Biology

Mark Coleman - Ph.D , University of Washington
Office Location: USDA Forest Service, Savannah River
Phone: (803) 725-0513 Email: coleman.m@earthlink.net
Research Interests: Forest ecophysiology, Belowground processes, Intensive forest management, Bioenergy
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Mary Culver - Ph.D , University of Washington
Office Location: NOAA Coastal Services Center
Phone: (843) 740-1250 Email: mary.culver@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Remote sensing, marine education, coastal biological oceanography. Webpage

Marie DeLorenzo - Ph.D , Clemson University
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service
Phone: (843) 762-8515 Email: marie.delorenzo@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Estuaries, microbial food web, pesticides, nutrients, mesocosms, ecotoxicology. Webpage

Robert Dufault - Ph.D , Kansas State University
Office Location: Clemson Coastal Research Center
Phone: (843) 402-5389 Email: bdflt@clemson.edu
Research Interests: Specialty crop physiology and culture, especially cultural practices for organically-grown crops. Webpage

Phillip Dustan - Ph.D , SUNY Stony Brook
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 232
Phone: (843) 953-8086 Email: dustanp@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Ecology and vitality of Caribbean reef-building corals and coastal hardbottom communities. The distribution of primary productivity in river, estuarine and coastal and frontal systems. Remote sensing and photoecology of coral reef communities. Webpage

Mark Farnham - Ph.D , University of Minnesota
Office Location: USDA-ARS-U.S. Vegetable Laboratory
Phone: (843) 402-5327 Email: mfarnham@saa.ars.usda.gov
Research Interests: Plant Breeding and Genetics, Biodiversity, and Integrated Pest Management. Webpage

Richard Fery - Ph.D.,Purdue University
Office Location: USDA Vegetable Laboratory
Phone: (843) 556-0840 Email:rfery@awod.com
Research Interests: Plant genetics Webpage

Thomas E. Fish - Ph.D , University of Minnesota
Office Location: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Network
Phone: (202) 208-5972 Email: Tom_Fish@nps.gov
Research Interests: Conservation biology; human dimensions of natural resource management (e.g., environmental sociology, conservation psychology, recreation ecology); environmental education. Webpage

Danny Gustafson - Ph.D, Southern Illinois University
Office Location: Citadel Department of Biology
Phone: (843) 953-7876 Email: danny.gustafson@citadel.edu
Research Interests: Plant Molecular Ecology. Webpage

Joel Gramling - Ph.D, UNC Chapel Hill
Office Location: Citadel Department of Biology
Phone: (843) 953-6459 Email: joel.gramling@citadel.edu
Research Interests: Plant Ecology. Webpage

Willem Hillenius - Ph.D , Oregon State University
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 230
Phone: (843) 953-8083 Email: hilleniusw@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Vertebrate paleobiology. Webpage

Melissa Hughes - Ph.D , Duke University
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 217B
Phone: (843) 953-6557 Email: hughesm@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Communication, sexual selection, mating behavior and aggression in animals. Webpage

James Jordan - M.S., University of Georgia
Office Location: Town of Kiawah Island
Phone: (843) 768-9166 Email: jjordan@kiawahisland.org
Research Interests: Wildlife management. Webpage

Wilfried Karmaus - MD, University of Hamburg; MPH, University of North Carolina
Office Location: Arnold School of Public Health
Phone: (803) 777-9814 Email: karmaus@sc.edu
Research Interests: Epidemiology, environment, allergy, asthma, genetics. Webpage

Kai-Shu Ling - PhD., Cornell University
Office Location: USDA, ARS U.S Vegatable Laboratory
Phone: (843) 402 - 5313 Email: kling@saa.ars.usda.gov
Research Interests: Biologically-based management
approaches against virus diseases that attack vegetable crops. Website

Harold May - Ph.D , Virginia Tech
Office Location: MUSC Dept. of Microbiology
Phone: (843) 792-7140 Email: mayh@musc.edu
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology. Webpage

JoEllyn McMillan - Ph.D , Texas A & M University
Office Location: MUSC - Dept. of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology
Phone: (843) 792-8827 Email: mcmillan@musc.edu
Research Interests: Toxicology. Webpage

Pamela Morris - Ph.D , Michigan State University
Office Location: MUSC - Cell Biology & Anatomy /
Marine Biomedicine & Env. Sciences Center
Phone: (843) 762-8803 Email: morrisp@musc.edu
Research Interests: Microbial diversity of corals, Microbial degradation of contaminants, Microbial tolerance to metals. Webpage

