Semester Experience at the Coast Faculty
Dr. Reide Corbett – Dean and Director, Integrated Coastal Programs. Fields of interest: Nutrient cycling, shoreline change, estuarine sediment dynamics, coastal geomorphology, marsh accretion.
Dr. Linda D’Anna – Research Scientist. Fields of interest: Cultural and social considerations in our understanding of coastal and estuarine systems and resilience of social-ecological systems
Dr. Lindsay Dubbs – Research Scientist. Fields of interest: Biogeochemistry and ecosystem-scale ecology; the influence of offshore energy generation on coastal marine ecosystems.
Dr. David Griffith – Professor. Fields of interest: Environmental change and migration, coasts as borders, labor and immigration, fishing communities.
Dr. Stu Hamilton – Professor. Fields of interest: Remote sensing, GIS, and quantifying changes in nearshore environments and other estuarine processes.
Dr. Nadine Heck – Assistant Professor. Fields of interest: Marine protected areas, natural resource management, marine governance, climate change adaptation, quantitative social science methods, multi-criteria analysis, GIS.
Dr. Qubin Qin – Assistant Professor. Fields of interest: physical transport processes, physical-biological interactions, coastal environmental issues, and model development.
Dr. David Lagomasino – Assistant Professor. Fields of interest: Use of satellite, airborne, drone, and ground measurements to identify areas of coastal resilience and vulnerability. Relationships between remotely sensed spatial data and stakeholder exposure and sensitivity issues for coastal/wetland management and ecosystem valuation.
Dr. Jim Morley – Assistant Professor. Fields of interest: coastal ecology, fisheries ecology, climate variability influence on marine populations, habitat use and transitions between life stages in marine species.
Dr. Mike Muglia – Research Associate Professor. Fields of interest: Understanding high-frequency variability of the Gulf Stream, quantifying hydrokinetic energy resources from the Gulf Stream, and water mass dynamics off of NC.
Dr. Siddharth Narayan – Assistant Professor. Fields of interest: Coastal hazards and sustainable adaptation solutions, applied science for policy and decision-makers coastal ecosystems restoration and management for risk reduction.
Dr. Sean Charles – Research Assistant Professor. Fields of interest: Ecology of coastal ecosystems and the impact of climate change, cyclones, and anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem structure and function. Primary interest is in maximizing the ecosystem services provided by coastal wetlands.