Chad S. Lane
Department Chair
Dr. Chad Lane is a paleolimnologist interested in lake sediment records of paleoclimate and paleoecology and applications of stable isotope geochemistry to a wide variety of other topics ranging from biochemistry to environmental forensics. Dr. Lane primarily utilizes microfossils, biomarkers, and stable isotope data to detect changes in vegetation, hydrology, fire, and human land use over thousands of years. His work has focused in the circum-Caribbean and southeastern United States. Dr. Lane also co-coordinates the UNCW Forensic Light Isotope and Trace Environmental Spectrometry (FLITES) core instrumentation facility at the Center for Marine Science.
Education
Ph.D. in Geography, University of Tennessee
M.S. in Geography, University of Tennessee
B.S. in Environmental Sciences, University of Denver
Specialization in Teaching
Introduction to Weather and Climate
Paleoclimatology
Biogeography
Global Climate Change
Scientific Communication
Research Interests
Paleoclimate
Paleoecology
Prehistoric Human-Environment Interactions
Stable Isotope Geochemistry