Curricula Vitae in Environmental Health Sciences

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Mohammed Baalousha Professor	Behaviour, Fate and Impact of Nanomaterials in the Environment	Dr. Mohammed Baalousha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at University of South Carolina. His areas of interest are, green synthesis of nanomaterials, environmental fate, behaviour, exposure and implications of to nanomaterials, and developing analytical tools and methodologies.
Dr. Devin A Bowes Associate Professor	interdisciplinary with a focus on the human-environment nexus, particularly as it relates to health, leverages community wastewater to analyze human excreted biomarkers	Dr. Bowes's research interests are interdisciplinary with a focus on the human-environment nexus, particularly as it relates to health outcomes due to health disparities. Her work pioneers the field of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), where she leverages community wastewater to analyze human excreted biomarkers indicative of various aspects of human health at population-scale in order to encourage inclusive and data-driven decision-making.
Dr. G. Thomas Chandler Dean	Ecotoxicology, marine/estuarine ecology, endocrine disruption, ocean acidification proxies using benthic foraminifera, standardization of invertebrate toxicity test methodologies.	Dr. Chandler's research interests are: 1) Aquatic ecotoxicology with emphasis on endocrine disrupting pesticides, UV-mediated toxicant behavior, contaminated sediment toxicology, reproductive toxicology and teratogenesis, and meiobenthic ecology/aquaculture; environmental risk assessment of sediment-associated xenobiotics in estuarine ecosystems,trophic transfer of lipophilic pesticides, metals and organometals, microcosm modelling of meiobenthic communities under pollution stress.
Dr. Alan W Decho Associate Dean	Microbiology- biofilms, antibiotic development, nanoparticle approaches to microbiology	Dr. Decho's laboratory researches attached microbial communities, called "BIOFILMS". Biofilm formation is important to the fundamental functioning of natural systems, but is also a significant problem in engineered systems and biomedical processes (e.g. hospital-acquired infections and persistent infections, biofouling of implant devices, and engineered drug delivery). We study processes related to biofilms including chemical communication among bacteria, nanoparticle delivery of antibiotics.
Kelly Dawn Fleming Instructor	climate change medicine	Kelly Fleming is interested in climate change medicine and hopes to help students understand how human influences on the environment ultimately affect human health.
Dr. Andrea Jilling Assistant Professor	soil organic matter dynamics at the interface between clay minerals, microbes, and plants, advance research that helps to promote efficient, climate-resilient and healthy soil	Dr. Jilling is a soil biogeochemist with research interests in soil organic matter dynamics at the interface between clay minerals, microbes, and plants. She is particularly interested in how these interactions mediate ecosystem-scale patterns in carbon and nitrogen cycling. Her lab applies soil biogeochemistry and stable isotope-based techniques and is equipped to analyze standard indicators of soil health.
Dr. William Jones Instructor	Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Marine Science	Dr. Joe Jones has research and teaching experience in marine biology from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing CA, Universitat Konstanz, Germany, University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of South Carolina, and the Netherland Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Holland
Dr. Gabriel J Kenne Research Assistant Professor		Gabriel Kenne is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Arnold School of Public Health. With a bachelor’s degree in biology and plenty of lab experience, Gabe Kenne had to get creative to find a way to marry his scientific interests with his passion for public health. His niche, it turns out, is applying his expertise on naturally occurring environmental toxins to ensuring the food we all eat is safe to consume.
Daniel J Kilpatrick Clinical Assistant Professor		Daniel J. Kilpatrick is an Affiliated Investigator whose research interests are Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Emergency Management, and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Robin Kloot Research Associate Professor	Conservation Management, Conservation Decision Support Systems, Supply of safe drinking water and sanitation to poor countries.	Dr. Kloot's (Buz) background in industry and consulting makes him a more applied thinker and he tends to combine research with outreach and service. Buz's main sponsor is the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) where he is working a video project that educates cattlemen about for pasture management practices.
Laura Langan Assistant Professor		Laura Langan, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Arnold School of Public Health.
Dr. Jamie Lead Professor	understanding nanoscale phenomena in the environment, including natural nanomaterials	His research focuses on understanding nanoscale phenomena in the environment, including natural nanomaterials, manufactured nanomaterials and their interactions. While nanotechnology has numerous benefits, the potential risks associated with the use of nanomaterials for human and environmental health are not fully understood.
Dr. Robert Sean Norman Associate Professor	Environmental Microbiology	One of his research areas is understanding how a rapidly expanding urban landscape is affecting the structure and function of microbial communities found throughout South Carolina watersheds. Because urbanization ultimately results in increased runoff of pollutants into the environment, we are examining the genetic capability of bacteria to degrade numerous priority pollutants and understanding how these emerging pollutants may be affecting the distribution of bacterial pathogens in environment
Dr. Dwayne Edward Porter Professor	data fusion techniques , natural coastal environment,, focus is on land-use management, environmental health,, public health concerns	I am interested in exploring and expanding the increasingly important roles that technology and technological innovations play in monitoring, assessing, modeling and managing our (coastal) environmental resources and associated health issues.
Eric Warren Pimentel Vejerano Associate Professor	Environmental Nanoscience	Eric Vejerano is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Environmental Health Sciences Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina.