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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.

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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

BJ Tipton

btipton@fac.unc.edu

Solid Waste Manager
Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling

Expertise:

waste reduction, recycling, recycle, facilities, trash disposal, reuse

Melissa Troester

troester@email.unc.edu

Director
UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility

Research Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Professor
Department of Epidemiology

Expertise:

breast tissue biology, breast tissue alterations during carcinogenesis

Caroline Tucker

carolinetucker@unc.edu

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology

Expertise:

community ecology, quantifying biodiversity, phylogenetic and functional diversity, species interactions and coexistence in communities, intraspecific variation

Barbara Turpin

bjturpin@email.unc.edu

Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

human exposures, effects of airborne particles from precursor emissions

Gabriela Valdivia

valdivia@email.unc.edu

Assistant Dean
Honors Carolina

William C. Friday Distinguished Professor
Department of Geography and Environment

Expertise:

research, teaching, political ecology, environmental justice, resource governance

Léda Van Doren

leda.vandoren@unc.edu

Teaching Assistant Professor
Environment, Ecology and Energy Program

Expertise:

energy, environmental engineering

David van Duin

vanduin@med.unc.edu

Director
Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Section

Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine

Expertise:

infections in immunocompromised hosts gram-negative bacterial resistance

Julie Jacobson Vann

jvann@email.unc.edu

Clinical Associate Professor
School of Nursing

Expertise:

sustainability, nursing, vaccination, health care financing

William Vizuete

vizuete@unc.edu

Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

air quality modeling, atmospheric chemistry

Steve Wall

swall@email.unc.edu

Outreach Liaison
North Carolina Collaboratory

Policy Research Associate
UNC Institute for the Environment

Expertise:

environmental policy, science communication, legislative and regulatory process

Steve Walsh

swalsh@email.unc.edu

Research Professor
Department of Geography and Environment

Founding Emeritus Director
Center for Galapagos Studies

Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Emeritus Professor
Department of Geography and Environment

Expertise:

research, teaching, outreach, island ecosystems, human-environment interactions, landscape ecology, geospatial data and technologies, spatial simulation modeling, satellite remote sensing, GIS