Research
ECU ScholarShip Sustainability Research Collection
Names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research at ECU in 2021-22:
| First Name | Last Name | Department | Research Topic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cynthia | Grace-McCaskey | Anthropology | Toward a Multi-Scale Theory of Coupled Human Mobility and Environmental Change | |||
| Elizabeth | Ables | Biology | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Rebecca | Asch | Biology | Identification of the Spawning Grounds and Offshore Migration Corridor Used by the North Carolina Stock of Southern Flounder. | |||
| Christopher | Balakrishnan | Biology | The White-winged Wood Duck: Fighting Disease to Fight Extinction | |||
| April | Blakeslee | Biology | Evaluating ecosystem benefits and tradeoffs of living shoreline materials | |||
| Peri | Bolton | Biology | Conservation genomics of the threatened Wallowa rosy-finch | |||
| David | Chalcraft | Biology | ||||
| Suelen | De Morais Calado | Biology | NUTRIEN EFFLUENT AND WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN THE PAMLICO RIVER ESTUARY, N.C.: 2021 Support | |||
| Erin | Field | Biology | Environmental DNA Sampling in the Lower Roanoke River | |||
| Rachel | Gittman | Biology | Oyster reef restoration in Back Sound, Rachel Carson Reserve, Beaufort, North Carolina, NFHP | |||
| Carol | Goodwillie | Biology | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Patrick | Harris | Biology | Identification of the Spawning Grounds and Offshore Migration Corridor Used by the North Carolina Stock of Southern Flounder. | |||
| John | Haywood | Biology | biological effects of endocrine disrupting chemical pollution | |||
| John | Hoben | Biology | A Paired-Watershed Approach to Evaluate the Influence of Onsite Wastewater Nutrient Inputs to Falls Lake, NC | |||
| Claudia | Jolls | Biology | NRT-URoL: Promoting Creativity and Excellence in Biological Sciences through Team Collaboration Mentorships | |||
| Joseph | Luczkovich | Biology | Identification of the Spawning Grounds and Offshore Migration Corridor Used by the North Carolina Stock of Southern Flounder. | |||
| Michael | McCoy | Biology | Collaborative Research: Linking predator functional diversity to prey dynamics through the functional response | |||
| Krista | McCoy | Biology | Detoxifying a Toxic Environment: Investigating Sulforaphane-Mediated Prevention of Pollutant-Induced Neurodevelopmental Abnormalities | |||
| Jeffrey | McKinnon | Biology | Waters of Wonders: The Exuberant Biodiversity of Earth's Ancient Lakes | |||
| Susan | McRae | Biology | Effects of land management on occupancy, movements and breeding success of a threatened freshwater marsh bird, the King Rail | |||
| James | Morley | Biology | The influence of environmental factors and changes to hydrology on brown shrimp recruitment | |||
| Ariane | Peralta | Biology | CNH2-L: An integrative analysis of perceptions, policy, and land use impact on coastal agricultural watershed resilience | |||
| Enrique | Reyes | Biology | CNH2-L: An integrative analysis of perceptions, policy, and land use impact on coastal agricultural watershed resilience | |||
| Roger | Rulifson | Biology | Environmental DNA Sampling in the Lower Roanoke River | |||
| Kyle | Summers | Biology | Teaching Evolution and Behavior using Virtual Games | |||
| Heather | Vance-Chalcraft | Biology | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Dennis | Morris | Cardiovascular Sciences | East Carolina University Center for Regional Transformation | |||
| Praveen | Malali | Center for Sustainable Energy & Environmental Engineering | Renewable Energy and Green Manufacturing Academy for Rural Middle School Students in Eastern North Carolina | |||
| William | Allen | Chemistry | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Eli | Hvastkovs | Chemistry | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Anthony | Kennedy | Chemistry | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Joi | Walker | Chemistry | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Carol | Massarra | Construction Management | Cost Effectiveness of CBDG-DR: Flood Mitigation and Vulnerable Populations | |||
| Corey | Adams | Coastal Studies | Device Design and Robust Periodic Motion Control of an Ocean Kite for Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting | |||
| George | Bonner | Coastal Studies | Powering the Blue Economy: Waves to Water | |||
| David | Corbett | Coastal Studies | Building a Lasting and Diverse Economic Sector (BLADES): Offshore Wind and Related Cutting-Edge Technologies | |||
| Linda | D'Anna | Coastal Studies | Using Undergraduate Engineers and Community Engagement to Build Resilient Coastal Communities | |||
| Eric | Diaddorio | Coastal Studies | Spatial and Interannual Variation in Offshore Habitats Used by Southern Flounder in North Carolina Waters | |||
| Lindsay | Dubbs | Coastal Studies | An Atlantic Marine Energy Center (AMEC) for Advancing the Marine Renewable Energy Industry and Powering the Blue Economy | |||