Susan Morrison - Ph.D , Florida State University
Office Location: Academic Affairs, Randolph Hall Rm. 210
Phone: (843) 953-5527 Email: morrisons@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Estuarine and marine microbiology. Webpage

Courtney Murren - Ph.D, University of Connecticut
Office Location: 216C Science Center
Phone: (843) 953-5504, (843) 953-8077 Email: murrenc@cofc.edu
Research Interests: How species exist and develop outside their natural range, Ecological genetics of invasive species, mechanisms for persistance of small plant populations, interaction between phenotypic plasticity and mating system in invasive species. Webpage

Paul Nolan - Ph.D, Auburn University
Office Location: Citadel Department of Biology
Phone: (843) 953-7076 Email: paul.nolan@citadel.edu
Research Interests: Avian ecology; animal behavior - especially signaling behavior and sexual selection; Conservation
Biology, including disease dynamics and ecology.

Margie Peden-Adams. - Ph.D , Clemson University
Office Location: MUSC - Dept. of Pediatrics / Marine Biomedicine and Env. Science Center, Ft. Johnson
Phone: (843) 568-8814 Email: pedenada@musc.edu
Research Interests: Health effects of environmental contaminants, immunology, toxicology, endocrinology. Webpage

John Ramsdell - Ph.D , University of California, San Francisco
Office Location: 219 Fort Johnson Road
Phone: (843) 762-8510 Email: John.Ramsdell@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Toxicology and mechanism of action of marine toxins. Webpage

Matthew Rutter - Ph.D , Duke University
Office Location: 58 Coming St, Rm. 214
Phone: (843) 762-7936 Email: rutter@wam.umd.edu
Research Interests: Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Population ecology, Plants

Felicia Sanders - M.S., Clemson University
Office Location: SC Department of Natural Resources
Phone: (843) 520-0961 Email: sandersf@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Coastal birds.

Brian Scholtens - Ph.D , University of Michigan
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 229
Phone: (843) 953-5451 Email: scholtensb@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Conservation biology of insects, Inventory and monitoring of butterfly and moths, Systematic of Lepidoptera. Webpage

Eleanor Shepard - Ph.D.,Clemson University
Office Location: A-212 Hollings Marine Laboratory
Phone: (843) 762-8864 Email: shepardn@mrd.dnr.state.sc.us
Research Interests: Molecular Techniques; Invertebrate Pathology/Microbiology.

Daniel Shillito - Ph.D , SUNY Albany
Office Location: Animal Forest
Phone: (843) 852-4200 Email: danshil@ix.netcom.com
Research Interests: Primate behavior and cognition; Captive animal enrichment

Alan Shirey - MS, MUSC / College of Charleston
Office Location: US Army Corps of Engineers
Phone:(843) 329-8166 Email: alan.d.shirey@usace.army.mil
Research Interests: Water quality, constructed wetlands, non-point source pollution; ecological effects of beach nourishment

Lundie Spence - Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Office Location: SC Sea Grant Consortium, COSEE Southeast
Phone: (843) 727-2078 Email: Lundie.Spence@scseagrant.org
Research Interests: Marine Education. Webpage

Dennis Stewart - MS, North Carolina State University
Office Location: Alligator River and Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
Phone: (252) 473-1131 x231 Email: dennis_stewart@fws.gov
Research Interests: Wildlife Biology
Webpage

Jill Stewart - Ph.D, UNC Chapel Hill
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service.
Phone: (843) 762-8609 Email: Jill.Stewart@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology with an emphasis of water quality Webpage

Allan Strand - Ph.D , New Mexico State University
Office Location: Grice Marine Laboratory, 216
Phone: (843) 953-9189 Email: stranda@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Plant evolutionary biology; demography; molecular ecology, conservation genetics. Webpage

Judy Thies - Ph.D , University of Minnesota
Office Location: USDA Vegetable Laboratory
Phone: (843) 402-5300 ext. 5317Email: Judy.Thies@ars.usda.gov
Research Interests: Plant pathology; root-knot nematode resistance.
Webpage

Theresa Thom - Ph.D, University of Georgia
Office Location: National Park Service
Phone: (803) 695-0214 Email: theresa_thom@nps.gov
Research Interests: Freshwater aquatic ecology. Webpage

Carl Trettin - PhD., NC State University
Office Location: Center for Forested Wetlands Research
Phone: (843) 336-5602 Email: ctrettin@fs.fed.us
Research Interests: Carbon and nutrient cycling in forested wetland landscapes, forest soils and hydrology Webpage

Daniel Tufford - Ph.D , USC Columbia
Office Location: Department of Biological Sciences
Phone: (803) 777-3292 Email: tufford@biol.sc.edu
Research Interests: Water resources management, watershed ecology, simulation modeling. Webpage

Saundra Upchurch - M.S., University of Florida
Office Location: 217 Fort Johnson Rd.
Phone: (843) 953-9223 Email: upchurchs@mrd.dnr.state.sc.us
Research Interests: Ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands; specifically life history of wetland plants, wetland soil morphology and chemistry, and hydrological conditions in wetlands.

