About Us

Center personnel are composed of affiliated faculty under the direction of Dr. Richard K. Spruill, reporting through the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies at ECU. A current list of faculty affiliates is given below (more information about each is available by clicking on their name). Planned to open in May 2012, the CWRC central laboratory will be located on the third floor of the Science and Technology Building on East Carolina’s east campus. The facility will include field support labs, analytical and general purpose labs, as well as a GIS computational lab, office space for visitors, and meeting areas.

MICHAEL O’DRISCOLL, Director

EBAN BEAN, Engineering

LISA CLOUGH, Biology - North Carolina benthic communities; surface water quality

D. REIDE CORBETT, Geological Sciences/ICSP - Groundwater discharge; coastal geochemical processes

SCOTT CURTIS, Geography - Tropical meteorology and global precipitation

ROSANA NEITO FERREIRA, Geography - Climate variability and prediction, tropical meteorology

ADRIANA HEIMANN, Geological Sciences - Fe isotope geochemistry

CHARLES HUMPHREY, Environmental Health - Groundwater contamination

CRAIG LANDRY, Economics - Natural resource management

SCOTT LECCE, Geography - Surface-water hydrology; water resources

DAVID LOOMIS, Recreation and Leisure Studies/ICSP - Human dimensions

ALEX MANDA, Geological Sciences/ICSP - Hydrogeology and water resources

DEIRDRE MAGEEAN, Research and Graduate Studies - Demography

RON MITCHELSON, Research and Graduate Studies - Geography of transportation

SIDDARTHA MITRA, Geological Sciences - Surface water-ground water interactions; stable isotope hydrology

TOM RICKENBACH, Geography - Precipitation studies using satellite and radar data

ROGER RULIFSON, Biology/ICSP - Fisheries and water quality

RICHARD SPRUILL, Geological Sciences - Hydrology (Founding Director)

TERRI WOODS, Geological Sciences - Aqueous geochemistry