Water in the Changing Coastal Environment of Delaware
PROJECT TEAM MEMBERS
University of Delaware

Kent Messer
Principal Investigator, S. Hallock du Pont Professor of Applied Economics. Project Expertise: Behavioral Response to Risk and Environmental Economics.

Holly Michael
Co-Principal Investigator, Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, and Professor, Unidel Fraser Russell Career Development Chair for the Environment. Project Expertise: Coastal Hydrology.
Leah Palm Forster
Co-Principal Investigator, Associate Professor of Applied Economics, Director of the Center for Experimental and Applied Economics. Project Expertise: Environmental and Agricultural Economics

Wei-Jun Cai
Associate Dean for Research and Mary A.S. Lighthipe Chair of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. Project Expertise: Marine Estuarine Chemistry, Carbon Cycle.

Sam Clem
Delaware Environmental Institute, Associate Director, Diversity, Education, and Outreach. Project Expertise: Education, Communications and Workforce Development.

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Masters in Data Science. Project Expertise: Remote Sensing, GIS, Climate impacts on Agriculture.

Amy Slocum
Director, Delaware EPSCoR. Project Expertise: Financial and project management, reporting and coordination.

Carolyn Voter
Assistant Professor, Brigid Hawk McVaugh ’74 and John B. McVaugh Jr. ’71 ’75M Term Professor of Environmental Engineering. Project Expertise: Water Resources Engineering and Integrated Hydrologic Modeling.
Graduate Students

CJ Evans-Ralston
Woking in the Messer lab focusing on environmental economics and willingness to pay

Lauren Hollinger
Working in the Mondal lab focusing on remote sensing and GIS

Andrea Kaufer
Working in the Car lab focusing on sensors and salinization detection
Delaware State University

Gulni Ozbay
Co-Principal Investigator. Delaware EPSCoR Outreach Director. Associate Dean of Cooperative Extension & Applied Research Professor of Natural Resources. Director of Integrative Ph.D. Program in Agriculture, Food, & Environmental Sciences. Project Expertise: Water Quality and Aquaculture.

Antonette Todd
Assistant Professor Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Delaware State University. Project Expertise: Plant Molecular Biology.

Yanfeng Yue
Professor of Chemistry. Project Expertise: Chemistry anf Functional Materials
Delaware Technical Community College

Heidi Gurdo
Instructional Director, Instructor, and Program Advisor. Project Expertise: Environmental Workforce Development.

Kyle Lampron
Environmenal Engineer. Project Expertise: Environmemntal Workforce Development.
Goldey-Beacom College

Deanna Merritt
Director of Grants and Partnerships. Project Expertise: Workforce Development and Partnerships.
Wilmington University

Milton Muldrow
Director, Natural Sciences Programs. College of Health Professions and Natural Sciences. Project Expertise: Marine Molecular Biology and Workforce Development.