Posted 09/20/2007

 Dr. Dwayne Porter named interim chair
 of Environmental Health Sciences

Dr. Dwayne E. Porter, an expert in using technology such as Geographic Information Processing (GIP) to study and manage the environment, has been named interim chair of the Arnold School’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. 

Porter will replace Dr. Tom Chandler, who has been named interim dean of the Arnold School.  Chandler took the temporary job while a national search is underway to replace former dean Dr. Donna Richter, who left the dean’s office at the end of August to become the executive director of the South Carolina Public Health Institute.

Porter is an associate professor and graduate director in his home department ENHS. . He also has a faculty appointment at the Baruch Institute for Coastal and Marine Sciences near Georgetown, where he is a research associate and director of the GIP Laboratory. 

In addition, he is on the faculty of the USC Marine Science Program and directs the activities of the NOAA NERRS Centralized Data Management Office in Georgetown. 

Porter earned a bachelor’s degree in biography – spatial analysis from West Virginia University in 1985.  In 1988, he earned a master’s in geography – GIS and remote sensing from the University of South Carolina.  He also earned his doctorate in geography – Geographic Information Processing from the University of South Carolina in 1995.