Lee is Director of the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creativity Office at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  He has a strong commitment to student learning through faculty engagement, especially as it involves undergraduates in research and/or creative inquiry both in an out of the classroom.  Lee also serves on the Executive Board of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), is a past Chair of CUR’s Geosciences Division, and is a past President of the Carolina Geological Society. 

Lee earned the B.S. and M.S. in Geology from UNC Wilmington, and after a brief teaching interlude at Western State Colorado University, he attended the University of Iowa to earn the Ph.D. in Geoscience in 2004.  Lee studied with Robert Brenner, Luis Gonzales, Greg Ludvigson, Brian Witzke, Art Bettis and Jeff Doral while at Iowa.

He holds memberships in the American Geophysical Union, Carolina Geological Society, Council on Undergraduate Research, and the Geological Society of America.

Research Interests: 

Sequence stratigraphy, collaboration and curriculum development