John Vena - Ph.D, SUNY Buffalo
Office Location: Arnold School of Public Health
Phone: (803) 777-7333 Email: jvena@sc.edu
Research Interests: Epidemiology, communtiy-based research, environmental health, cccupational health. Webpage

Patrick Wechter - Ph.D, Clemson University
Office Location: US Vegetable Laboratory
Phone: (843) 404-5318 Email: wpwechter@saa.ars.usda.gov
Research Interests: Plant pathology, phytopathogens, plant-microbe interactions.
Webpage

Maria Whitehead - Ph.D, Clemson University
Office Location: Biology Deptartment, The Citadel, 171 Moultrie St.
Phone: (843) 367-2080 E-mail: maria.whitehead@citadel.edu
Research Interests: Ornithology, conservation, civic engagement.
Webpage

Chemistry (back to top)

Stacy Brown - Ph.D , University of Georgia
Office Location: 171 Moultrie Street
Phone: (843) 953-7791 Email: stacy.brown@citadel.edu
Research Interests: Examination of the prevalence of jet-fuel derived hydrocarbons in the environment; Development of SPME-GC-MS and GC-MS methods of the detection and quantification of marker hydrocarbons for jet fuel contamination in environmental matrices. Webpage

Frank Kinard - Ph.D , USC
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 310
Phone: (843) 953-5587 Email: kinardf@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Nuclear and environmental chemistry. Webpage

John Ledbetter, Jr. - Ph.D , Duke University
Office Location: MUSC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: (843) 792-4321 Email: ledbetjw@musc.edu
Research Interests: Short-lived enzyme transients, laser-induced biochemistry, protein dynamics, radicals.

Lou Ann Reed - Ph.D , MUSC
Office Location: NOAA - Charleston Center for Coastal Environmental
Health and Biomolecular Research Phone: (843) 762-8587
Email: louann.reed@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Toxicokinetic/pharmacokinetic studies of xenobiotics in aquatic species. Method development and analysis of both inorganic and organic compounds (including pharmaceuticals) in various matrices by ICP-MS, GFAAS, HPLC, and LC-MS-MS.Webpage

Joann Sullivan - Ph.D , USC
Office Location: MUSC - Basic Sciences Building, Rm. 101
Phone: (843) 792-0870 Email: sullivan@musc.edu
Research Interests: Infrared and Raman spectroscopy. Webpage

Classical Studies (back to top)

Jim Newhard - Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Office location: Randolph Hall
Phone: (843) 953-5485 Email: newhardj@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Landscape Archaeology; GIS
Webpage

Economics (back to top)

Calvin Blackwell - Ph.D , University of New Mexico
Office Location: Beatty Center Room 333
Phone: (843) 953-7836 Email: blackwellc@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Public Goods, Decision-making under Uncertainty, and the Safe Minimum Standard, Regulatory Compliance. Webpage

Marcia Snyder - M.S., University of London, University College London
Office Location: Beatty Center Room 411
Phone: (843) 953-4818 Email: snyderm@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Environmental and resource economics. Webpage

Geology (back to top)

Devendra Amatya - Ph.D , NC State University
Office Location: Center for Forested Wetlands Research
Phone: (843) 769-7012 Email: damatya@fs.fed.us
Research Interests: Watershed planning, monitoring and modeling, hydrologic studies, evaluating Hydrologic and Water Quality impacts of land use change and management practices. Webpage

Erin Beutel - Ph.D, Northwestern University
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 338
Phone: (843) 953-5591 Email: beutele@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Structural Geology and Environmental Geosciences and Tectonics. Webpage

Tim Callahan (MES Science Advisor) - Ph.D , New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Office Location: Science Center, Room 337
Phone: (843) 953-8278 Email: callahant@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Hydrogeology, Wetlands, and Water Resources. Webpage

James Carew - Ph.D , University of Texas at Austin
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 335
Phone: (843) 953-5592 Email: carewj@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Carbonate Petrology and Paleoecology. Webpage

Mitchell Colgan - Ph.D , University of California, Santa Cruz
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 339
Phone: (843) 953-7171 Email: mcolgan@loki.cofc.edu
Research Interests: Paleoclimatology, Coral reefs, and earth system science. Webpage

