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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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Stephanie Engel

stephanie.engel@unc.edu
Professor
Department of Epidemiology

Expertise:

environmental exposures and innate susceptibility factors on adverse pregnancy outcomes and neurodevelopmental impairment in children


Barbara Entwisle

entwisle@unc.edu
Fellow
Carolina Population Center

Kenan Distinguished Professor
Department of Sociology

Expertise:

research, teaching, service, population-environment interactions, climate change and migration, life course and migration, social networks and migration, survey methodology, quantitative methods, measurement of social environments, dynamic models, environment and health


Arturo Escobar

aescobar@email.unc.edu
Kenan Distinguished Professor
Department of Anthropology

Expertise:

political ecology, ontological design, the anthropology of development, social movements, and technoscience, biodiversity conservation


Stephen Fegley

srfegley@email.unc.edu
Research Associate Professor, Emeritus
Institute of Marine Sciences

Expertise:

shellfish biology, meiofaunal biology, barrier island ecology, and interactions among current flows, sediments, organisms in shallow water habitats


William Fischer

wfischer@med.unc.edu
Director of Emerging Pathogens
Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine

Expertise:

severe viral infections, emerging infectious diseases, pathogenesis, novel therapeutic interventions


Michael Fisher

fishermb@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

research, teaching, environmental engineering, water, sanitation, environmental microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, environmental health, environmental chemistry


Kennet E. Flores Reyes

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

Expertise:

petrologic and tectonic processes


John Florin

jflorin@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor Emeritus
Department of Geography and Environment

Expertise:

population geography, medical geography


Mike Flynn

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

Expertise:

industrial hygiene, human exposure to airborne contaminants in occupational environments, neurodegenerative diseases


F. Joel Fodrie

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

Expertise:

coastal biological oceanography, fish and bivalve population ecology, connectivity of marine populations and ecosystems, trophic interactions in estuarine communities, ecosystem service delivery of biogenic habitats, long-term community patterns


Donald Fox

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

Expertise:

air pollution


Dionne Cross Francis

dicross@unc.edu
Coordinator
Culture, Curriculum, and Teacher Education Program

Joseph R. Neikirk Term Professor
School of Education

Expertise:

climate justice


Elizabeth Frankenberg

e.frankenberg@unc.edu
Director
Carolina Center for Population

Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor
Department of Sociology

Expertise:

individual and family response to change across the life course and the role of community, broadly construed, in individual behaviors and outcomes, health status as a critical dimension of well-being, close integration of methods and data


Ronit Freeman

ronifree@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Physical Sciences

Expertise:

biomaterials, self-assembly


Rebecca Fry

rfry@unc.edu
Director
Institute for Environmental Health Solutions

Research Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor in Children's Environmental Health
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

research, developmental origins of health and disease and epigenetics


Paul Gabrielson

drseaweed@hotmail.com
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biology

Expertise:

biogeography of marine algae, seaweed, biodiversity


Michel Gagné

mgagne@unc.edu
Mary Ann Smith Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

Expertise:

catalysis, synthetic methods, synthetic receptors, biofuels


Marilie Gammon

Professor
Department of Epidemiology

Expertise:

cancer, environment, nutrition, obesity, women's health, Epidemiology of breast cancer risk and survival, epidemiology of esophageal cancer risk and survival by histologic subtype, environmental risk factors, nutritional risk factors, exogenous hormone use, molecular epidemiology


Greg Gangi

ggangi@email.unc.edu
Associate Director
Clean Technology and Innovation

Teaching Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Expertise:

clean technology, global change and innovation, clean energy, smart cities, water technologies, sustainable transportation


Patricia Gensel

pgensel@bio.unc.edu
Professor
Department of Biology

Expertise:

plant morphology, pteridology, palynology, Devonian spores, stratigraphic applications, use of pollen or spores in systematic and phylogenetic analyses in modern and fossil plants