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John D. Albertson
Title(s): Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: +1 919 660 5468
Fax: +1 919 660 5219
E-mail: john.albertson@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: hydrology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: atmospheric science, air quality, decision analysis, desertification, global climate change, land use and sprawl
Statement of Expertise: surface hydrology and boundary layer meteorology; exchange of mass, heat, and momentum across the land-atmosphere interface; large eddy simulation of land-atmosphere interaction; turbulent transport processes; and dynamic coupling of energy, wate
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Richard M. Anderson
Title(s): Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8130
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: richard.anderson@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental systems analysis
Secondary Areas of Expertise: decision analysis
Statement of Expertise: environmental systems analysis, decision analysis, watershed management
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Marcia A. Angle
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Environmental Science
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-490-1481
Fax: 919-490-1581
E-mail: maangle@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: population growth
Statement of Expertise: international health and global epidemiology, with a special focus on evaluating the strength of the epidemiologic evidence linking various environmental exposures to human disease.
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Paul A Baker
Title(s): Professor
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919 684 6450
Fax: 919 684 5833
E-mail: pbaker@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: biogeochemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: marine science, oceanography, ecology
Statement of Expertise: Geochemistry of water and sediments. Climate and paleoclimate reconstruction. Strong interest in interdisciplinary studies in earth and ocean sciences, ecology, climate, anthropology, geography
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Richard T Barber
Title(s): Harvey W. Smith Professor Emeritus of Biological Oceanography
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: (252) 504-7578
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: rbarber@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: oceanography
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry, ecology
Statement of Expertise: Regulation of ocean productivity by physical processes such as climate.
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Lori Snyder Bennear
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8083
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: lori.bennear@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental economics
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: Environmental Economics. Evaluation of effectiveness of environmental regulations
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Emily S. Bernhardt
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Biogeochemistry
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-660-7318
E-mail: ebernhar@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: biogeochemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: ecology, global change ecology, global climate change, land use and sprawl
Statement of Expertise: Current projects 1) Linking geomorphic structure to biogeochemical function in stream and riparian ecosystems, 2) Estimating the importance of soil and sediment organic matter in controlling nitrogen processing, 3) Evaluating the effectiveness of river re
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Fred Kofi Boadu
Title(s): Associate Professor
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-660-5432
Fax: 919-660-5219
E-mail: boadu@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: hydrology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: soil science, solid earth processes
Statement of Expertise: Non-destructive characterization of geomaterials.
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Celia Bonaventura
Title(s): Professor of Cell Biology
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7591
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: bona@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental chemistry
Statement of Expertise: Environmental Biochemistry. Structure-function relationships in respiratory proteins. Molecular adaptations of organisms to the marine environment. Environmental education about life in variable and polluted marine environments.
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Joseph Bonaventura
Title(s): Research Professor of Cell Biology
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7613
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: joeb@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, ecology, estuarine ecosystems, fisheries and fish ecology, fisheries policy and management, marine biomedicine, oceanography
Statement of Expertise: Marine biomedicine, physiology, and biochemistry. Research systems include invertebrates, fish, marine organisms, humans.
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Alan E. Boudreau
Title(s): Professor of Geology and Director of Graduate Studies, EOS
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-5646
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: boudreau@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: petrology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: geochemistry, solid earth processes
Statement of Expertise: Origins of igneous layering.
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Nora Bynum
Title(s): Adjunct Associate Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-452-1388
E-mail: nbynum@amnh.org
Primary Area of Expertise: conservation biology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, endangered/threatened species, tropical ecology
Statement of Expertise: nternational capacity building and training in biodiversity conservation -- Seasonality, phenology and global change
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Lisa M. Campbell
Title(s): Rachel Carson Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7628
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: lcampbe@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental policy
Secondary Areas of Expertise: coastal zone management, environmental sociology and anthropology, fisheries policy and management
Statement of Expertise: Wildlife conservation policy, environmental values, international institutions for environment and development, and rural development in Latin America, the Caribbean Caribbean and Africa.