Briget Doyle - Ph.D., University of Missouri - Rolla
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 341A
Phone: (843) 953-0877 Email: doyleb@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Geohazards; GIS; Engineering Geology. Webpage

Kem Fronabarger - Ph.D , University of Tennessee
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 340-C
Phone: (843) 953-5509 Email: fronabargera@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Geoarchaeology, remote sensing, tectonics Webpage

M. Scott Harris - Ph.D , University of Delaware
Office Location: Science Center, Third Floor
Phone: (843) 953-0864 Email: harriss@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Coastal geology. Webpage

Dan Hitchcock - Ph.D , University of Georgia
Office Location: Clemson University, Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Georgetown, SC
Phone: (843) 546-1013 x236 Email: dhitchc@clemson.edu
Research Interests: Water quality, ecological engineering, phytoremediation, constructed wetlandsstormwater management practices, coastal development impacts, Low Impact Development (LID). Webpage

Robin Humphreys - MS , University of Charleston
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 124
Phone: (843) 953-7424 Email: humphreysr@cofc.edu

Steven Jaume - Ph.D , Columbia University
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 333A
Phone: (843) 953-5589 Email: jaumes@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Seismology and Earthquake Hazards. Webpage

Michael Katuna (MES Program Director) - Ph.D , UNC Chapel Hill
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 336
Phone: (843) 953-5588 Email: katunam@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Coastal sedimentology and coastal plain stratigraphy. Webpage

Norm Levine - Ph.D, Purdue University
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 334
Phone: (843) 953-5308 Email: levinen@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Geomorphology, Environmental Geology, GIS, Remote Sensing, GeoinformaticsWebpage

Robert Nusbaum - Ph.D , University of Missouri - Rolla
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 340B
Phone: (843) 953-5596 Email: nusbaumr@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Volcanology, remote sensing, mineralogy, and
planetary geology and Environmental Geoscience geology. Webpage

Elizabeth King Rhodes - MS , University of Charleston
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 115
Phone: (843) 953-8139 Email: rhodese@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Coastal geology and Env. Geosciences, performance of beach renourishment projects, remote sensing and GIS. Webpage

Cassandra Runyon - Ph.D , University of Hawaii
Office Location: Bell South - 201B
Phone: (843) 953-8279 Email: runyonc@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Planetary Geology, Geoscience Education, Geomorphology, Volcanology, using remote sensing, GIS and field work; Science and Math Education.

Leslie Sautter - Ph.D , USC
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 334B
Phone: (843) 953-5586 Email: sautterl@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Marine and Coastal Geology, Micropaleontology, and Geoscience/Marine Science Education, Director of Project Oceanica. Webpage Webpage2

Vijay Vulava - Ph.D , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 343
Phone: (843) 953-1922 Email: vulavav@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Dissolution, Transport, Bioavailability of coal tar contaminants in surface and groundwater environments, inorganic contaminants in soils and other gelogical materials. Webpage

Dan Waddill - Ph.D , Virginia Tech
Office Location: Environmental Technical Support - Naval Facilities
Engineering Command
Phone: (843) 820-5616 Email: Dan.Waddill@navy.mil
Research Interests: Soils and groundwater remediation projects. Webpage

Marine Biology (back to top)

William D. Anderson, Jr. - Ph.D , University of South Carolina
Office Location: Grice Marine Laboratory, Fort Johnson
Phone: (843) 953-9182 Email: andersonwd@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Systematics of fishes, particularly percoids. History of natural history. Webpage

Robert Boyles, Jr. - MS , University of Delaware
Office Location: SC Department of Natural Resources
Phone: (843) 953-9304 Email: boylesr@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Marine Policy, Resource management and policy, Governance. Webpage

Karen Burnett - Ph.D , University of South Carolina
Office Location: Hollings Marine Laboratory, Fort Johnson
Phone: (843) 762-8933 Email: burnettk@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Comparative immunology; environmental immunology; host-pathogen interactions. Webpage

Louis Burnett, Jr. - Ph.D , University of South Carolina
Office Location: Grice Marine Laboratory, Fort Johnson, Rm. 122
Phone: (843) 953-9170 Email: burnettl@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Environmental animal physiology of marine organisms; respiration, ionic regulation, acid-base regulation; cellular defense mechanisms. Webpage

Christopher Buzzelli - Ph.D , William and Mary
Office Location: 331 Fort Johnson Road
Phone: (843) 762-8912 Email: buzzellic@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Ecosystem Processes and Modeling; Landscape Ecology; Water Quality Monitoring

Mark Collins - Ph.D , University of Florida
Office Location: 217 Fort Johnson Road
Phone: (843) 953-9815 Email: collinsm@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Life history of reef, coastal pelagic, estuarine, and anadromous fishes.

