People

Brannon Andersen is Professor and Chair of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Furman University, and Adjunct Professor in the School of the Environment at Clemson University.  He received his Ph.D. in Geology from Syracuse University.  He is co-director of the River Basins Research Initiative, a research program studying the impacts of land use change on watershed function in the upstate region of South Carolina.  His research focuses primarily on biogeochemistry of aquatic systems, but is expanding into areas of sustainability science, such as ecological footprint analysis and the link between agroecological methods of farming and soil carbon content.  Brannon also is a member of the Sustainability Planning Council at Furman University and an affiliate faculty member of the Shi Center for Sustainability.  Brannon lives in Greenville, SC, with his wife and daughters.

Suresh Muthukrishnan is the Henry Keith and Ellen Hard Townes Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Director of GIS and Remote Sensing Center at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina.  He received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Purdue University.  His research interests are in the areas of fluvial geomorphology, land cover change modeling and analysis, GIS curriculum in K-16, and application of GIS and remote sensing to understand the impacts of human-environmental interactions.  He also pursues study of landscapes and landscape changes through repeat photography and extremely high resolution panoramic imaging using GigaPan system.  He enjoys collaborating with undergraduate students on research projects of local significance and has published more than a dozen papers and 40 conference presentations with undergraduate students at Furman University.  Suresh is also an affiliate faculty member at the Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University.  Suresh lives in Greenville, SC, with his wife and daughter.

Greg Lewis currently is an Associate Professor of Biology at Furman University.  He received his B.S. in Biology from Furman in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University in 1998.  He before returning to Furman as a faculty member in 2000, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory near Aiken, South Carolina.  Greg has participated in the River Basins Research Initiative at Furman since 2001.  His research focuses on the biogeochemistry of urban and rural watersheds in the piedmont of South Carolina.  His teaching responsibilities include ecology, environmental systems, and research methods in biology, and he also chairs the Environmental Studies minor at Furman.  Greg serves as the faculty coordinator of the Shi Center’s affiliate faculty program.  Greg lives in Greenville, SC, with his wife and daughter.

Carmel Price is an Associated Colleges of the South Postdoctoral Fellow of Environmental Sociology at Furman University. She received her PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2011. Her areas of specialization include environmental demography, environmental values, gender and the environment, the sociology of food, and quantitative methods/survey design. She is published in the Journals Population Research and Policy Review and International Sociology and is currently working on publishing her dissertation titled “Women and the Environment: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Gender and Demographic Characteristics of Environmental Concern.”  Carmel is a member of the Shi Center’s affiliate faculty.  She lives in Greenville, SC, with her husband and young son, Owen.

Katherine Kransteuber serves as Program Coordinator at the Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University.  A graduate of Furman, she returned to her alma mater after spending several years teaching outdoor education and completing her MS in Natural Resources at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont.  At the Shi Center, she coordinates the Shi Center’s student, faculty, and community programs, and manages the Shi Center’s interdisciplinary research initiatives.  She lives in Greenville, SC, with her husband, Jake, and young son, Grady, who will be joining her on the trip to Vermont in July.