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Jens A. Carlsson
Title(s): Visiting Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Marine Science and Conservation
Phone: 252-504-7615
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: jens.carlsson@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology
Statement of Expertise: aquatic organisms, conservation and population genetics, kin selection and behavior, fish and shellfish fisheries.
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William Lloyd Chameides
Title(s): Dean of the Nicholas School
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-613-8004
Fax: 919-613-8061
E-mail: bill.chameides@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: atmospheric science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: air quality, biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry, global climate change
Statement of Expertise: global, regional, and urban-scale environmental change, causes, impacts, and paths toward sustainable development.
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Norman L. Christensen
Title(s): Professor of Ecology and Founding Dean of the Nicholas School
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8052
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: normc@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, conservation biology, environmental policy, forest fires and fire ecology, forest management and silviculture, global change ecology, terrestrial ecosystems
Statement of Expertise: Community Ecology. Disturbance and Succession. Ecosystem Management. Sustainable Forest Management. Forest Fires. Strong interest in the application of basic science to management problems
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James S. Clark
Title(s): H.L. Blomquist Professor of Environment, Professor of Biology, Professor of Statistics
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8036
Fax: 919-660-7425
E-mail: jimclark@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: population growth, forest fires and fire ecology, global change ecology, statistics
Statement of Expertise: Ecology of forests and grasslands. Statistics and population dynamics.
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Bruce H. Corliss
Title(s): Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919 684 2951
Fax: 919 684 5833
E-mail: bruce.corliss@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: oceanography
Statement of Expertise: Development of paleoclimatic proxies; Deep-sea benthic foraminifera; Micropaleontology; Cenozoic paleoceanography.
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Michael Coyne
Title(s): Research Scientist
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8119
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: mcoyne@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: geospatial technologies, marine science
Statement of Expertise: Sea turtle biology and conservation, use of satellite telemetry and remote sensing to understand the ecology of marine protected species, and developing tools to facilitate data sharing and distribution.
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Kevin Craig
Title(s): Assistant Research Scientist
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7576
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: kevin.craig@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, fisheries and fish ecology, marine science, oceanography
Statement of Expertise: Marine fish ecology and fisheries. Spatial and population modeling. Response of estuarine and coastal fishes to human-induced environmental stressors, including nutrient loading and hypoxia. Field telemetry. Marine fisheries management and conservation.
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Larry B. Crowder
Title(s): Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7637
Fax: 252-504-7638
E-mail: lcrowder@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, conservation biology, fisheries and fish ecology, fisheries policy and management, geospatial technologies, marine science, oceanography
Statement of Expertise: Marine ecology and fisheries. Population and community ecology. Endangered species/fisheries conflicts, especially sea turtles and bycatch in fishing gear. Marine conservation biology and policy. International affairs.
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Richard T. Di Giulio
Title(s): Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8024
Fax: 919-668-1799
E-mail: richd@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental genomics, environmental health, estuarine ecosystems, marine biomedicine, water quality
Statement of Expertise: Environmental toxicology, environmental health, and freshwater and estuarine pollution.
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Gary Dwyer
Title(s): Research Scientist in Earth and Ocean Sciences
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-681-8164
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: gsd3@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: earth surface processes
Secondary Areas of Expertise: marine science
Statement of Expertise: Development and application of marine paleoenvironmental indicators. Paleoceanography. Paleoclimatology. Carbonate sedimentology. Marine geology.
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Karen Lind Eckert
Title(s): Research Scientist
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-727-1600
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: keckert@widecast.org
Primary Area of Expertise: conservation biology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, coastal zone management, ecology
Statement of Expertise: Sea Turtle Biology and Management; International Law and Policy; Conservation Biology. Caribbean issues associated with national sea turtle recovery planning; population-level monitoring and research; coastal zone management; community development and involvement; public outreach and education; MEAs.
