天美传媒

 is an economist at the nexus of agriculture and the environment. She studies crop and livestock production in the U.S. and the Brazilian Amazon from many angles, including water pollution, deforestation, intensification, and climate change. She combines rigorous economic analysis and extensive field research to thoughtfully address complex challenges.
More information: Dr. Skidmore is an applied economist studying the interaction between policy, agriculture, and the environment. Her research focuses on how market-based and public agricultural policy in the United States and the Brazilian Amazon influence farmer behavior. She uses this lens to study indirect policy effects on the environment, including deforestation, GHG emissions, and water quality. She approaches these questions by combining econometric methods, big data, extensive field work, and collaboration with interdisciplinary partners in the U.S. and Brazil. She earned a master's at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Please see Dr. Skidmore's . 
Affiliations: Dr. Skidmore is an assistant professor in the  in the  (ACES) at the . 

Mariya Munir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). She earned her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology (2008) and a master’s degree (2010) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Environmental Engineering from Michigan State University. She then joined Virginia Tech as a Postdoctoral Researcher studying the effect of humidity on influenza A virus transmissibility in the environment. After joining UNC Charlotte in 2016, she established the Environmental Microbiology lab in CEE department located at EPIC building. Her primary research interest is in detection, removal, and inactivation of emerging biological contaminants in water and wastewater systems.
Her research focuses on four main area: Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment, Sustainable water/wastewater treatment, Metagenomics and Microbial Water Quality and Public Health related issues. Her experience on application of environmental microbiology techniques in studying antibiotic resistance bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants provides a strong background for her research on COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, she is involved in tracking SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater treatment plants in Charlotte and the UNC Charlotte campus wastewater COVID-19 surveillance study.

Erin Brooks research focuses on the site-specific management of complex ecosystems through extensive field-based experimentation and process-based spatially-explicit models. He has been the PI or Co-PI on numerous large interdisciplinary grants including the USDA funded REACCH, LIT and ISAID grants, and has been highly active in collaborative research with the USDA-ARS and USDA-Forest Service. This work has included fundamental landscape level hydrologic field experiments examining surface and subsurface nutrient transport, GIS-based distributed hydrologic, soil erosion, and crop modelling, in-stream sediment transport and nutrient cycling, forest fuel management and post wildfire mitigation treatments, spatial patterns in crop response and crop nitrogen uptake with remote sensing and modeling. His research has been conducted in widely diverse ecosystems including dryland agroecosystems, snow-dominated management forests, rangeland, tropical agricultural and forested ecosystems, perennial grasslands, deciduous forests and mixed urban environments. He has authored over 80 publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals.