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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 ExpertDanielle 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
Julia Rager
jrager@unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
air pollution, bioinformatics, dose-response modeling, genomics, epigenomics, high-throughput exposure and toxicity screening of chemicals, mixtures modeling, modeling of biological pathways, systems biology, risk assessment, PFAS, wildfire smoke
Arcot Rajasekar
rajasekar@unc.eduSchool of Information and Library Science
data grids, digital libraries, persistent archives and artificial intelligence
Johnny Randall
jrandall@unc.eduEnvironment, Ecology and Energy Program Director of Conservation Programs
North Carolina Botanical Garden
conservation biology, restoration ecology
Peter Redfield
redfield@unc.eduDepartment Of Anthropology
anthropology of science, technology, and medicine, humanitarianism and human rights, colonial history, ethics, nongovernmental organizations and transnational experts, Europe, French Guiana, Uganda, South Africa, ecology
Cynthia Register
cynthia.register@facilities.unc.eduEnergy Management
energy management, facilities, water management
José Rial
jose_rial@unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences
computer modeling of environmental systems, theoretical geophysics/climatology, seismic monitoring, energy resources, geology and geopolitics of fossil fuels, energy depletion and global climate change
David Richardson
david.richardson@unc.eduDepartment of Epidemiology
occupational, environmental, radiation, injury epidemiology
Erin Riggs
riggs@sog.unc.eduEnvironmental Finance Center
drinking water, environment, pollution, sewer, waste, wastewater, water, water infrastructure
Ron Rindfuss
ron_rindfuss@unc.eduDepartment of Sociology
social demography, marriage, and family, trends and variations in fertility in the US and Asia, family and family change in the US and Asia, population, the environment
Diego Riveros-Iregui
diegori@unc.eduMember Faculty
Institute for the Study of the Americas Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor
Department of Geography and Environment
research, teaching, service, ecohydrology, watershed hydrology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, land-atmosphere interactions, tropical hydrology, climate, land use/land cover change
Antonio Rodriguez
abrodrig@email.unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences Morehead City Field Site Director
UNC Institute for the Environment Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
coastal geology with emphasis on environmental response to sea-level rise, climate change, and land-use change in decadal, centennial, and millennial time scales, sedimentology, ecogeomorphology
Johanna Rosman
jrosman@unc.eduInstitute of Marine Sciences
environmental fluid mechanics, shallow water physical oceanography, physical-biological interactions in marine systems
Siddhartha Roy
sidroy@unc.eduThe Water Institute at UNC
chemistry, treatment, corrosion and infrastructure of drinking water, public health, contamination, WASH, citizen science surveillance, bio-kinetic modeling, environmental justice
Laura Ruel
lruel@unc.eduHussman School of Journalism and Media
design, user experience, behavior and cognitive processes in the age of interactive media, U.S. energy use
Troy D. Sadler
tsadler@unc.eduSchool of Education
climate literacy
Eunice Sahle
eunice@email.unc.eduDepartment of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
environmental policies, movements in Africa
Aaron Salzberg
salzbergaa@unc.eduThe Water Institute at UNC Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
drinking water, waste water technology, operational hydrology, the water-energy-food nexus, transboundary water and conflict, international policy/negotiations
Edward Samulski
et@unc.eduDepartment of Applied Physical Sciences
elastic networks and sheared polymer melts, "RheoNMR," biaxial nematic, nanostructures for increased photo voltaic efficiencies