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Scott A. Eckert
Title(s): Research Scientist
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-727-1600
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: seckert@widecast.org
Primary Area of Expertise: conservation biology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: marine science
Statement of Expertise: Endangered Species Research and Management, Diving Physiology, Ecological Physiology, Conservation Biology, Marine Turtle Management and Conservation
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David J. Erickson III
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Computational Biogeochemistry
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 865-574-3136
Fax: 865-574-0680
E-mail: ericksondj@ornl.gov
Primary Area of Expertise: global climate change
Statement of Expertise: Development and application of numerical biogeochemistry models that employ satellite data, high performance computing, experimental results and extensive theoretical constructs to simulate and predict climate change potentialities.
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Richard B. Forward
Title(s): Professor of Zoology and Bass Fellow
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7610
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: rforward@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Statement of Expertise: Behavior and physiology of marine animals during vertical and horizontal migrations. Marine crabs and fishes. Marine ecology.
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Jonathan H Freedman
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Phone: 919-541-7899
Fax: 919-541-3641
E-mail: freedma1@niehs.nih.gov
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental genomics
Statement of Expertise: Molecular biology, cell biology and molecular toxicology. C. elegans, tissue culture cells, and zebrafish. Toxicogenomics, the relation between toxicant exposure and gene expression.
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Deborah Rigling Gallagher
Title(s): Assistant Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: +1 919 613 8138
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: deb.gallagher@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: business and the environment
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental law, environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: Interaction of business and the environment, sustainable business, environmental management systems, public/private sector partnerships and environmental policy implementation. Also, qualitative research and policy analysis methodologies
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Alan E Gelfand
Title(s): James B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919 668 5229
Fax: 919 684 8594
E-mail: alan@stat.duke.edu
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Alex Glass
Title(s): Instructor, Invertebrate Paleontology and Science Education
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-6167
E-mail: alex.glass@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: geology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, ecology, marine science
Statement of Expertise: paleontology, evolution, fossil echinoderms, geology, nature of science, science education. Glass has a strong interest in relationship between science and religion, particularly the public's debate over creation and evolution.
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Peter K. Haff
Title(s): Professor of Geology and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-5902
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: haff@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: earth surface processes
Secondary Areas of Expertise: geomorphology, soil science
Statement of Expertise: Field work and computation on earth surface processes, including the role of humans as geomorphic agents, in the dynamics of the modern technological environment, and in limitations to modeling and prediction in science.
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Patrick N. Halpin
Title(s): Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Geospatial Ecology
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 919-613-8062
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: phalpin@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: geospatial technologies, conservation biology, ecology, global change ecology
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Ron C. Hardman
Title(s): Associate Research Scientist
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8099
E-mail: ron.hardman@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: business and the environment, environmental health, marine science, water quality, environmental policy, estuarine ecosystems, coastal zone management, global climate change, environmental chemistry
Statement of Expertise: My interests are the integrated relationships between business, environment and human health, with emphasis on the effects of environmental contaminants on human health and ecosystems, and the economic and political factors that determine contaminant exposure.
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Gary S. Hartshorn
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of the Practice of Tropical Ecology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 503-488-2110
Fax: 503-228-4608
E-mail: ghartshorn@worldforestry.org
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, conservation biology, forest management and silviculture, terrestrial ecosystems
Statement of Expertise: Tropical forest ecology, management, and conservation. Considerable experience in Neotropics.
