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About our Experts

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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Jaye Cable

jecable@email.unc.edu
Senior Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics
College of Arts and Sciences

Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences

Expertise:

coastal hydrology, geochemistry, wetland hydrology and hydrodynamics, coastal water bodies


James Cahoon

jfcahoon@unc.edu
Hyde Family Foundation Professor
Department of Chemistry

Expertise:

nanomaterials/nanowire synthesis, solar and thermal energy, photonics


Roberto Camassa

camassa@amath.unc.edu
Kenan Distinguished Professor
Department of Mathematics

Expertise:

nonlinear evolution equations, mathematical modeling, fluid mechanics, optics


Karl Castillo

kdcastil@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences

Expertise:

research, teaching, service, outreach, coral physiological ecology, global change, coral reef ecology, coral reef conservation


Gerald Cecil

cecil@unc.edu
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy

Expertise:

observational astrophysics, design/build 3D spectroscopic instrumentation, energy systems and transition from fossil fuels, active galactic nuclei- optical, radio, UV, x-ray observations with ground-based space telescopes


Gregory Characklis

charack@email.unc.edu
Director
Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems

W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

research, teaching, water resources, energy, financial risk


Larry Chavis

chavisl@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Clinical Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Expertise:

sustainable enterprise, organizational design


Russell Christman

rchristm@live.unc.edu
Professor Emeritus
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

aquatic chemistry


Chris Clemens

clemens@physics.unc.edu
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy

Expertise:

stellar seismology, interacting binaries, time-resolved photometry and spectroscopy, astronomical instrumentation, solar energy


Susan Cohen

susanac@email.unc.edu
Associate Director
UNC Institute for the Environment

Expertise:

adaptive management, resilience, southeastern forests, coastal marshes, remote sensing, drones


Riccardo Colacito

Riccardo_Colacito@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Professor of Finance
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Expertise:

international finance, financial econometrics, model uncertainty, experimental economics, climate change


Drew Coleman

dcoleman@unc.edu
Professor
Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences

Chair
Environment, Ecology and Energy Program

Expertise:

research, teaching, service, isotope geochemistry


Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

rudi-colloredo@unc.edu
Professor
Department of Anthropology

Expertise:

indigenous peoples, artisan economies, competition, commodities, consumer cultures, producer associations, local food systems


Tab Combs

tacombs@email.unc.edu
Research Associate
Department of City and Regional Planning

Expertise:

decarbonization


Amy Cooke

amycooke@unc.edu
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Environment, Ecology and Energy Program

Teaching Associate Professor
Environment, Ecology and Energy Program

Expertise:

teaching, advising, agricultural sustainability, water rights, water management, international development, human ecology, conservation and development, food studies, health, Africa


Orlando Coronell

coronell@unc.edu
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Applied Physical Sciences

Associate Chair for Academics
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

physicochemical processes for water purification with an emphasis on membrane technologies, membrane processes for water desalination and reuse and energy generation and storage using salinity gradients, mechanisms of transport of water, salts, and other solutes through membranes, the development of new and improved membranes, optimization of membrane processes and systems, wet chemistry, polymer synthesis, materials characterization at the nanoscale, use of state-of-the-art membrane systems, mathematical modeling of membrane performance


Daniel Costa

costa.dan@epa.gov
Adjunct Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

air pollutants, human health, cardiopulmonary, neurophysiology, cell-molecular biology, pollutants


James Costa

costa@email.wcu.edu
Director
Highlands Biological Station

Adjunct Professor
Department of Biology

Expertise:

genetics, entomology, biogeography, evolution, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, insect life, island evolution


J. Robert Cox

rcox1@live.unc.edu
Professor Emeritus
Department of Communication

Expertise:

environmental communication and the public sphere, role of discourse in social change


Linda D’Anna

lmdanna@gmail.com
Lecturer
Outer Banks Field Site

Research Associate
Coastal Studies Institute

Expertise:

human dimensions, cultural and social considerations contribute to understanding of coastal and estuarine system, well-being and resilience of social-ecological systems