Stacie Crowe - MS, Nova Southeastern University
Office Location: 217 Fort Johnson Road
Phone: (843) 953-9092 Email: crowes@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Benthic ecology, taxonomy of marine invertebrates

Guy T. DiDonato - Ph.D , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office Location: Holling Marine Lab, Fort Johnson
Phone: (843) 762-8932 Email: guy.didonato@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Estuarine ecology, aquatic ecology, aquatic monitoring and assessment, and watershed classification. Webpage

Robert Dillon, Jr. - Ph.D , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 200A
Phone: (843) 953-8087 Email: dillonr@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Genetics, Evolution and Ecology of Mollusks. Webpage

Giacomo DiTullio - Ph.D , University of Hawaii
Office Location: Hollings Marine Lab, Fort Johnson
Phone: (843) 953-9196 Email: ditullioj@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Marine phytoplankton ecology. Webpage

Patricia Fair - Ph.D , Clemson University
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service
Phone: (843) 762-8533 Email: pat.fair@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Environmental toxicology; marine mammal health and disease. Webpage

Sylvia Galloway - Ph.D , MUSC
Office Location: NOAA CCEHBR at the MUSC Marine Biomedical and Environmental Sciences Program
Phone: (843) 953-0772 Email: sylvia.galloway@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Marine biomedicine, marine resource management, Coral health and disease. Webpage

Thoms Grieg - Ph.D, University of South Carolina
Office Location: Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
Phone: (843) 762-8543 E-mail: thomas.greig@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Fisheries and aquatic ecology, ecology and evolution.

Janet Gooch - Ph.D , Mississippi State University
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service
Phone: (843) 762-8643 Email: Jan.Gooch@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Microbiology, Ecotoxicology. Webpage

Nancy Hadley - MS, College of Charleston
Office Location: 217 Fort Johnson Rd.
Phone: (843) 953-9841 Email: hadleyn@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Oyster reef studies; Oyster restoration. Webpage

Antony Harold - Ph.D , Memorial University of Newfoundland
Office Location: Grice Marine Laboratory, Annex 125
Phone: (843) 953-9180 Email: harolda@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Phylogenetic Systematics, Biogeography and Life History of Marine and Freshwater Fishes. Webpage

Fred Holland - Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Office Location: 331 Fort Johnson Road
Phone: (843) 762-8813 Email: Fred.Holland@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Integrated environmental assessments, watershed-aquatic system linkages, resource management, estuarine ecology, population biology, design and conduct of monitoring programs, benthic ecology and environmental training.

Jeffrey Hyland - Ph.D , University of Rhode Island
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service
Phone: (843) 762-8652 Email: jeff.hyland@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Marine benthic ecology, ecotoxicology, animal-sediment-pollution interactions, integrative assessments of coastal ecosystem health. Webpage

Peter Key - Ph.D , USC Columbia
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service / Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
Phone: (843) 762-8596 Email: pete.key@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Pesticide effects on vertebrate and invertebrate aquatic animal enzyme systems. Toxicology of insecticides, metals and PAHs in crustaceans and fish. Webpage

John Kucklick - PH.D, University of South Carolina
Office Location: Hollings Marine Laboratory
Phone: (843) 762-8866 Email: john.kucklick@nist.gov
Research Interests: Enviromental, Analytical and Marine Chemistry, Ecotoxicology. Webpage

John Leffler - PH.D, University of Georgia
Office Location: SCDNR Marine Resources Research Institute
Phone: (843) 953-3903 Email: lefflerj@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Dynamics of aquatic ecosystems; sustainble, environmentally-friendly aquaculture, seafood nutrition and human health.

Michael Mallin - Ph.D , UNC Chapel Hill
Office Location:Center for Marine Science, 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane,
University of North Carolina Wilmington, 28409
Phone: (910) 962-2358 Email: mallinm@uncw.edu
Research Interests: Ecology of phytoplankton and zooplankton; Urban and rural pollution sources, nutrient impacts, water quality management issues. Webpage

Wayne McFee - MS , Northeastern University
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service
Phone: (843) 762-8592 Email: wayne.mcfee@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Marine Mammalogy; marine mammal strandings, pathology, and dolphin/human interactions. Webpage

Steve Morton - Ph.D , Southern Illinois University
Office Location: 331 Ft. Johnson Rd.
Phone: (843) 763-8857 Email: steve.morton@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Marine ecology. Webpage

