People
Core Team
Dr. Kirstin Dow
Lead PI
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
kdow@sc.edu
803.777.2482
Dr.
Kirsten Lackstrom
Research Associate
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
lackstro@mailbox.sc.edu
803.777.3463
Amanda Farris
Climate Outreach Specialist, Program Manager
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
afarris@sc.edu
803.777.6875
Dr. Ferdouz Cochran
Climate-Health Integration and Outreach Associate
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
ferdouz@email.unc.edu
919.962.7470
Sarah Watson
Coastal Climate & Resilience Specialist
CISA & SC Sea Grant Consortium
Charleston, SC
Sarah.watson@scseagrant.org
843.953.2097
Principal Investigators
Dr. Greg Carbone
Geography Department
University of South Carolina
greg.carbone@sc.edu
803.777.0682
Dr.
Charles (Chip) Konrad
Geography Department
UNC at Chapel Hill
Director, SE Regional Climate Center
cek@email.unc.edu
919.962.3873
Research Assistants
Ekaterina Altman
Ph.D. candidate
Environmental Health Sciences
University of South Carolina
katyaa@email.sc.edu
Elijah Charette
Bachelors Candidate
Environmental Science
University of South Carolina
charette@email.sc.edu
Jordan Clark
Masters Student
Geography Department
UNC at Chapel Hill
jordan.clark@unc.edu
Eleanor Davis
Ph.D. Candidate
Geography Department
University of South Carolina
eleanord@email.sc.edu
Stafford Mullin
Bachelors Candidate
Environmental Science
University of South Carolina
semullin@email.sc.edu
Rachel Woodul
Ph.D. Candidate
Geography Department
UNC at Chapel Hill
rachel.woodul@unc.edu
Collaborating Investigators
| Collaborating Investigator | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Randi Byrd | Community Engagement Coordinator | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, American Indian Center |
| Tim Callahan | Professor | Geology Department, College of Charleston |
| Michelle Covi | Assistant Professor of Practice | Old Dominion University; Virginia Sea Grant |
| Corey Davis | Applied Climatologist | State Climate Office of North Carolina |
| Jeff Davis | Professor | Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, The Citadel |
| Simon Ghanat | Assistant Professor | Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, The Citadel |
| Melissa Griffin | Assistant State Climatologist | SC State Climatology Office |
| Troy Hartley | Director; Research Associate Professor | Virginia Sea Grant; Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary |
| Jennifer Helgeson | Research Economist | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
| Shana Jones | Planning and Environmental Services Unit Program Manager | Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia |
| Norm Levine | Professor; Director | Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston; Santee Cooper GIS Laboratory and Lowcountry Hazards Center |
| Bryan McCloskey | IT Specialist | USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| Hope Mizzell | State Climatologist | SC State Climatology Office |
| Matt Petkewich | Hydrologist | USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center |
| Burrell Montz | Department Chair | Geography Department, East Carolina University |
| Henry Reges | National Coordinator | Colorado State University, Colorado Climate Center, Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network |
| Lauren Rouen | Research Associate | CISA |
| Kelly Smith | Assistant Director, Communications Coordinator | National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska |
| Rebecca Ward | Extension Climatologist | State Climate Office of North Carolina |
| Jessica Whitehead | Coastal Communities Hazards Adaptation Specialist | NC Sea Grant |
Advisory Committee
| Committee Member | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Jeff Allen | Director | South Carolina Water Resources Center at Clemson University |
| Frank Alsheimer | Science and Operations Officer | NOAA National Weather Service Columbia, SC |
| Dan Burger | Director, Coastal Services Division | SC Dept of Health & Environmental Control, Ocean and Coastal Resource Management |
| Kathie Dello | Director / State Climatologist | State Climate Office of North Carolina |
| M. Richard (Rick) DeVoe | Executive Director | SC Sea Grant Consortium |
| Liz Fly | Marine Conservation Director | The Nature Conservancy South Carolina Chapter |
| Dana Haine | Science Education Manager | Institute for the Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Suzanne Lea | Associate Professor | Department of Public Health, East Carolina University |
| Steve McNulty | Director | USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub |
| Ellen Mecray | Eastern Region Director | NOAA Regional Climate Services |
| Tancred Miller | Coastal & Ocean Policy Manager | Division of Coastal Management, NC Department of Environmental Quality |
| Hope Mizzell | State Climatologist | South Carolina State Climatology Office |
| David Reidmiller | Acting Director | DOI Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center |
| Linda Rimer | Liaison for State and Community Resilience | EPA Region 4 |
| Gregory Sprouse | Director of Research, Planning, and Development | Central Midlands Council of Governments, Columbia, SC |
| Adam Stein | Coastal Hazards Specialist | NOAA Office for Coastal Management, Stewardship Division |
| Ashley Ward | Senior Policy Associate | Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University |
| Susan White | Executive Director | NC Sea Grant and Water Resources Research Institute |
CISA Alumni
| Student | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Janae Davis | Masters, USC Department of Geography | A Tale of Two Landscapes: Examining Alienation and Non-Visitation Among Local African American Fishers at Congaree National Park |
| Reem Deeb | Masters, USC Earth & Environmental Resources Management | Climate Change Effects on Vibrio Bacteria in the Winyah Bay Estuary and the Project Spread of Vibrio under Future Climate Scenarios |
| David Eckhardt | Masters, USC Department of Geography | Improving Citizen Science Condition Monitoring Reporting: Condition Monitoring Scale Bar |
| Lauren Rouen | Masters, USC Department of Geography | Increased Perviousness Versus Urban Densification: Trade-offs Between Adaptation and Mitigation in a Changing Climate |
| Jay Fowler | Masters, USC Department of Geography | Cartographic Communication of Point Level Uncertainty |
| Jenna Hartley | Masters, UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Gastrointestinal Illness and Their Relationship with Precipitation Across the State of North Carolina. |
| Benjamin Haywood | PhD, USC Department of Geography | Birds and Beaches: The Affective Geographies and Sense of Place of Participants in the COASST Citizen Science Program |
| Erik Kabela | PhD, USC Department of Geography | NARCCAP Model Assessment and Future Projections for the Southeast United States |
| Nathan Kettle | PhD, USC Department of Geography | Coastal Climate Change Adaptation: The Influence of Perceived Risk, Uncertainty, Trust and Scale |
| Kirsten Lackstrom | PhD, USC Department of Geography | Institutional Adaptation and Drought Management in the Carolinas |
| Hope Mizzell | PhD, USC Department of Geography | Improving Drought Detection in the Carolinas: Evaluation of Local, State, and Federal Drought Indicators |
| Jinyoung Rhee | PhD, USC Department of Geography | A Regional Drought Monitoring system for the Carolinas |
| Sumi Selvaraj | Masters, USC Department of Geography | Assessing individual transit vulnerability to nuisance flooding in the Charleston, SC area |
| Margaret Sugg | PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Geography | Climate-Human Health Vulnerability: Identifying Relationships between Maximum Temperature and Heat-Related Illness across North Carolina |
| Sarah Yorty | Masters, USC Department of Geography | Drought Impacts on Water-Based Recreational Businesses in North and South Carolina |