People
Faculty
Greg Characklis, PhD
W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Director, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems
charack@email.unc.edu
Website: https://gregcharacklis.web.unc.edu//
Jordan Kern, PhD
Associate Director, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems, Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Environmental Sciences and Engineering; Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State
jkern@ncsu.edu
Website: https://kern.wordpress.ncsu.edu//
Projects
- Biofuels “Designing Future Sustainable Algal Biofuel Production Facilities.”
- Catawba Basin “Evaluating the Physical and Financial Vulnerabilities of Power Systems to Drought in the Southeastern U.S.”
- Central Valley “The Sustainability-Productivity Tradeoff: Water supply vulnerabilities and adaptation opportunities in California’s coupled agricultural and energy sectors”
- Columbia Basin “Leveraging Natural Resource Concentration and Conveyance in the Energy Water Food Nexus to Increase Security and Resilience”
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Simona Denaro, PhD
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
sdenaro@live.unc.edu
Projects
- Catawba Basin “Evaluating the Physical and Financial Vulnerabilities of Power Systems to Drought in the Southeastern U.S.”
- Columbia Basin “Leveraging Natural Resource Concentration and Conveyance in the Energy Water Food Nexus to Increase Security and Resilience”
Harrison (H.B.) Zeff, PhD
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
zeff@live.unc.edu
Website: http://hbzeff.web.unc.edu/
Projects
- Central Valley “The Sustainability-Productivity Tradeoff: Water supply vulnerabilities and adaptation opportunities in California’s coupled agricultural and energy sectors”
- Galveston Bay “Decision-Making After an Environmental Emergency: Impacts and mitigation of environmental emergency-related contamination events across the-to-outcome continuum”
Graduate Students
Ben Foster, MS
Doctoral Student
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
fbenjami@live.unc.edu
Website: http://benfoster.web.unc.edu/
Project
- Mississippi Basin “Characterizing and managing the financial risks of drought along the Mississippi River”
David Gorelick, MS
Doctoral Student
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
degorelick@unc.edu
Website: https://degorelick.web.unc.edu//
Project
- Research Triangle “Integrating Raw Water Transfers Into an Eastern United States Management Context”
Andrew Hamilton, MS
Doctoral Student
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
andrew.hamilton@unc.edu
Project
- Central Valley “The Sustainability-Productivity Tradeoff: Water Supply Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Opportunities in California’s Coupled Agricultural and Energy Sectors”
Yufei Su, MS
Doctoral Student
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
yufeisu@live.unc.edu
Projects
- Central Valley “The Sustainability-Productivity Tradeoff: Water supply vulnerabilities and adaptation opportunities in California’s coupled agricultural and energy sectors”
- Columbia Basin “Leveraging Natural Resource Concentration and Conveyance in the Energy Water Food Nexus to Increase Security and Resilience”
Rosa Cuppari
Doctoral Student
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
rcuppari@live.unc.edu
Project
- Columbia Basin “Leveraging Natural Resource Concentration and Conveyance in the Energy Water Food Nexus to Increase Security and Resilience”
Rachel Kleiman
Master’s Student
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
rkleiman@live.unc.edu
Project
- Biofuels “Designing Future Sustainable Algal Biofuel Production Facilities.”
Joy Hill
Master’s Student
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
jehill17@live.unc.edu
Project
- Columbia Basin “Leveraging Natural Resource Concentration and Conveyance in the Energy Water Food Nexus to Increase Security and Resilience”
Corey Pahel-Short
Master’s Student
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
coreyps@live.unc.edu
Administrative Staff
Zamira Gleason, MBA
Administrative Assistant
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
zgleason@email.unc.edu