Erich Mueller - Ph.D, University of Miami
Office Location: Perry Institute for Marine Sciences
Email: evmresearch@gmail.com
Research Interests: Reef studies. Webpage

Sally Murphy - MS, USC Columbia
Office Location: Marshlands House, Ft. Johnson
Phone: (843) 953-9014 Email: murphys@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Research and management of sea turtles. Webpage

Geno Olmi - Ph.D , William and Mary
Office Location: NOAA Coastal Services Center
Phone: (843) 740-1230 Email: geno.olmi@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Estuarine and coastal ecology and management. Webpage

David Owens - Ph.D , University of Arizona
Office Location: 310 Randolph Hall
Phone: (843) 953-9176 Email: owensd@cofc.edu
Research Interests:The physiology, behavior and ecology of marine vertebrates with special interest in the reproductive biology of marine turtles and diamondback terrapins. Webpage

Craig Plante - Ph.D , University of Washington
Office Location: Grice Marine Laboratory, Fort Johnson
Phone: (843) 953-9187 Email: plantec@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Aquatic microbial ecology, benthic ecology, animal-microbe interactions. Webpage

Paul Sandifer - Ph.D , University of Virginia
Office Location: 331 Ft. Johnson Road, Rm. A112
Phone: (843) 762-8814 Email: paul.sandifer@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Coastal Issues, Marine policy and management, Aquaculture, Crustracean biology.

Denise Sanger - Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Office Location: 217 Ft. Johnson Rd.
Phone: (843) 953-9087 Email: sangerd@mrd.dnr.state.sc.us
Research Interests: Ecotoxicology with an emphasis in estuarine benthic ecology, sediment chemistry, sediment and water toxicology, design and analysis of ecological risk assessment data, status and trends monitoring of environmental water quality data, and management, creation and manipulation of data in relational databases.

Lori Schwacke - Ph.D , MUSC
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service
Phone: (843) 762-8541 Email: lori.schwacke@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Health and risk assessment for marine mammals, individual-based population models, wildlife epidemiology. Webpage

Geoffrey Scott - Ph.D., USC Columbia
Office Location: 219 Ft. Johnson Road
Phone: (843) 762-8508 Email: Geoff.Scott@NOAA.Gov
Research Interests: Ecotoxicology

Virginia Shervette - Ph.D, Texas A&M University
Office Location: Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine & Coastal Services, USC
E-mail: shervette@tamu.edu
Research Interests: Icthyology, habitat related growth of juveinle pinfish, fish communities.
Webpage

Thomas Siewicki - Ph.D , USC Columbia
Office Location: 219 Ft. Johnson Rd
Phone: (843) 762-8534 Email: Tom.Siewicki@noaa.gov
Research Interests: The development of models to characterize and predict levels of stressors in estuarine environments based upon combinations of landuse, physical, weather and other environmental variables.

Theodore Smith - Ph.D , University of Miami
Office Location: MRRI
Phone: (843) 953-9839 Email: smitht@dnr.sc.gov
Research interests: Culture of marine finfishes and crustaceans. Stock enhancement of recreational and endangered fish species.

Erik Sotka - Ph.D, University of North Carolina
Office Location: Grice Marine Laboratory
Phone: (843) 953-9191 Email: Sotkae@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Ecology and evolution of marine biotic interactions, Larval dispersal, Molecular ecology, Chemical ecology. Webpage

Jessica Stephen - MS, USC Columbia
Office Location: MRRI
Phone: (843) 953-9827 Email: stephenj@dnr.sc.gov
Research interests: Offshore Fisheries, Population Dynamics.

Glenn Ulrich - MS, University of Miami
Office Location: 217 Ft. Johnson Rd
Phone: (843) 953-9844 Email: ulrichg@dnr.sc.gov
Research interests: Reef, estuarine and elasmobranch fisheries management, applied population dynamics, fisheries ecology.

Robert Van Dolah - Ph.D , University of Maryland
Office Location: South Carolina Marine Resources Research Institute, Marine Resources Center, Ft. Johnson
Phone: (843) 953-9819 Email: vandolahr@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Benthic Ecology, Toxicology, Environmental Assessment. Webpage

Philip Weinbach - MS, University of Charleston and MUSC
Office Location: SC Department of Natural Resources
Phone: (843) 953-9163 Email: weinbachp@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Data Development and GIS Analysis. Webpage

Elizabeth Wenner - Ph.D , College of William and Mary
Office Location: SC Marine Resources Institute, Fort Johnson
Phone: (843) 953-9226 Email: wennere@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Marine Ecology, Crustacean Biology. Webpage