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Robert G. Healy
Title(s): Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy Studies
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-416-4543
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: healy@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: land use and sprawl
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: Land use policy, development policy, protected areas, tourism. Mexico and Canada
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Duncan Heron
Title(s): Professor Emeritus of Geology
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-5321
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: duncan.heron@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: sediment transport/strata formation
Secondary Areas of Expertise: shorelines and coastal geology
Statement of Expertise: The study of clastic sedimentary sequences especially in the Atlantic Coastal Plain. His most recent work has been on the barrier islands of the Cape Lookout cuspate foreland of North Carolina. He has a total of 46 publications and 32 additional abstracts
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David E. Hinton
Title(s): Nicholas Professor of Environmental Quality
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8038
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: dhinton@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: coastal zone management, environmental health, fisheries policy and management, water quality, wetland ecology
Statement of Expertise: Mechanistic and integrative understanding of the manner in which environmental contaminants exert their effects. Pathobiology and toxicopathology of persistent environmental contaminants in fishes: deciphering deleterious effect and establishing causal li
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William D. Hunnings
Title(s): Manager, Tech & Info SVC
Phone: 252-504-7600
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: bhunning@duke.edu
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K. David Hyrenbach
Title(s): Research Scientist in Coastal Systems Science and Policy
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: (808) 236-3555
Fax: (808) 236-3590
E-mail: khyrenba@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: conservation biology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: oceanography
Statement of Expertise: The habitats of far-ranging marine vertebrates, and the conservation of pelagic systems
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Gary Harald Isaksen
Title(s): Adjunct Professor
Primary Division: Earth and Ocean Sciences
Phone: 281 654 7562
Fax: 262 313 4119
E-mail: ghi@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: geochemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry, earth surface processes, energy, geology, risk analysis
Statement of Expertise: science and technology around fossil fuel exploration, production and processing; petroleum quality and value assessment; leadership and management practices, and philanthropy.
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Robert B. Jackson
Title(s): Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change and Professor of Biology
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-660-7408
Fax: 919-681-7176
E-mail: jackson@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: terrestrial ecosystems
Secondary Areas of Expertise: atmospheric science, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry, global climate change, land use and sprawl, soil science, air quality
Statement of Expertise: ecosystem functioning and feedbacks between global change and the biosphere.
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Sonke Johnsen
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Biology
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 919-660-7321
Fax: 919-660-7293
E-mail: sjohnsen@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: fisheries and fish ecology, marine science
Statement of Expertise: aspects of visual ecology
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David W. Johnston
Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Professor
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 808-983-5398
Fax: 808-983-2902
E-mail: dave.johnston@noaa.gov
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, ecology, endangered/threatened species, global climate change, oceanography, tropical ecology
Statement of Expertise: marine conservation and ecology, with focus on oceanography, climate change, marine protected areas and population assessments.
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Prasad Kasibhatla
Title(s): Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry,
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8075
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: psk9@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental chemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry, global climate change
Statement of Expertise: Atmospheric chemistry. Regional and Global Modeling. Atmospheric chemical data analysis.
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Gabriel Katul
Title(s): Professor of Hydrology and Micrometeorology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8033
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: gaby@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: hydrology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: atmospheric science
Statement of Expertise: Micrometeorology and surface hydrology. Carbon and water cycling. Environmental fluid dynamics.
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Richard F Kay
Title(s): Professor of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy and of Geology
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919 684 2143
Fax: +1 919 684 8542
E-mail: richard.kay@duke.edu
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William W. Kirby-Smith
Title(s): Professor of the Practice of Marine Ecology
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7577
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: wwks@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, ecology, fisheries and fish ecology, wetland ecology
Statement of Expertise: Water quality impacts of fresh water runoff into estuarine headwaters, invertebrate zoology, nekton and benthic community structure, wetland ecology, and marine ecology.
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Emily M. Klein
Title(s): Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Geology, Senior Associate Dean
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-5965
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: ek4@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: petrology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: solid earth processes
Statement of Expertise: petrology and geochemistry of oceanic crust. Volcanology and volcanic eruptions.
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Kenneth R. Knoerr
Title(s): Professor Emeritus of Environmental Meteorology and Hydrology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8030
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: dknoer@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: atmospheric science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: earth surface processes, energy, forest fires and fire ecology, forest management and silviculture, global climate change, air quality
Statement of Expertise: Mountain meteorology, microclimatology, forest fire behavior, watershed hydrology.
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Randall A. Kramer
Title(s): Professor of Resource and Environmental Economics
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8072
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: kramer@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental economics
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, environmental policy, water quality, environmental health
Statement of Expertise: the role of economics in environmental policy and management, focusing on improving our understanding of how human and business behavior is shaped by policies intended to protect the environment.
