Graduate Students
Isabela Marie Arauz
Advisor: Tamlin Pavelsky
Remote Sensing applied in Coastal Flooding
iarauz@ad.unc.edu
(970) 889-9101
Mitchell #214
LinkedIn
Global Hydrology Lab
Jack Baer
Advisor: Antonia Sebastian
Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, ensemble modeling approaches, climate change, natural hazards, machine learning
jabaer@unc.edu
Mitchell 309
Flood Hydrology and Hazards
Kamya Bates
Advisor: Dr. Joel Fodrie
Coastal Ecology
batesnk@unc.edu
Murray 3105B
LinkedIn
Estuarine Ecology Lab
Garrett Braniecki
Advisor: Dr. Surge
Paleoclimatology, Low Temperature Geochemistry, Sclerochronology
braniegf@email.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall 219
Google Scholar Profile
Surge Lab
Mingying Chuo
Advisor: Nathan Hall
Marine Sciences
mchuo@unc.edu
3105A Murray Hall, CB#3300
Paerl Lab
Mark Ciesielski
Advisor: Rachel Noble
Marine Microbiology
mciesi3@unc.edu
@mark_ciesielski
Noble Lab
Melanie Cohn
Advisor: Scott Gifford
Marine Microbiology and Carbon Cycling
mcohn@live.unc.edu
3105K Murray Hall, CB#3300
Personal Website
@ScithoughtsM
Gifford Lab
Caroline Cooper
Advisor: Emily Eidam
Coastal modeling and sediment dynamics
coopcr@ad.unc.edu
Eidam Lab
Julianne Davis
Advisor: Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky
Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport, boreal hydrology, delta progradation, and morphodynamic modeling
jmsdavis@email.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
Global Hydrology Lab
Marissa Dudek
Advisor: Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky
Global Hydrology & Planetary Geology
mjdudek@email.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
Colin Eimers
Advisor: Dr. Rachel Noble
Marine Science and Policy
ceimers@unc.edu
Institute of Marine Sciences Room 265
Noble Lab
Eve Eisemann
Advisor: Dr. Antonio Rodriguez
Coastal Geomorphology
eeisemann@unc.edu
UNC-IMS
Google Scholar Profile
@morphodyn
Rodriguez Lab
Ileana Fenwick
Advisor: Janet Nye
Community Ecology, Quantitative Fisheries Ecology
ileanaf@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-1252
Murray Hall, CB#3300
@_ileanaf
Nye Lab
Benton Franklin
Advisor: Dr. Laura Moore
Barrier Island Migration
wbenton@ad.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall 223
Coastal Environmental Change Lab
Aliyah Griffith
Advisor: Dr. Karl Castillo
Coral Reef Ecophysiology and Conservation
aliyahg@live.unc.edu
3105A Murray Hall, CB#3300
@cnidariannerd
Lauren Grimley
Advisor: Dr. Antonia Sebastian
Hydrology and flood hazards
lauren.grimley@unc.edu
Personal Website
Google Scholar Profile
@_LaurenGrimley
Hydrology and Flood Hazards Lab
Sofia Gurevich
Advisor: Dr. Laura Moore
gis@unc.edu
Mitchell Hall
Coastal Environmental Change Lab
Sean Hart
Advisor: Johanna Rosman
Hydrodynamic Modeling, Interactions of ocean currents and waves with complex reef topography
seanhart@unc.edu
Murray Hall, CB#3300
Will Hefner
Topography in the Klamath Mountains and Coast Range of Northern California and Southern Oregon
whefner@unc.edu
Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
Joshua Himmelstein
Advisor: Antonio Rodriguez
Coastal Geomorphology
jhimmel@email.unc.edu
(919) 903-6320
3431 Arendell Street, Morehead City, NC 28557
Personal Website
Google Scholar Profile
@joshimmel
Rodriguez Lab
Hunter Hughes
Advisor: Dr. Donna Surge
Paleoclimatology
hphughes@email.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
