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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 ExpertRobert Sandler
rsandler@med.unc.eduDepartment of Epidemiology Director
Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease Nina C. & John T. Sessions Distinguished Professor
School of Medicine
digestive disease epidemiology, diverticulosis, microscopic colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, colorectal cancer
Elizabeth Sasser
ebsasser@email.unc.eduDepartment of Public Policy
environmental policy, energy
Maria Savasta-Kennedy
mskenned@email.unc.eduUNC Law Externship Program Clinical Professor
School of Law
social and environmental justice, exploring regulatory and market responses to pollution control and climate change
Cynthia Schauer
schauer@unc.eduDepartment of Chemistry
inorganic, energy, computational chemistry, energy storage
Alberto Scotti
ascotti@unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
teaching, environmental fluid mechanics, oceanography
Antonia Sebastian
asebastian@unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
urban hydrology, natural hazards, flood risk, coastal resilience, climate adaptation
Albert Segars
al.segars@unc.eduKenan-Flagler Business School
technology management, new media, strategic planning for new technology, design for sustainability, and financial and operational metrics of new technology, how firms create effective innovation, invention and proof-of-concept processes for the design of products and services
Harvey Seim
harvey_seim@unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
ocean observing systems, turbulence and mixing processes, internal hydraulics, estuarine, subtidal and tidal dynamics, shelf dynamics, high-frequency acoustics, boundary-layer meteorology, marine spatial planning
Alecia Septer
asepter@email.unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences Associate Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
research, microbiology, genetics/genomics, molecular biology
Marc Serre
marc_serre@unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
geostatistical theory to estimate water quality across the groundwater and surface waters, modeling, exposure, disease, risk mapping, GIS
Maria Servedio
servedio@email.unc.eduDepartment of Biology
speciation and evolution of premating isolation, sexual selection and evolution of mate choice, learning and cultural evolution, evolution of behavior, behavioral ecology, evolutionary genetics
Elizabeth Shank
eshank@unc.eduDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology
microbes, hosts, metabolite production, cellular heterogeneity, soil bacteria, genetics, ecology
Cindy Shea
cpshea@fac.unc.eduUNC Institute for the Environment's Sustainable Carolina
sustainability, sustainable policies, practices, curricula, LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, AASHE STARS, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System, Renewable Energy Special Projects Committee, RESPC, carbon neutrality, water neutrality, zero waste, green office
Bland Simpson
bsimpson@email.unc.eduDepartment of English and Comparative Literature
nature writing, North Carolina
Gavin Smith
gavin_smith@unc.eduCoastal Resilience Center of Excellence
hazard mitigation, planning for post-disaster recovery and climate change adaptation, land use, environmental planning, coastal resilience
Richard Smith
rls@email.unc.eduStatistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute Mark L. Reed III Distinguished Professor
Department of Statistics and Operations Research Professor
Department of Biostatistics
environmental statistics, biostatistics, spatial and time series modeling of environmental pollutants, health effects of atmospheric pollution, statistics of global climate change, extreme values in insurance and finance
Sandy Smith-Nonini
scsmith@email.unc.eduDepartment of Anthropology
energy and inequality in late-capitalism, political ecology and sustainability, social movements, politics of health and medicine, labor, Latin America
Mark Sobsey
mark_sobsey@unc.eduDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
environmental health/public health microbiology, water-sanitation-hygiene
Keith Sockman
kws@unc.eduDepartment of Biology
courtship effort and mate-choice, control of the timing of reproduction, reproductive effort, life-history trade-offs in songbirds
Conghe Song
csong@email.unc.eduDepartment of Geography and Environment Professor
Department of Geography and Environment
vegetation, remote sensing, GIS, forestry, forest ecosystems, land-cover/land-use change, global climate change, ecological modeling, human-environment interactions