Professor, Biology
Director of the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy at ECU
Areas of expertise: science, astrobiology, origin of the universe, planetary exploration, NASA, life sciences, ecosystems ecology, community ecology, evolutionary ecology, deep sea hydrothermal vents, life in the universe, evolution, solar system exploration without contamination
Professor of biology
Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources
• Phone: 252-328-6810
• E-mail: donalds@ecu.edu
Areas of expertise: Estuarine and aquatic ecology, nutrients estuary, Pamlico River, water monitoring, pollutant removal stormwater, municipal water quality
Professor of biology
Director of the Field Station for Coastal Studies at Mattamustkeet
• Phone: 252-328-1757 or 252-328-1846
• E-mail: rulifsonr@ecu.edu
Areas of expertise: Fisheries biology; fisheries management; ocean migrations; fish: alewife, blueback herring, striped bass and spiny dogfish; bycatch reduction in the commercial shrimp fishery, Matttamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge on the Albemarle-Pamlico peninsula
Professor of biology and anthropology
• Phone: 252-328-6895
• E-mail: danielh@ecu.edu
Areas of expertise: cicadas, entomophagy, insects
Professor of biology
• Phone: 252-328-1835
• E-mail: christianr@ecu.edu
Areas of expertise: Microbial ecology; estuary, estuarine and salt marsh ecology