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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 ExpertKevin Stewart
kgstewar@email.unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
structural geology, tectonics, Appalachian geology, geochronology, thermobarometry, sedimentology/stratigraphy
Alan Stiven
alan_stiven@unc.eduDepartment of Biology
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.eduDepartment of Computer Science
computer-supported cooperative work, hypermedia, software engineering and formal methods, programming languages and concurrency, interoperable distributed systems
Bryan Stuart
bryan.stuart@naturalsciences.orgDepartment of Biology
biodiversity, systematics and conservation of amphibians and reptiles
Nur Sunar
Nur_Sunar@kenan-flagler.unc.eduKenan-Flagler Business School
renewable energy technologies, solar, rooftop solar, sustainability, smart city technologies,Internet of Things, smart meters, residential batteries
Donna Surge
donna64@email.unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
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.eduDepartment of Chemistry Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
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.eduKenan-Flagler Business School
e-business, e-commerce, sustainable enterprise, global business, supply-chain management, operations, emerging markets
Paul Taillie
ptaillie@unc.eduDepartment of Geography and Environment
wildlife conservation, vertebrate community ecology, global change, remote sensing
Lindsey Smith Taillie
taillie@unc.eduDepartment of Nutrition
climate, food waste, waste
Jessica Tanner
jltanner@email.unc.eduDepartment of Romance Studies
research, teaching, service, environmental humanities, critical theory, 19th-century and French literature and culture
Hill Taylor
hilltaylor@unc.eduDepartment of English and Comparative Literature
environmental justice, environmental studies, natural sciences, writing, environmental humanities, climate fiction
Matthew Taylor
mattheta@email.unc.eduDepartment of English and Comparative Literature
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.eduDepartment of Chemistry
organometallic chemistry, alkane activation reactions, strategies for hydrogen generation, photochemical energy schemes
Andreas Teske
teske@email.unc.eduDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences
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.eduDepartment of City and Regional Planning
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.eduSchool of Government
development finance, sustainable community design, city and regional planning
Allie Thomas
alainna@email.unc.eduDepartment of City and Regional Planning
sustainable transportation in developing economies such as China, electric bicycles and family travel
Nancy Thomas
nancy_thomas@med.unc.eduDepartment of Dermatology
molecular carcinogenesis, environmental toxicology, molecular epidemiology of melanomas, research translation, biomarkers
David Threadgill
david_threadgill@med.unc.eduDepartment of Genetics
genetics, cancer genetics