@HPHughesCraft
Paleoclimate Lab
Sarah Wells Hull
Advisor: Kevin Stewart
Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology
sbrookw@live.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall 105A
Yubeen Jeong
Advisor: Harvey Seim
Physical oceanography
ybjeong@unc.edu
Google Scholar Profile
Seim Lab
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yubeen-Jeong
Lina Koschik
Advisor: Xiaoming Liu
Geochemistry
ckoschik@ad.unc.edu
(919) 962-1250
Mitchell Hall 305
Linkedin
Liu Lab
Gibson Leavitt
Advisor: Alberto Scotti
Internal Waves; Computational Fluid Dynamics
gleavitt@unc.edu
Johnson (YuanYu) Lin
Advisor: Adrian Marchetti
Phytoplankton physiology and marine microbiology
johnsony@live.unc.edu
3105C Murray Hall, CB#3300
Marchetti Lab
Alex Longo
Advisor: Dr. Xiaoming Liu
Planetary Science
azlongo@live.unc.edu
Mitchell 210A
AmericaSpace
Liu Research Group
Alexis Lopez
Advisor: Drew Coleman
arlopez1@email.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall CB#3304
Coleman Lab
Sofia Marino
Advisor: Eric Kirby
Structural Geology
smari115@ad.unc.edu
(919) 962-1252
Kirby Lab
Meredith Meyer
Advisor: Dr. Adrian Marchetti
Biological Oceanography
mgmeyer9@email.unc.edu
3117K Murray Hall, CB#3300
Personal Website
@mgmeyer9
Marchetti Lab
Dylan Morrison
Advisor: Dr. Drew Coleman
Geochronology
jacobmor@live.unc.edu
(828) 320-8713
Mitchell 319
Isotope Geochemistry Lab
Tyler O’keefe
Advisor: Joel Fodrie
Ecology
okeefet@unc.edu
(919) 962-1250
Google Scholar Profile
@OKeefeTyler
Fodrie Lab
Hunter Quintal
Advisor: Dr. Antonia Sebastian
Hydrology, Flood Risk
hquintal@email.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
Personal Website
Google Scholar Profile
@HunterQuintal
Watershed Hydrology & Flood Hazards
John Ratcliff
Advisor: Rick Luettich
Physical Oceanography / Storm Surge Modeling
jddratli@live.unc.edu
Luettich Lab
Mary Kate Elizabeth Rinderle
Advisor: Dr. Nathan Hall
Phytoplankton Ecology
rinderle@unc.edu
Murray 3105A
Paerl Lab
Muhammad Sadiq
Advisor: Eric Kirby
msadiq@ad.unc.edu
Yasamin Sharifi
Advisor: Antonio Rodriguez
Carbon sequestration in coastal ecosystems
ysharifi@unc.edu
Rodriguez Lab
Erika Shook
Advisor: Alecia Septer
Marine microbial ecology
eshook@unc.edu
3105B Murray Hall, CB#3300
Septer Lab
Anne Margaret Smiley
Advisor: Mike Piehler
Understanding ecosystem functioning in human influenced environments.
ahsmiley@live.unc.edu
Carolina Population Center #3124
@annesmileyy
Piehler Lab
Anna Strickland
Advisor: Dr. Kennet E Flores
Geochemistry and Petrochronology
strickah@ad.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall
Bhavyaa Tyagi
Advisor: Alecia Septer
Microbiology Microbiology and Symbiosis
btyagi@unc.edu
Septer Lab
Jose Daniel Velez
Advisor: Tamlin Pavelsky
Hydrology, remote sensing, fluvial hydraulics, river morphology, water quality
davelez@unc.edu
Mitchell Hall #214
Google Scholar Profile
@_josele__
Global Hydrology Lab
https://jdavecas.github.io/
Xikai Wang
Advisor: Xiaoming Liu
Lithium and potassium isotopes
xikai@live.unc.edu
Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
Liu Lab
Jianxing Wang
Advisor: Johanna Rosman
Physical Oceanography
jianxing@email.unc.edu
Murray Hall, CB#3300
Rosman Lab
Ami Ward
Advisor: Drew Coleman
Isotope geochemistry
ami1993@live.unc.edu
Coleman Lab
Liang (Acacia) Zhao
Advisor: Dr. Scott Gifford
Marine microbiology and carbon cycling
acacia@live.unc.edu
3105A Murray Hall, CB#3300
Gifford Lab