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Seth Kullman
Title(s): Assistant Research Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8005
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: swkull@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental genomics
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental toxicology, environmental chemistry
Statement of Expertise: environmental toxicology, aquatic toxicology, fish molecular biology, phase one metabolism
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Richard K. Kwok
Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
E-mail: kwok@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental health
Secondary Areas of Expertise: air quality, environmental genomics, geospatial technologies, statistics, water quality
Statement of Expertise: children's environmental health and epidemiology, with a special focus on evaluating the strength of the epidemiologic evidence linking various environmental exposures to human disease.
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Ann LeFurgey
Title(s): Associate Research Professor of Cell Biology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
E-mail: a.lefurgey@cellbio.duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Environmental toxicology, aquatic toxicology, fish molecular biology, phase one metabolism
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Michael Lenox
Title(s): Associate Professor of Management
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919 660 7700
E-mail: mlenox@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Technology Strategy and Innovation, Industry and Firm Self-Regulation, Economics of Organization
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Edward D Levin
Title(s): Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Duke University Medical Center
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-681-6273
Fax: 919-681-3416
E-mail: edlevin@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: marine biomedicine
Statement of Expertise: Neurobehavioral Toxicology, pesticides, marine toxins, lead, mercury, zebrafish, mammalian toxicology
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Elwood Linney
Title(s): Professor of Microbiology and of Environment
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-684-6095
Fax: 91-684-8735
E-mail: linne001@mc.duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Statement of Expertise: Neurobehavioral Toxicology, pesticides, marine toxins, lead, mercury, zebrafish, mammalian toxicology
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Daniel A. Livingstone
Title(s): James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biology and Research Professor of Geology
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-3264
Fax: 919-660-7293
E-mail: livingst@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: biogeochemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: earth surface processes, ecology, fisheries and fish ecology, global change ecology, water quality, wetland ecology
Statement of Expertise: Neurobehavioral Toxicology, pesticides, marine toxins, lead, mercury, zebrafish, mammalian toxicology
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Elizabeth C. Losos
Title(s): Adjunct Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919 684 5774
E-mail: elizabeth.losos@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: tropical ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: tropical and forest ecology.
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M. Susan Lozier
Title(s): Professor of Physical Oceanography
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-681-8199
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: mslozier@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: oceanography
Secondary Areas of Expertise: global climate change
Statement of Expertise: large-scale ocean circulation, water mass distribution and variability, Lagrangian pathways of ocean flow and physical constraints on ocean biology.
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Lynn A. Maguire
Title(s): Professor of the Practice of Environmental Decision Analysis and Director of Professional Studies
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8034
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: lmaguire@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: decision analysis
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: collaborative decision processes, facilitation of environmental disputes, and decision analysis for environmental problems that are hard because of uncertainty, multiple objectives and disputing parties.
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Peter E Malin
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: (64) 9 373-7599
E-mail: p.malin@auckland.ac.nz
Primary Area of Expertise: geophysics/seismology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: solid earth processes, structural geology/tectonics
Statement of Expertise: Seismic propagation in planetary crusts. Borehole investigation of seismic sources and signals. Environmental Geology.
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David McClay
Title(s): Professor of Biology
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 919-613-8188
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: dmcclay@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine biomedicine
Statement of Expertise: the events of morphogenesis that mold the embryo at gastrulation.
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Margaret A McKean
Title(s): Associate Professor of Political Science and Environment
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919 660 4340
E-mail: mamckean@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: Japanese politics and environmental and resource politics
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Miguel A Medina
Title(s): Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-660-5195
E-mail: miguel.medina@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: hydrology
Statement of Expertise: hydrologic and water quality mathematical modeling
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Joel N. Meyer
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8109
E-mail: joel.meyer@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental genomics, environmental health, water quality
Statement of Expertise: understanding environmental and genetic influences on organism health, with a focus on DNA integrity (how DNA damage is caused, and repaired), oxidative stress, and processes of adaptation to pollution.
