Susan Lovelace

Adjunct Faculty

Education

Ph.D., 2008, East Carolina University

Research Interests

  • Linking well-being to ecosystem services and environmental health at multiple scales
  • Measuring the social values of coastal ecosystems to individuals and communities
  • Community resilience
  • Conservation management
  • Impacts of climate change

Current and planned research projects

  • identify, characterize and value coastal ecosystem services and well-being in the Southeast
  • environmental social sciences
  • extension of science to decision-makers - climate, coastal processes, coastal communities, coastal business and economics, aquaculture and fisheries

Publications

  • Ureta, J., Motallebi, M., Scaroni, A.E., Lovelace, S. and Ureta, J.C., 2021. Understanding the public's behavior in adopting green stormwater infrastructure. Sustainable
  • Cities and Society, p.102815.
  • Lovelace, S., Hanks, A., Fly E., Crawford, T., Allen, T., Christensen, A., Montz, B., Whitehead, J. 2019. Susceptibility of Public Health Impacts from Flooded Water,
  • Wastewater and Public Health Infrastructure: Guidebook for Community Level Assessment. South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium.
  • Allen, T., Crawford T., Montz B., Whitehead J., Lovelace S., Hanks A.D., Christensen A., Kearney G. 2018. Linking Water Infrastructure, Public Health, and Sea Level Rise:
  • Integrated Assessment for Flood Resilience in Coastal Cities. Public Works Management and Policy. Volume: 24 issue: 1, page(s): 110-139. Article first published
  • online: September 29, 2018; Issue published: January 1, 2019
  • Tipton, J., Guillette Jr., L.J., Lovelace, S., Parrott, B. B., Rainwater,T., Reiner, J.L. 2017. Analysis of PFAAs in American alligators part 1: Concentrations in alligators
  • harvested for consumption during South Carolina public hunts. Journal of Environmental Sciences, June 2017 online.
  • Tipton, J., Guillette Jr., L.J., Lovelace, S., Parrott, B. B., Rainwater,T., Reiner, J.L. 2017. Analysis of PFAAs in American alligators part 2: Potential dietary exposure of South
  • Carolina hunters from recreationally harvested alligator meat. Journal of Environmental Sciences. June 2017 online.