
Douglas MacLean
maclean@unc.eduDepartment of Philosophy
environmental ethics, environmental risk management, moral and political theory, environmental policy
Scott Madry
madrys@email.unc.eduDepartment of Anthropology
spatial analysis, remote sensing, geographic information systems, GPS, modeling, Old World prehistory
Musa Manga
mmanga@email.unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
environmental engineering and microbiology tools to identify low-cost, scalable, and sustainable interventions to interrupt transmission of excreta-related diseases to protect public health and well-being
Adrian Marchetti
amarchetti@unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences Associate Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
biogeochemical evolution of phytoplankton in marine environments, aquatic biogeochemical processes, microbial ecology and molecular biology, biological oceanography and marine ecology, phytoplankton ecophysiology and molecular biology
Christopher Martens
cmartens@email.unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
research, teaching, biogeochemical cycling, carbon and nutrient element cycling, time-series measurements in the deep sea using in situ multi-sensor systems
Mario Marzan
mmarzan@email.unc.eduDepartment of Art and Art History
exploring ideas of deconstruction and reconstruction as means by which to interpret cultures from the Caribbean, Gulf Basin, and U.S. South, migratory aesthetics, walking as an aesthetic practice, relationships of place to cultural identity, performative endurance and the expanding field of pilgrimage studies
Steve May
skmay@email.unc.eduDepartment of Communication
identity, ethical awareness, social responsibility, transparency, organizational communication
Noreen McDonald
noreen@unc.eduDepartment of City and Regional Planning
transportation planning, how infrastructure investments and technology changes influence travel and the downstream impacts on road safety, public health, energy demand, city form
Brent McKee
bamckee@email.unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
research, teaching, service, outreach, rivers, lakes, coastal ocean processes and response to global change
Rich McLaughlin
rmm@email.unc.eduDepartment of Mathematics
experimental and theoretical fluid dynamics, turbulent transport, random phenomena, stratified mixing
Wei Mei
wmei@email.unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
research, teaching, tropical cyclones, climate
Benjamin Meier
meierb@email.unc.eduPublic Policy
international law, public policy, global health, water governance, water policy