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Staff | Faculty Affiliates | Research Assistants | Past Contributors Faculty Affiliates share an interest and enthusiasm for the Center's mission, conduct tourism research activities in conjunction with the Center, and mentor students working on sustainable tourism related research.
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| Derek Alderman, Associate Professor Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Derek H. Alderman's interests lie in the area of assisting communities with the development and planning of cultural tourism resources, specifically those related to heritage or historical issues. His research focuses on examining the relationship between the politics of place-making and tourism promotion and development and how tourist places and spaces serve as arenas for the negotiation of identity, social power, memory within communities. View faculty profile  |
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| Bryna Coonin Associate Professor Associate Professor, Academic Library Services, Bryna Coonin's interests lie in the area of assisting the ECU community with their research needs. As Coastal Resources Librarian serving the PhD program in Coastal Resources Management here at ECU, she has had the opportunity to serve students and faculty across the disciplines touching upon coastal resources—including geography, recreation, geology, economics, policy, cultural history, and maritime studies. Five years as a staff member in the Verona Langford North Carolina Collection within Joyner provided an additional opportunity to concentrate her efforts in research touching specifically upon the historical, political, tourism, and business environments in North Carolina. View faculty profile |
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| Scott Curtis, Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, and Assistant Director, Center for Natural Hazards Research, Scott Curtis is interested in the interrelationship between climate variability and tourism. His research focuses on tropical meteorology and global precipitation variability, using remotely sensed satellite data. He has written extensively on predicting and describing the El Niño/Southern Oscillation and its global impacts. He is also investigating the summertime climatology of precipitation over Central America and the Caribbean Sea. Current and future work includes connecting climate variability and change to extreme precipitation and applying that to hydrologic responses and flooding. View faculty profile |
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| William L. Obenour II, Associate Professor Associate Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies, William Obenour's research interests include destination image, tourism symbolic capital, sustainable tourism development and practices, travel constraints, tourism quality, travel narratives, and backpackers’ journeys. The specific problem statement for his research agenda is to investigate the formation of symbolic capital for destination development which is derived from the destination image and the tourists’ perceptions of a journey. View faculty profile |
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| Jason Oliver, Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Jason Oliver's interests are centered on advising and assisting businesses and organizations who want increase the adoption of environmentally friendly goods and services. He focuses on non-adopters and on understanding barriers to environmentally friendly product adoption. He is interested in outreach that helps companies and organizations apply this understanding to increase the rate of green product adoption, including the adoption of sustainable tourism. View faculty profile |
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| Melvin Weber, Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Department of Hospitality Management, and Vice President, Southeast Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education, Melvin Weber's interests lie in the area of personnel and economic development, realizing both in a community setting because a community can only be as good as the accumulative talent, skills, and abilities of its members. He seeks projects that allow him to use his education and background in personnel training and economic development to help the community members enhance their skills and abilities. View faculty profile | | |
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