Sam Pearsall

Work

Sam Pearsall specializes in large systems ecology, environmental policy and planning, land conservation, climate change adaptation strategies and in-stream flow management.

Background

• PhD, landscape ecology & biogeography, University of Hawaii
• MPS, natural resources policy and planning, Cornell University
• BS, natural science education, University of Tennessee

Sam was director of science and conservation planning at The Nature Conservancy, NC Chapter and, prior to that, director of the TNC Pacific Science Program in Honolulu.

Adjunct professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences. Served on the U.S. EPA Coastal Elevations and Sea Level Rise Advisory Committee.

Sam is the lead author of more than 25 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including Adapting Coastal Lowlands to Rising Seas and Adaptive Management of Flows in the Lower Roanoke River, North Carolina, USA.