Alumni
Genevieve Alexander
Research Interest: Plant community composition & long term vegetation monitoring in Northern Minnesota
Catie Alves
Research Interest: Coral reef ecology, marine conservation, fisheries reform, natural resource management
Margit Bertalan
Research Interest: Social-ecologial systems, wildlife conservation, community based conservation, East Africa
Colleen Bove
Research Interest: Ocean acidification and ocean warming effects on Caribbean coral reefs
Susan Caplow
Research Interest: Human Ecology, Environmental Education, Policy
Joseph Delesantro
Research Interest: Land-use effects on watershed hydrology and solute transport, management implication for downstream water bodies, ecohydrology
Maggie Esch
Research Interest: Coastal and estuarine hydrological and biogeochemical processes
Clare Fieseler
Research Interest: Coral Reef Ecology, Resilience, Adaptive Management
Andrea Anton Gamanzo
Research Interest: Coral reef ecology
Rachel Gittman
Research Interest: Human development impacts on coastal ecology
Adam Gold
Research Interest: Coastal watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry, stormwater management
Lauren Goodman
Research Interest: Using drone technology to geolocate shark nurseries
Kaylyn S. Gootman
Research Interest: Groundwater-surface water interactions, hyporheic zone clogging, stable isotope geochemistry
Chris Hakkenberg
Research Interest: Landscape forest dynamics, remote sensing, land use land cover change, conservation
Diamond VE Holloman
Research Interest: Environmental Justice, hurricane recovery, critical urban ecology
Molly Jenkins
Research Interest: Working with data that spans large spatial or temporal scales, ornithology, and mountain/forest ecology
Danielle Keller
Research Interest: Community assembly patterns, habitat restoration in marine communities
Matthew Kenworthy
Research Interest: Estuarine ecosystem ecology, fish behavior and habitat use dynamics, coastal fish community dynamics
Bianca Lopez
Research Interest: Urbanization and its effects on plant communities
Brian Miller
Research Interest: Social-dimensions of conservation; resilience; pastoralism; rangeland ecology; dryland rivers
Jeffrey Muehlbauer
Research Interest: River ecology
Hannah Palko
Research Interest: Environmental impacts of salinity gradient energy as a form of renewable energy on the NC coast
Kyle Palmquist
Research Interest: Plant community ecology, biogeography
Christopher Payne
Alumni
Research Interest: Long-term forest dynamics, succession, climate change, long-term disturbance effects
Limei Ran
Research Interest: Land surface processes for meteorological and air quality modeling
Megan Rúa
Research Interest: Invasion microbial ecology
Samuel Sellers
Research Interest: Evaluating population-health-environment interventions that combine programming in reproductive health and coastal conservation
Garrett Sharpe
Research Interest: Coastal Microbial Interactions and Metabolism
Erin Spencer
Research Interest: Sustainable fisheries, marine protected area management, coral reef ecology
Dennis Tarasi
Research Interest: Invasive species ecology, community ecology, population dynamics
Olivia Torano
Research Interest: Freshwater ecology, aquatic vegetation, nutrient cycling
Julie Tuttle
Research Interest: Ecological biogeography; vegetation dynamics; species distribution modeling; soil moisture modeling and forest change in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Jackie White
Research Interest: Riparian plant communities, disturbance regimes, resilience
Peter Wilfahrt
Research Interest: Plant community dynamics, functional trait ecology
Sierra Cameron Woodruff
Research Interest: Climate Change Adaptation; Environmental Policy and Planning
Shelby Ziegler
Research Interest: Food web linkages, Habitat connectivity, Marine community ecology