Faculty & Staff

Department of Geography & Geology:

Dr. William Cleary, Dept. of G&G and Center for Marine Science: marine and coastal geology of inlets and beach shoreline change using aerial photography.

Dr. Joanne Halls, Director of the Spatial Analysis Lab, Dept. of G&G and Center for Marine Science: coastal land use, tidal creek watershed modeling, marine GIS, ecosystem and environmental GIS.

Dr. Douglas Gamble, Director of the Lab. for Climate Research, Dept. of G&G and Center for Marine Science: Caribbean island climates.

Dr. Nancy Grindlay, Co-director of the Coastal and Marine Geophysics Lab and Center for Marine Science: multibeam and sidescan sonar mapping to study morphology, structure and tectonics of ocean ridges and plate boundaries, seabed classification, and sediment transport.

Dr. Lewis Abrams, Co-director of the Coastal and Marine Geophysics Lab and Center for Marine Science: marine and terrestrial investigations of subsurface investigations of structures and sediments at locations in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and western Pacific.

Dr. Lynn Leonard: Coastal marshes, coastal and marine sediments, Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program, and Center for Marine Science.

Department of Environmental Studies:

Dr. Jeff Hill: EVS graduate program coordinator, recreational use of coastal resources.

Dr. Jamie Rotenburg: Coodinator of the Painted Bunting observer Team (BPOT) project.

Department of Biology and Marine Biology:

Dr. Michael Durako: Dept. of B&MB and Center for Marine Science: Coastal botany and Florida Bay seagrasses.

Dr. Ann Pabst: Assistant Chair and Graduate Coordinator: Marine mammalogy of Sarasota Bay dolphins.

Dr. Steve Emslie: Mapping coastal and terrestrial birds such as the blue footed boobies of Peru and Cranes in Asia.

National Undersea Research Center:

Mr. Andrew Shepard: Director of NURC: Oculina GIS and other mapping projects.

Center for Marine Science:

Dr. Michael Mallin: Director of the Aquatic Ecology Lab, Center for Marine Science: Water quality of the Lower Cape Fear River and New Hanover County tidal creeks program.

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