Children Coping
Katie Rosanbalm
A senior research scientist at Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy, Rosanbalm can discuss dealing with child trauma in the wake of a disaster, for instance how to help affected individuals cope.
https://sanford.duke.edu/people/staff/rosanbalm-katie-d
(919) 668-3294; katie.rosanbalm@duke.edu)
Coastal Impact
Emily S. Bernhardt
Bernhardt, an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, studies how aquatic ecosystems are being altered by land-use change (urbanization, agriculture, mining) global change (rising CO2, rising sea levels) and chemical pollution. Her research includes the effects of saltwater intrusion on North Carolina’s coastal ecosystems and communities.
https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/bernhardt
(919) 660-7318; emily.bernhardt@duke.edu
Environmental Law/Hog Farms
Ryke Longest
Longest is a clinical professor at Duke Law and the Nicholas School of the Environment and director of the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. He previously worked at the North Carolina Department of Justice, where he helped negotiate and lead the state’s implementation of two multimillion-dollar settlement agreements aimed at reducing the adverse impacts from swine farming in North Carolina. He also advised environmental agencies regarding regulation of swine farms and litigated enforcement actions against more than a dozen animal waste facilities.
https://law.duke.edu/fac/longest/
(919) 613-7207; longest@law.duke.edu
Michelle Nowlin
Nowlin is a clinical professor of law at Duke Law and the Nicholas School of the Environment and supervising attorney for the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Prior to joining Duke’s faculty, Nowlin was a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, where she led the Hog Industry Project to develop a comprehensive regulatory program for concentrated animal feeding operations. After Hurricane Floyd, Nowlin successfully sued the state over mismanagement of hog operations.
https://law.duke.edu/fac/nowlin/
(919) 613-8502; nowlin@law.duke.edu
Flooding
Lee Ferguson
An associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Ferguson was one of the lead scientists investigating the Cape Fear GenX contamination issue and the subsequent program to search for other potential pollutants. He can talk about the effects of flooding and the dangers lurking for contamination from sources such as chemical plants, hog farms and sewer treatment systems.
https://cee.duke.edu/faculty/lee-ferguson
(919) 660-5460; lee.ferguson@duke.edu
Mark Wiesner
A professor of civil and environmental engineering, Wiesner can talk about the effects of flooding and the dangers lurking for contamination from sources such as chemical plants, hog farms, and sewer treatment systems.
https://cee.duke.edu/faculty/mark-wiesner
(919) 660-5292; wiesner@duke.edu
Health Hazards
Dr. John Jacob Freiberger
Dr. Freiberger, an adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and a hyperbaric medicine specialist at Duke University School of Medicine, can talk about precautions and dangers related to carbon monoxide poisoning from gas-powered generators.
https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/our-faculty/john-jacob-freiberger
(919) 668-0032; john.freiberger@duke.edu
Dr. Julia Kravchenko
An assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine, Dr. Kravchenko’s area of research interests includes analysis of health impacts of environmental exposures on disease risk and patients’ survival, including the studies on the effects of water quality, air pollution and weather/extreme temperatures on human health.
https://ehs.duke.edu/2017/julia-kravchenko/
(contact Sarah Avery: (919) 660-1306; sarah.avery@duke.edu)
Dr. H. Kim Lyerly
Lyerly, a professor of cancer research at the Duke University School of Medicine and professor in the departments of surgery, immunology and pathology, can talk about exposure to animals/insects and heat or cold. He is director of the Environmental Health Scholar Program and is co-editor of the North Carolina Medical Journal issue on health and environment in the state.
(contact Sarah Avery: (919) 660-1306; sarah.avery@duke.edu)
Hurricane Recovery
Andrew Read
Read, a professor of marine biology, directs the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, N.C. He can discuss the process of hurricane recovery.
https://nicholas.duke.edu/marinelab/people/faculty/read
(252) 504-7590; aread@duke.edu
Infrastructure
Henri Gavin
Gavin, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has expertise in structural dynamics and structural loads from environmental factors such as earthquakes and winds. He is also director of the Structural Dynamics and Seismic Response Control Laboratory.
https://cee.duke.edu/faculty/henri-gavin
(919) 660-5201; henri.gavin@duke.edu
Henry Petroski
A professor of civil and environmental engineering and an expert on the evolution of engineering design, Petroski can discuss the nation’s aging critical infrastructure. He has written more than 15 books on engineering and technology, most of which deal with engineering’s close reliance on failure to perfect designs and the evolution of common items such as the pencil and bridges.
https://cee.duke.edu/faculty/henry-petroski
(919) 660-5203; petroski@duke.edu
Policy
Elizabeth Albright
Albright studies how policy decisions are made in response to storms and other extreme weather events, and is an associate professor of the practice of environmental science and policy methods at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.
https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/albright
(252) 655-1366 (cell); elizabeth.albright@duke.edu
Mark Borsuk
Borsuk, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, is an expert on risk assessment, including areas ranging from designing large structures that can withstand natural disasters to setting policy in regards to protecting environmental resources.
https://cee.duke.edu/faculty/mark-borsuk
(919) 660-1767; mark.borsuk@duke.edu
Martin Doyle
Doyle studies river management and restoration, including aging river infrastructure and flooding. He can discuss how river management affects the risk of flooding during heavy rainfall. He is a professor of river science and policy at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment and directs the water policy program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Doyle is also a former fellow with the Department of the Interior.
https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/doyle
martin.doyle@duke.edu
Predicting Hurricanes
Andrew Bragg
Bragg, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, can discuss why predicting hurricanes is inherently difficult due to the chaotic nature of the environment. Bragg can also discuss the physical processes that give rise to hurricanes, and how computer models are used to help predict the behavior of these chaotic systems. Audio interview on why hurricanes are so unpredictable.
https://cee.duke.edu/faculty/andrew-bragg
(919) 660-5511; andrew.bragg@duke.edu
Water Quality
Avner Vengosh
Vengosh is professor of geochemistry and water quality. He has documented environmental issues related to coal ash, which carries arsenic, mercury, lead and selenium and spilled into North Carolina’s Cape Fear River from a power plant during Hurricane Florence. Vengosh has also presented scientific testimony on coal ash disposal to Congress and his lab has published 13 peer-reviewed studies on it.
https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/vengosh
(919) 681-8050; vengosh@duke.edu