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Ellen M. Mihaich
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Environmental Science
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-479-6947
Fax: 919-479-6947
E-mail: emihaich@nc.rr.com
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: endangered/threatened species, risk analysis, water quality
Statement of Expertise: Environmental toxicology and risk assessment. Endocrine issues. Owner/President Environmental and Regulatory Resources, LLC.
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Marie Lynn Miranda
Title(s): Associate Research Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8023
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: mmiranda@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental health
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental toxicology, environmental economics, environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: Children's environmental health; environmental justice, spatial modeling and GIS (Geographic Information Systems). Director, Children's Environmental Health Initiative.
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Bruce F. Molnia
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 703-648-4120
Fax: 703-648-6953
E-mail: bmolnia@usgs.gov
Primary Area of Expertise: earth surface processes
Secondary Areas of Expertise: coastal zone management, environmental policy, geomorphology, global climate change, marine science, shorelines and coastal geology
Statement of Expertise: Glaciers, glacial geology, and climate change. Marine and coastal geology. Use of remote sensing and historic photography to document Earth surface processes. Public policy
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A. Brad Murray
Title(s): Associate Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-681-5069
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: abmurray@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: earth surface processes
Secondary Areas of Expertise: geomorphology, shorelines and coastal geology
Statement of Expertise: coastal, river, and landscape processes and pattern formation using relatively simple computer models to test hypotheses arising from field observations.
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Brian Charles Murray
Title(s): Research Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8725
Fax: 919-613-8712
E-mail: bcmurray@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental economics
Secondary Areas of Expertise: business and the environment, energy, forest management and silviculture, landscape dynamics, terrestrial ecosystems, water quality
Statement of Expertise: economics, climate change, ecosystem services, land use, forests, agriculture
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Norman Myers
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Environmental Science
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
E-mail: myers1n@aol.com
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental economics
Secondary Areas of Expertise: ecology, conservation biology, energy, population growth, environmental policy, environmental sociology and anthropology
Statement of Expertise: Science and economics of Environment and Development.
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Richard G Newell
Title(s): Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919 681 8865
Fax: 919 684 5833
E-mail: richard.newell@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental economics
Secondary Areas of Expertise: energy, global climate change, environmental policy, fisheries policy and management
Statement of Expertise: economics of climate change policy, energy policy, energy technologies and energy efficiency, and market-based environmental policy.
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Eva Oberdörster
Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 214-768-1241
Fax: 214-768-3955
E-mail: eoberdor@mail.smu.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental toxicology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental health, marine science
Statement of Expertise: Endocrinology; marine invertebrates; environmental toxicology; nanoparticles.
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Michael K. Orbach
Title(s): Professor of the Practice of Marine Affairs and Policy
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7606
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: mko@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: coastal zone management
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental sociology and anthropology, fisheries policy and management
Statement of Expertise: Applications of social science to environmental policy and management. Marine fisheries and integrated coastal management. Public involvement and participatory action in environmental policy. Active waterman (fishing, surfing, sailing) with interests, and involvement, in grassroots conservation movements.
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Ram Oren
Title(s): Professor of Ecology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8032
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: ramoren@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: global change ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry, ecology, forest management and silviculture, terrestrial ecosystems, wetland ecology
Statement of Expertise: Forest hydrology. Forest carbon balance. Interested in how forests might respond to climate change, and how they might affect climate change.
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Charles Barry Osmond
Title(s): Research Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-493-0547
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: barry.osmond@anu.edu.au
Primary Area of Expertise: terrestrial ecosystems
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry
Statement of Expertise: Ecophysiological aspects of photosynthesis, especially metabolism of succulent plants and mechanisms of light stress. He uses non invasive methods at the leaf to canopy level that can be adapted for remote sensing of photoprotection and of photoinactivation that leads to photodamage.
