Current ICS Ph.D. Students
2025 Cohort
- Kristen Bigelow
- Graeme Clark
- Emmanuel Maldonado
- Bairon Mugeni
- Daniel Ocloo
- Charles Veith
- Lindsay Wentzel
Student Information:
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- Kristen Bigelow
- bigelowk25@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- utilizing GIS to monitor coastal habitat integrity, assess human impacts on coastal-dwelling mammals, and explore the intersection of tourism and environmental justice
- Graeme Clark
- Emmanuel Maldonado
- maldonadogonzalee25@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- intersections of environmental justice, coastal displacement, small-scale fisheries, and food systems in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, with a focus on how community knowledge, governance, and socio-ecological change shape access to marine resources and the resilience of coastal communities
- Bairon Mugeni
- mugenib25@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- understanding and modeling the impact of land use activities on aquatic ecosystem health and water quality, with a goal of supporting sustainable aquaculture, conservation, and environmental policy in the African Great Lakes region
- Daniel Ocloo
- Charles Veith
- veithc23@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Using Field, Lab, and Modeling Studies to Determine the Impact Anthropogenic Climate Change has on Sport Fish Biology, Ecology, and Fisheries
- Lindsay Wentzel
- Kristen Bigelow
2024 Cohort
- Kachapond Chettanawanit
- Abdulahi Opejin
- Sarah Titta
Student Information:
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- Kachapond Chettanawanit
- chettanawanitk24@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Coastal dynamic, interaction between physical and biogeochemical processes, and water quality using modeling and data analysis
- Abdulahi Opejin
- opejina22@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Using Geospatial Analytics and ML models to understand surface water dynamics, water quality, air quality, environmental justice, environmental health, and environmental (air & water) quality sensors.
- Sarah Titta
- tittas24@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Utilizing GIS to monitor marine habitat quality, analyzing social aspects of environmental protection, identifying potential environmental risks associated with coastal and maritime environments
- Kachapond Chettanawanit
2023 Cohort
- Nelson Adeniji
- Daystar Babanawo
- Daniel Reed
- Madeline Roth
- Sarah Radel
- Rebecca Reibel
- Alexandra Stevenson
- Zackary Shepard
Student Information:
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- Nelson Adeniji
- adenijin21@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Hazard and Disaster Risk Reduction, Community-based research, Geospatial Sciences
- Daystar Babanawo
- babanawod23@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Coastal hazards, resilience, and engineering
- Daniel Reed
- reedda21@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Chemistry, PFA contamination, education
- Madeline Roth
- rothm16@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Maritime heritage, cultural resource management
- Sarah Radel
- radels23@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Data Science, Geospatial Science, Climate Change: Adaption, Mitigation, and Resiliency
- Rebecca Reibel
- reibelr23@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Geology, coastal morphology, sea level rise and urbanization
- Zackary Shepard
- shepardz20@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Conservation Psychology & Environmental Anthropology. More specifically what factors influence decision-making among fishers and in coastal and marine spaces
- Alexandra Stevenson
- stevensona17@students.ecu.edu
- Environmental Anthropology; Climate Change; Nature-based Solutions
- Nelson Adeniji
2022 Cohort
- Jillian Eller
- Mary-Margaret McKinney
- Mariela Victoria Garcia Vega
- Kelly White-Singleton
- Kimiya Yousefi
Student Information:
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- Jillian Eller
- ellerj22@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Marine renewable energy, marine spatial planning, and local knowledge that can influence the implementation of marine energy technologies.
- Mary-Margaret McKinney
- mckinneymar22@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Salt marsh restoration, ecology, engineering
- Mariela Victoria Garcia Vega
- garciavegam22@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Influence of institutional arrangements and their implementation on the effects of coastal squeeze on mangroves
- Kelly White-Singleton
- whitesingletonk03@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Sustainable tourism and recreation, environmental planning, conservation, rural economic development, community engagement/community-based research
- Kimiya Yousefi
- Jillian Eller
2021 Cohort
- Kinsey Blumenthal
- Jacquelyn Moore Flanagan
- Megan Elizabeth Geesin
- Allyson Ropp
- Georgette Louise Tso
- Rachel Marie Wheatley
Student Information:
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- Kinsey Blumenthal
- blumenthalk21@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Mosquito biodiversity and dynamics of mangrove restoration: implications for human and wildlife infectious disease
- Jacquelyn Moore Flanagan
- moorejac14@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Comprehensive Assessment of Wave Energy Potential along the Northern Outer Banks, NC: Integrating ICESat- 2 Satellite Data and CDIP Buoys for Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Megan Elizabeth Geesin
- geesinm21@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Assessing the ecological and societal benefits and tradeoffs of oyster breakwaters
- Allyson Genevieve Ropp
- roppal14@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Wooden Shipwreck Stability in a Shallow-Water Tidal-Fresh Ecosystem
- Georgette Louise Tso
- tsog21@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Wave transformations over intertidal reefs
- Rachel Marie Wheatley
- wheatleyr18@students.ecu.edu
- Research Interests- Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction; climate effects from asteroid impact, scientific method
- Kinsey Blumenthal
2020 Cohort
- Jaclyn Best
- Maria Gomez
- Shalimar Moreno
- Yicheng Xu
Student Information:
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- Jaclyn Best
- Maria Gomez
- gomezsaldarriagam14@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- From Ecosystem Services to Public Health: A Comprehensive Analysis of Mapping, Tracking, and Quantifying Health-Related Services
- Shalimar Moreno
- morenosh20@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Improving the Coastal Carbon Cycle with Space-Based Observations of Reef Complexity
- Yicheng Xu
- xuy20@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Exploring the influence of environmental, socioeconomic and demographic factors on high tide flood risks to coastal communities and the development of associated risk management strategies
2019 Cohort
- Genevieve Guerry
- Kyra Hagge
- Elnaz Pezeshski
- In memory of Anja Sjostrom
Student Information:
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- Genevieve Guerry
- guerryg19@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Human Response To Environmental Degradation: Case Study Of Chemical Contamination In Wilmington, NC
- Kyra Hagge
- haggek19@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- The future of wastewater treatment in Coastal Areas: Linking socio-economic and natural systems using social capital and Agent-based modeling
- Elnaz Pezeshski
- pezeshkie19@students.ecu.edu
- Dissertation- Coastal watershed climate adaptation: increasing coastal watershed resilience to storm-induced soil salinization using a novel concept for capillary valves
- Genevieve Guerry