David Whitaker - MS , College of Charleston
Office Location: 217 Fort Johnson Road
Phone: (843) 953-9392 Email: whitakerd@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Crustacean fisheries,Sea turtle biology, Resource Management/Marine Policy. Webpage

Pace Wilber - Ph.D , Florida State University
Office Location: NOAA Fisheries, Ft. Johnson Marine Lab
Phone: (843) 740-1235 Email: Pace.Wilber@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Ecology; GIS. Webpage

Susan Bennett Wilde - Ph.D , University of Georgia
Office Location: Marine Resources Research Lab, SCDNR
Phone: (843) 953-9812 Email: wildes@dnr.sc.gov
Research Interests: Epiphytic cyanobacteria and aquatic macrophytes, reservoir limnology, and Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy; Harmful algal blooms.. Webpage

Eric Zolman - MS , University of Charleston
Office Location: NOAA / National Ocean Service
Phone: (843) 762-8624 Email: eric.zolman@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Marine mammals. Webpage

Mathematics (back to top)

Annalisa Calini - Ph.D , University of Arizona
Office Location: RSS Building, Room 325
Phone: (843) 953-5732 Email: calinia@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Geometrical aspects of completely integrable Partial Differential Equations, Chaos in finite and infinite dimensional Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Physics. Webpage

Gary Harrison - Ph.D , Michigan State University
Office Location: 344 Robert Scott Small Building
Phone: (843) 953-5734 Email: harrisong@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling of ecological, environmental, and health care systems Webpage

Martin Jones - Ph.D , Georgia Institute of Technology
Office Location: 345 Robert Scott Small Building
Phone: (843) 953-5735 Email: jonesm@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Stochastic Processes, Optimal Stopping Theory, Extreme Value Theory, Bandit Processes. Webpage

Mick Norton - Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
Office Location: 336 Robert Scott Small Building
Phone: (843) 953-5741 Email: nortonr@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Statistical Process Control, mathematical statistics, nonparametric statistics Webpage

James Young - Ph.D , University of California, Berkeley
Office Location: 221A Bell Building
Phone: (843) 953-7295 Email: youngj@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Mathematical statistics and probability; statistical learning and information theory; statistical inference for stochastic processes and chaotic dynamical systems; and emergent behavior of complex systems. Webpage

Philosophy (back to top)

Ned Hettinger - Ph.D , University of Colorado at Boulder
Office Location: 16 Glebe, Rm. 201
Phone: (843) 953-5786 Email: hettingern@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Philosophy (mainly Environmental Ethics and Environmental Aesthetics). Webpage

Physics (back to top)

Robert Dukes - Ph.D , University of Arizona
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 122
Phone: (843) 953-8073 Email: dukesr@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Climate change; light pollution. Webpage

Jon Hakkila - Ph.D , New Mexico State University
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 101
Phone: (843) 953-6387 Email: hakkilaj@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Computational astrophysics; Gamma-ray bursts, peculiar abundance stars, and multi-wavelength observational astronomy. Webpage

B. Lee Lindner - Ph.D , University of Colorado, Boulder
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 143
Phone: (843) 953-8288 Email: lindnerb@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Meteorology; planetary science. Webpage

Laney Mills - M.S., Ph.D , Louisiana State University
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 103
Phone: (843) 953-8072 Email: millsl@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Climate change, climate modeling, atmospheric physics, and computational physics (chaos, variable stars). Webpage

James Neff - Ph.D , University of Colorado
Office Location: Science Center, Rm. 144
Phone: (843) 953-5325 Email: neffj@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Solar and Stellar Physics; Magnetospheric and Atmospheric Physics; Energy Production and Policy. Webpage

Michael T. Ryan - Ph.D , C.H.P. , Georgia Institute of Technology
Office Location: Charleston Southern University Health Physics Editorial Office
Phone: (843) 863-7564 Email: HPEditor@csuniv.edu
Research Interests: Occupational radiation dosimetry, radiological and environmental health physics, and radiation protection policy. Webpage

Jeff Wragg - Ph.D , University of Missouri-Columbia
Office Location: 203B Bell Bldg.
Phone: (843) 953-5781 Email: wraggj@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Physics Webpage

Political Science (back to top)

Burton Callicott - M.S. , University of South Carolina
Office Location: RSS Library
Phone: (843) 953-0016 Email: callicottb@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Recycling Webpage

Jim Chitwood - Ph.D, UC Berkeley
Office Locataion: The Kiawah Conservancy
Email: jlchitwood04@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Nature conservancy issues.

