Current ICS PhD Students

2023 Cohort

: Nelson Adeniji

: Daystar Babanawo

: Daniel Reed

: Madeline Roth

: Sarah Radel

: Rebecca Reibel

: Alexandra Stevenson

: Zackary Shepard

Student Information:

- 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

2022 Cohort

: Jillian Eller

: Mary-Margaret McKinney

: Mariela Victoria Garcia Vega

: Kelly White-Singleton

: Kimiya Yousefi

Student Information:

- 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
  - yousefik22@students.ecu.edu

2021 Cohort

: Kinsey Blumenthal

: Jacquelyn Moore Flanagan

: Megan Elizabeth Geesin

: Allyson Ropp

: Mahesh Tapas

: Georgette Louise Tso

: Rachel Marie Wheatley

Student Information:

- 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
- Mahesh Tapas
  - tapasm21@students.ecu.edu
  - Dissertation- Integrative Analysis of Policy Changes for a Coastal Watershed: Implications for Agriculture and Ecosystem Health
- 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

2020 Cohort

: Jaclyn Best

: Samantha Farquhar

: Maria Gomez

: Jason Kops

: Shalimar Moreno

: Yicheng Xu

Student Information:

- Jaclyn Best
  - bestj20@students.ecu.edu
- Samantha Farquhar
  - farquhars20@students.ecu.edu
  - Dissertation- An integrated modeling approach to assess the impact of industrial fishing on coastal communities’ food security: a case study from the Arctic
- Maria Gomez
  - gomezsaldarriagam14@students.ecu.edu
  - Dissertation- From Ecosystem Services to Public Health: A Comprehensive Analysis of Mapping, Tracking, and Quantifying Health-Related Services
- Jason Kops
  - kopsj11@students.ecu.edu
  - Dissertation- An Analysis of the Effect of Flood Risk Beyond FEMA Designated Floodplains on Property Price and People
- 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

: John Edward Sabin III

: In memory of Anja Sjostrom

Student Information:

- 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
- John Edward Sabin, III
  - sabinj19@students.ecu.edu
  - Dissertation- Socio-ecological Restoration at the Boundary: Integrative Monitoring in South Florida’s Conservation Areas