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Sari Palmroth
Title(s): Assistant Research Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919 613 8089
Fax: 919 684 8741
E-mail: sari.palmroth@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: global change ecology
Statement of Expertise: carbon balance of forests; effects of resource availability on carbon uptake and allocation of individual shoots, trees and ecosystems.
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Dalia Patino Echeverri
Title(s): Gendell Assistant Professor of Energy Systems and Public Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-7461
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: dp52@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: energy
Secondary Areas of Expertise: business and the environment, decision analysis, environmental policy, risk analysis, statistics
Statement of Expertise: policy analysis for energy systems; decision making under uncertainty; risk management; and systems modeling.
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Jeffrey Peirce
Title(s): Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
E-mail: peirce.jeffrey@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Forest hydrology. Forest carbon balance. Interested in how forests might respond to climate change, and how they might affect climate change.
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Ronald D. Perkins
Title(s): Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-3376
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: rperkins@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: sediment transport/strata formation
Statement of Expertise: Recent and ancient carbonate sediments and their industrial applications. Hydrocarbon exploration and consulting
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Orrin H. Pilkey
Title(s): James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-4238
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: opilkey@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: shorelines and coastal geology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: coastal zone management
Statement of Expertise: Basic and applied coastal geology, focusing primarily on barrier island coasts. Director, Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
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Stuart L. Pimm
Title(s): Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8141
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: stuartpimm@aol.com
Primary Area of Expertise: biodiversity
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology
Statement of Expertise: Species extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. The loss of tropical forests and its consequences to biodiversity.
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Amilcare Porporato
Title(s): Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: +1 919 660 5511
Fax: +1 919 660 5219
E-mail: amilcare.porporato@duke.edu
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Lincoln F. Pratson
Title(s): Associate Professor of Sedimentary Geology
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-681-8077
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: lincoln.pratson@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: sediment transport/strata formation
Secondary Areas of Expertise: earth surface processes, geomorphology, geophysics/seismology, oceanography, shorelines and coastal geology, solid earth processes
Statement of Expertise: Sediment failure, erosion, transport and deposition. Strata formation. Continental margin evolution including landscape and seascape evolution.
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Timothy Profeta
Title(s): Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Senior Associate Dean
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8709
Fax: 919-681-2198
E-mail: tim.profeta@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental law
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: Environmental law, policy and politics.
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Song S. Qian
Title(s): Associate Research Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8105
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: song@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Water quality modeling and environmental and ecological statistics.
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Joseph S. Ramus
Title(s): Research Professor of Biological Oceanography
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7617
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: jramus@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry, oceanography
Statement of Expertise: Algal ecological physiology, especially photosynthesis, Estuarine and coastal ocean productivity, Wastewater management, Marine ecology.
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Andrew J. Read
Title(s): Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology, Director of Graduate Studies CSSP Division
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7590
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: aread@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: conservation biology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: ecology, fisheries and fish ecology, fisheries policy and management
Statement of Expertise: Marine mammals (particularly dolphins and porpoises), marine conservation biology, fisheries bycatch, whales and whaling. Particular expertise on effects of fisheries on marine ecosystems.
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Kenneth H. Reckhow
Title(s): Professor of Water Resources
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8026
Fax: 919-681-5740
E-mail: reckhow@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: water quality
Secondary Areas of Expertise: decision analysis, statistics, wetland ecology
Statement of Expertise: Water quality assessment and management. Water quality modeling. Risk Assessment. Decision analysis.
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Chantal D. Reid
Title(s): Lecturer
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-660-7378
Fax: 919-660-7293
E-mail: chantal@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: global change ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, global climate change, terrestrial ecosystems
Statement of Expertise: Physiological ecology of native and crop species, invasive species
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James F. Reynolds
Title(s): Professor of Environmental Science & Biology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-660-7404
Fax: 919-660-7425
E-mail: jfreynol@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: desertification
Secondary Areas of Expertise: global change ecology
Statement of Expertise: Land degradation; dynamics of coupled natural (biophysical) and human (socioeconomic) systems; effects rainfall variability and elevated CO2 on dryland ecosystems
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Curtis J. Richardson
Title(s): Professor of Resource Ecology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8006
Fax: 919-613-8101
E-mail: curtr@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: wetland ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry, ecology, environmental chemistry, soil science, water quality
Statement of Expertise: Wetland ecology, phosphorus biogeochemistry, restoration of wetland functions and structure on the landscape. Director, Duke University Wetland Center.