John Creed - Ph.D , USC
Office Location: 26 Coming Street, Rm. 201
Phone: (843) 953-8137 Email: creedj@cofc.edu
Research Interests: International environmental policy. Webpage

Braxton Davis - Ph.D , University of Rhode Island
Office Location: Baruch Institute, University of South Carolina
Phone: (803) 777-5538 Email: braxton.davis@sc.edu
Research Interests: Coastal/marine science and policy interactions

Megan Desrosriers - MA, Brown University
Office Location: SC Coastal Conservation League, 328 East Bay St.
Phone: (843) 723-8035 x1021 Email: MeganD@scccl.org
Research Interests: Energy, transportation, water supply, built environment Webpage

M. Richard DeVoe - M.M.A. , University of Rhode Island
Office Location: SC Sea Grant Consortium
Phone: (843) 727-2078 Email: rick.devoe@scseagrant.org
Research Interests: Coastal and marine policy; aquaculture policy; land use-ecosystem relationships; managed wetlands issues; ocean observations; science policy. Webpage

Arthur Felts - Ph.D , Pennsylvania State University
Office Location: Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Institute for Urban Affairs and Policy Studies
Phone: (843) 953-6100 Email: feltsa@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Public administration and public policy. Webpage

Lynne Ford - Ph.D , University of Maryland
Office Location: 114 Wentworth Street
Phone: (843) 953-6531 Email: fordl@cofc.edu
Research Interests: American Politics.

Angela Halfacre - Ph.D , University of Florida
Office Location: 114 Wentworth Street, Room 104
Phone: (843) 953-5825 Email: halfacrea@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Environmental and regulatory policymaking, coastal and wetlands policy, environmental justice, community outreach and participation, environmental risk perception and communication. Webpage

Patrick T. Hurley - Ph.D , University of Oregon
Office Location: 114 Wentworth Street, Room 101
Phone: (843) 953-0856 Email:hurleyp@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Geography; Political ecology, Land conservation. Webpage

Phillip Jos - Ph.D , USC
Office Location: 26 Coming St., Rm. 102
Phone: (843) 953-5704 Email: jos@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Ethics and accountability studies, Public Policy. Webpage

Guoli Liu - Ph.D , SUNY Buffalo
Office Location: 114 Wentworth Street
Phone: (843) 953-5883 Email: liug@cofc.edu
Research Interests: International Politics, Sustainable Development. Webpage

Lindeke Mills (MES Policy Advisor) - J.D. , Georgetown University Law Center
Office Location: Joseph P. Riley Institute, 284 King Street
Phone: (843) 953-2002 Email: millsls@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Environmental and Land Use Law.

Marcela Rabi - MA, American University
Office Location: Bell 200-G
Phone: (843) 534-2639 Email: mrabi@netgate.com.uy
Research Interests: International development and the environment.

Heidi Recksiek - MEM, MPP, Duke University
Office Location: NOAA Coastal Services Center
Phone: (843) 740-1194 Email: Heidi.Recksiek@noaa.gov
Research Interests: Human dimensions of coastal resource management, Gulf of Mexico management issues. Webpage

Mark Tompkins - Ph.D, University of Minnesota
Office Location: University of South Carolina, Dept. of Political Science
Phone: (803) 777-4312
Email: tompkins.mark@sc.edu
Research Interests: Public Policy, including natural resources, health and economic development and Bureaucratic Accountability. Webpage

G. Trenholm Walker - J.D., University of South Carolina
Office location: 16 Charlotte Street
Phone: (843) 727-2200
Email: gtw@wiselaw.com
Research Interests: Environmental litigation, real estate development, conservation easements, real property litigation, and homeowners' associations Webpage

Sociology (back to top)

Tracy Burkett - Ph.D , USC
Office Location: 88 Wentworth St., Rm. 302
Phone: (843) 953-7143 Email: burkettt@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Research Methods, Political Sociology, Network Analysis, Environment and society. Webpage

Deborah McCarthy - Ph.D , Northeastern University
Office Location: 202 Wentworth
Phone: (843) 953-6513 Email: mccarthyd@cofc.edu
Research Interests: Environmental and Health Sociology, Alternative Transportation, Qualitative Methods. Webpage

Thomas Whitley - Ph.D , University of Pittsburgh
Office Location: Brockington Cultural Resources Consulting
Phone: (770) 662-5807 x13 Email: tomwhitley@brockington.org
Research Interests: GIS, Computer applications to archaeology, archaeological/anthropological theory. Webpage

Program Staff (back to top)

Mark McConnel - Program Coordinator, Master of Environmental Studies Program
Office Location: 284 King Street, Room 206
Address: College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424-0001
Phone: (843) 953-2000
Fax: (843) 953-2001
E-mail: mcconnelm@cofc.edu