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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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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

Jeff Dangl

dangl@email.unc.edu

Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

John N. Couch Professor
Department of Biology

Expertise:

ecosystems

Julie Daniels

julie_daniels@unc.edu

Professor
Department of Maternal and Child Health

Professor
Department of Epidemiology

Expertise:

research, teaching, environmental justice, environment, perinatal exposure, child health, neurodevelopment, reproductive health

Patrick Davison

pdavison@email.unc.edu

Professor
Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Expertise:

documentary photojournalism, environmental issues, photojournalism

María DeGuzmán

deguzman@email.unc.edu

Director
Latina/o Studies Program

Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor
English and Comparative Literature

Expertise:

ecocritism, environmental justice studies, environmental studies

Jillian Dempsey

dempseyj@email.unc.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Chemistry

Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor
Department of Chemistry

Expertise:

inorganic spectroscopy, solar energy conversion

Vinayak Deshpande

vinayak_deshpande@kenan-flagler.unc.edu

The Mann Family Distinguished Professor of Operations
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Expertise:

airline industry aviation, supply-chain management, operations, game theory, incentives, inventory, logistics, product, sustainable enterprise, transportation

Joseph DeSimone

desimone@unc.edu

Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemistry

Expertise:

photovoltaics, solar energy, fuel cells, fluoropolymer coatings, smart nanoparticles, biological imaging, PRINTtechnology

Amanda Devlechia

amanda.delvecchia@unc.edu

Voit Gilmore Fellow
Department of Geography and Environment

Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Environment

Expertise:

freshwater ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, physical geography

Radhika Dhingra

rdhingra@live.unc.edu

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

psychosocial and biological pre- and co- exposures modulate air-pollution-induced adverse health effects

Elizabeth Dickinson

elizabeth_dickinson@kenan-flagler.unc.edu

Adjunct Professor of Management and Corporate Communication
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Expertise:

intercultural communication, environmental communication, gender, eco-theory and philosophy, environmental education, environmental consumerism, space, place, and landscape, epistemologies of science, politics, and economics, environmental conflict, environmental justice, ecofeminism

Francis DiGiano

fran_digiano@unc.edu

Professor Emeritus
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

reexamination of infrastructures for water conveyance, water treatment, wastewater collection, wastewater treatment, water reclamation, non-potable water