Team
Principal Investigator

Rachel Noble
Mary and Watts Hill Jr. Distinguished Professor: Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and the Department of Marine Sciences
Assistant Director: Institute for the Environment, Morehead City Field Site
rtnoble@email.unc.edu
Mary and Watts Hill Jr. Distinguished Professor: Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and the Department of Marine Sciences
Assistant Director: Institute for the Environment, Morehead City Field Site
rtnoble@email.unc.edu
Current Members


Denene Blackwood
Institute of Marine Sciences Research Analyst, and Laboratory Manager
denene@email.unc.edu
Institute of Marine Sciences Research Analyst, and Laboratory Manager
denene@email.unc.edu



Carly Dinga
Undergraduate researcher and previous Morehead City field site student, honors thesis fall 2020
carly22@live.unc.edu
Undergraduate researcher and previous Morehead City field site student, honors thesis fall 2020
carly22@live.unc.edu


Matt Price, IMS
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, PhD candidate
mtprice@email.unc.edu
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, PhD candidate
mtprice@email.unc.edu

Joe Purifoy
Captain
Captain

Lab Alumni
Grad Students |
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Jennifer Hsieh | 2005 | MPH | NYC Health |
Tanya Bean-McGhee | 2005 | MS | Pitt Community College |
Jason Gregory | 2005 | MS | LA county sanitation districts |
Angela Coulliette | 2008 | PhD | CDC |
Reagan Converse | 2009 | PhD | |
Leigh-Anne Krometis | 2009 | PhD | Virginia Tech |
Curtis Stumpf | 2011 | PhD | Crystal Diagnostics |
Sandra Mesquita | 2012 | PhD | Universidade do Algarve |
Raul Gonzalez | 2013 | PhD | HRSD Environmental Scientist |
Kellen Lauer | 2015 | MS | Environmental Business Specialists, LLC |
Justin Hart | 2017 | MS | Debra Shore Commissioner Office, Chicago |
Kelsey Jesser | 2018 | PhD | University of Washington |
Matthew Price | 2020 | PhD | |
Postdocs |
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Kathy Conn | USGS | ||
J. Steve Fries | 2007 | EPA | |
Mussie Habteselassie | University of Georgia | ||
Marc Verhougstraete | 2013 | University of Arizona | |
Brett Froelich | 2018 | GMU | |
Visiting |
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Simone Raszl | 2015 | PhD | PAHO/ PANAFTOSA-WHO |
Diana António Mestre | PhD | Scientific Officer at European Chemicals Agency | |
Undergraduates |
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Kelly (Stewart) Ginger | 2005 | Undergrad | Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc |
Zachary Williams | 2006 | Undergrad REU | NC State PhD student |
Brentley McNeill | 2007 | Undergrad | Point Reyes National Seashore Association |
Sarah Hatcher | 2010 | Undergrad REU | Epidemiologic Intelligence Service Officer |
Sarah Rhodes | 2011 | Undergrad REU | Occupational Disease Consultant at University of Toronto |
Chelsea Berg | 2011 | Undergrad REU | EPA (RTP) |
Marie English | 2013 | Undergrad | University of Tennessee, Graduate Student |
Sara Posey | 2013 | Undergrad | Mainspring Conservation Trust, Inc. |
Alexandra Snedeker | 2013 | Undergrad | Asia School of Business, Marketing Manager |
Mary Jo Weiss | 2013 | Undergrad REU | US Navy, Industrial Hygienist |
Maite Ghazaleh | 2014 | Undergrad | Postdoc, UNC |
Alexandra Lorentz | 2014 | Undergrad | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Ph D program |
Allison Kline | 2014 | Undergrad | (finished masters at UW in 2019) |
Ryan Leighton | 2015 | Undergrad | University of South Carolina, Graduate student |
Carly Dinga | 2019 | Undergrad | |
Sunny Choi | Undergrad | ||
Doug McIntyre | Undergrad | Environmental Air Team Supervisor at Chevron Licensed Attorney | |
Jereka Parker-Hunt | Undergrad | ||
Zeph Pendleton | Undergrad | Stanford University, Research Assistant | |
Sarah Hiser | Undergrad REU | SAS Data Scientist | |
Michael McKay Glasglow | Undergrad REU | ||
Steven Morgan | Undergrad REU | ||
Kate Morrison | Undergrad REU | Senior Scientist and Project Manager at Wood Environment | |
Luke Myers | Undergrad REU | Equity Shield Services | |
Jennifer Parker | Undergrad REU | ||
Maria Walker | Undergrad REU | Tufts Health Plan | |
Stephanie Walker | Undergrad REU | Senior Risk Consultant at Traveler’s |