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• Stuart Hamilton was born and raised in Crosby, England. He attended Canterbury University in England, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Southern Mississippi. He is now the Chair of Coastal Studies at ECU and a professor in the department. He is based part-time at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and part-time at the ECU campus in Greenville, NC. Hamilton is a remote sensor and geographic information systems specialist interested in nearshore environments, particularly mangrove forest change and other estuarine processes. Much of his research is conducted at his three sites in Jinja in Uganda, Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador, and Barreirinhas in Brazil.