| David | Griffith | Coastal Studies | Toward a Multi-Scale Theory of Coupled Human Mobility and Environmental Change | |||
| Nadine | Heck | Coastal Studies | Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Negotiating Ocean Conflicts among RIvals for Sustainable and Equitable Solutions | |||
| Andrew | Keeler | Coastal Studies | Climate Change Adaptation in a Coupled Geomorphic-Economic Coastal System | |||
| Mark | Keusenkothen | Coastal Studies | The Roi-Namur Battlefield: Site Survey and Inventory of Submerged Battlescape Heritage | |||
| David | Lagomasino | Coastal Studies | Using ICESat2 data for Coastal Ecosystem Structure Assessment | |||
| Alex | Manda | Coastal Studies | Discoveries in Earth Science for Middle and High School Students with Blindness or Visual Impairments | |||
| Ronald | McCord | Coastal Studies | An Atlantic Marine Energy Center (AMEC) for Advancing the Marine Renewable Energy Industry and Powering the Blue Economy | |||
| Michael | Muglia | Coastal Studies | Waves to Water Prize Partnership with Coastal Studies Institute at East Carolina University | |||
| Siddharth | Narayan | Coastal Studies | Guaranteeing coastal wetland survival under sea level rise through nature-based beneficial-use dredged sediment placement: A Galveston Bay living laboratory | |||
| Michael | O'Driscoll | Coastal Studies | Coastal Wastewater Infrastructure | |||
| Paul | Paris | Coastal Studies | Monitoring possible impacts of beach nourishment on the Avon and Buxton 2022 construction projects | |||
| Kimberly | Rogers | Coastal Studies | CNH-L: Socioecological system dynamics related to livelihood, human migration, and landscape evolution in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta | |||
| Patterson | Taylor | Coastal Studies | Device Design and Robust Periodic Motion Control of an Ocean Kite for Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting | |||
| Eric | Wade | Coastal Studies | Cross-institutional & Collaborative: Team Science to Enable Interdisciplinary Graduate Pathways | |||
| Nehad | Elsawaf | Economics | Greening Industries in North Carolina: Making Pollution Prevention Pay | |||
| Ausmita | Ghosh | Economics | Preparing for, responding to, and mitigating compound coastal water hazards for resilient rural communities | |||
| Jacob | Hochard | Economics | CoPe EAGER: Establishing Interface Standards for Physical Exposure and Human Impacts Data Collection and Publication in Rapid Response to Coastal Hazards | |||
| Gregory | Howard | Economics | Large-Scale CoPe: The Collaboratory for Coastal Adaptation over Space and Time (C-CoAST) Hub for Transdisciplinary Understanding of Coupled Human-Natural Coastal Dynamics | |||
| Jamie | Kruse | Economics | Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning | |||
| Haiyong | Liu | Economics | NRT-HDR: Finding Signal in the Noise to Enable Science-Based Community Response to Change in Coastal Region | |||
| Meghan | Millea | Economics | Collaborative Research: LEAP HI: Embedding regional hurricane risk management in the life of a community: A computational framework | |||
| Tarek | Abdul-Salam | Engineering | Renewable Energy and Green Manufacturing Academy for Rural Middle School Students in Eastern North Carolina | |||
| Natasha | Bell | Engineering | Potential of Woody Substrate-based Bioreactors to Remediate Plant Pathogens in Agricultural Runoff for Onsite Water Reuse | |||
| James | Etheridge | Engineering | Reducing stormwater runoff at everyone carries an umbrela university (ECU) | |||
| Donna | Kain | English | Collaborative Research: LEAP HI: Embedding regional hurricane risk management in the life of a community: A computational framework | |||
| Matthew | Rushing | Family Medicine | Led Break Experience in Costa Rica to study ecological, social, and ecnomic health of the island. | |||
| Beth | Bee | Geography, Environment, & Planning | Community Asset Mapping Workshops for the Blue Economy Corridor in the Eastern Tar-Pamlico River Basin | |||
| Burrell | Covey | Geography, Environment, & Planning | Making Sense of Uncertainty: Improving the Use of Hydrologic Probabilistic Information in Decision-Making | |||
| Walter | Curtis | Geography, Environment, & Planning | Preparing for, responding to, and mitigating compound coastal water hazards for resilient rural communities | |||
| Paul | Gares | Geography, Environment, & Planning | Estuarine bluff shorelines: Inter-relation between erosion processes and development vulnerability | |||
| Robert | Howard | Geography, Environment, & Planning | CESU- Shoreline Change Analysis for Habitat, Recreation, and Infrastructure Resilience at Cape Hatteras National Seashore | |||
| Misun | Hur | Geography, Environment, & Planning | Science and Community Oriented Resilience Enhancement (SCORE) for equitable climate and energy solutions in natural-human urban systems | |||
| Anuradha | Mukherji | Geography, Environment, & Planning | Preparing for, responding to, and mitigating compound coastal water hazards for resilient rural communities | |||
| Yoo Min | Park | Geography, Environment, & Planning | A low-cost mobile air-pollution sensor with geospatial mapping: A tool for community-engaged, environmental health disparity research | |||
| Jacob | Petersen-Perlman | Geography, Environment, & Planning | Focused CoPe: Supporting Environmental Justice in Connected Coastal Communities through a Regional Approach to Collaborative Community Science | |||
| Hannah | Sirianni | Geography, Environment, & Planning | Evaluating ecosystem benefits and tradeoffs of living shoreline materials | |||
| Thad | Wasklewicz | Geography, Environment, & Planning | CESU- Shoreline Change Analysis for Habitat, Recreation, and Infrastructure Resilience at Cape Hatteras National Seashore | |||
| David | Farris | Geology | The nature of long-lived Appalachian terrane boundaries: An examination of the Tugaloo terrane and Brevard zone in the North Carolina inner Piedmont. | |||
| Eric | Horsman | Geology | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Eduardo | Leorri Soriano | Geology | Defining and Modeling the Response of a Low Gradient Coastal System to Rapid Sea-Level Rise during the Late Pleistocene | |||
| David | Mallinson | Geology | Defining and Modeling the Response of a Low Gradient Coastal System to Rapid Sea-Level Rise during the Late Pleistocene | |||
| Siddhartha | Mitra | Geology | NUTRIEN PHOSPHATE EFFLUENT AND WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN THE PAMLICO RIVER ESTUARY, N.C.: 2020 Support | |||
| Stephen | Moysey | Geology | REU SITE: RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION TO COASTAL CHANGE ACROSS COMMUNITIES | |||
| Craig | Becker | Health Education & Promotion | Initiating sustainable behavior, feel good for doing good | |||
| Charles | Humphrey | Health Education & Promotion | Coastal Wastewater Infrastructure | |||
| Stephanie | Richards | Health Education & Promotion | GCHC Integrated Behavioral HealthCare Partnership 2021-2022 | |||
| Jennifer | McKinnon | History | Saipan's Land and Sea: Battle Scars & Sites of Resilience | |||
| Jason | Rupp | History | The Roi-Namur Battlefield: Site Survey and Inventory of Submerged Battlescape Heritage | |||
| Priti | Desai | Human Development & Family Science | Global health issues, child life services in india, human and ecological health, social justice, secure livelihoods, better world for all gernerations | |||
| Katharine | Didericksen | Human Development & Family Science | 1st PRIORITIES-Practicing Resiliency & Inclusion: Our Role in Training Integrated Excellence & Sustainability | |||
| Jennifer | Hodgson | Human Development & Family Science | GCHC Integrated Behavioral HealthCare Partnership 2021-2022 | |||
| Angela | Lamson | Human Development & Family Science | GCHC Integrated Behavioral HealthCare Partnership 2021-2022 | |||
| Jeanne | Hoover | Joyner Library | Open ETDs for Outreach | |||
| Jon | Kirchoff | Marketing | Sustainability-related business topics in supply chain management and marketing | |||
| Rachel | Roper | Microbiology & Immunology | Gender bias in regards to women in the science field. | |||
| Alex | Hodges | Nursing | Community resilience and climate change | |||
| Elizabeth | Mizelle | Nursing | Heat-related illnesses and climate change | |||
| Regina | DeWitt | Physics | Collaborative Research: Holocene and late Pleistocene stream deposition in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica as a proxy for glacial meltwater and paleoclimate | |||
| Nathan | Hudson | Physics | Team Experiences and Mentoring Strategies for Undergraduate Research (TEaMS-UR) | |||
| Mark | Sprague | Physics | Identification of the Spawning Grounds and Offshore Migration Corridor Used by the North Carolina Stock of Southern Flounder. | |||
| Steven | Wolf | Physics | REU Site: Resilience and Adaptation to Coastal Change Across Virtual Communities (C2-Virtual-C) | |||
| Alethia | Cook | Political Science | Eastern North Carolina Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence | |||
| Peter | Francia | Political Science | Water Quality and NC Fisheries: Building Stakeholder and Public Support for Improved Water Quality | |||
| Samantha | Mosier | Political Science | Improving Agriculture Policy Design, Implementation, and Resource Allocation: An Examination of Food Labeling Perceptions for GMOs and Other Related Terms | |||
| Sharon | Paynter | Political Science | NRT-HDR: Finding Signal in the Noise to Enable Science-Based Community Response to Change in Coastal Region | |||
| Mark | Bowler | Psychology | NRT-HDR: Finding Signal in the Noise to Enable Science-Based Community Response to Change in Coastal Region | |||
| Greg | Kearney | Public Health | Community Health Needs Assessment 2021-2022 | |||
| Jeffrey | Skibins | Recreation Sciences | WaterHubs as Entry Points to Environmental Stewardship | |||
| Antoni | Aguilar Mogas | Research, Economic Development, & Engagement | Biogas Optimization Modeling | |||
| David | Mayo | School of Entrepreneurship | Greening Food Processing and Automotive Manufacturing in North Carolina | |||
| Kanchan | Das | Technology Systems | Renewable Energy and Green Manufacturing Academy for Rural Middle School Students in Eastern North Carolina |