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Daniel D. Richter
Title(s): Professor of Soils and Forest Ecology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8031
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: drichter@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: soil science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry, earth surface processes, ecology, environmental chemistry, forest fires and fire ecology, forest management and silviculture, geomorphology, terrestrial ecosystems, wetland ecology
Statement of Expertise: Science and management of soils, forests, and watersheds. Can discuss acid atmospheric pollutant effects on soils, forests, and water; also forest resources and management. Have specific interests in the sustainability of southern USA forests, soils, and natural waters. Have international experience with reforestation degraded pastureland and reclamation of mine lands in the humid tropics. Co-director, Southern Center for Sustainable Forestry.
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Dan Rittschof
Title(s): Professor of Zoology
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252-504-7634
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: ritt@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, environmental toxicology, fisheries and fish ecology
Statement of Expertise: Antifouling technology, chemical and behavioral ecology
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Raphael D. Sagarin
Title(s): Assistant Research Professor
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 919-613-8738
E-mail: rds25@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: coastal zone management, conservation biology, environmental law, environmental policy, fisheries policy and management, global change ecology, marine science, wetland ecology
Statement of Expertise: Intertidal marine ecology. Distribution and abundance of organisms. Evolutionary models for security studies. Marine environmental policy. Historical analysis of ecological change.
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Jim E. Salzman
Title(s): Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law and
Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-7185
Fax: 919-613-7231
E-mail: salzman@law.duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: biodiversity
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental economics, fisheries policy and management, global climate change, population growth
Statement of Expertise: US and International environmental law. Natural resources law and policy. Strong interest in legal and institutional issues surrounding provision of ecosystem services.
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Erika N. Sasser
Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8083
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: erika.sasser@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental policy
Secondary Areas of Expertise: forest management and silviculture
Statement of Expertise: Forest policy and forest certification. Business and the environment, with focus on private, voluntary regulation. Agricultural policy (including evolving interest in genetic modification. Land use policy and property rights. North American comparative e
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Kathryn A. Saterson
Title(s): Adjunct Associate Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
E-mail: saterson@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: biodiversity
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, environmental policy, environmental sociology and anthropology, global change ecology, land use and sprawl
Statement of Expertise: Local, national and international policies and approaches to conservation of biological diverstiy. The role of non-governmental organizations and development assistance agencies in conservation.
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Sally Schauman
Title(s): Adjunct Professor, Nicholas School,
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-956-2733
E-mail: sebring7@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental sociology and anthropology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental policy, geomorphology, land use and sprawl, water quality
Statement of Expertise: environmental sociology and anthropology.
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William H. Schlesinger
Title(s): James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biogeochemistry
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 845-677-5343
E-mail: schlesin@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: biogeochemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, desertification, earth surface processes, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, global change ecology, global climate change, soil science, terrestrial ecosystems, wetland ecology, geomorphology, population growth
Statement of Expertise: Global environmental change, focusing on chemical changes in the environment, especially soils, that relate to changes in global climate and desertification.
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Thomas F. Schultz
Title(s): Director, Marine Conservation Molecular Facility
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 252-504-7641
E-mail: tom.schultz@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: conservation biology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, environmental genomics, fisheries policy and management, marine science
Statement of Expertise: molecular biology. The application of molecular techniques for marine conservation and biodiversity.
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Eylon Shalev
Title(s): Research Scientist in Earth and Ocean Sciences
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-4780
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: shalev@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: geophysics/seismology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: solid earth processes
Statement of Expertise: seismic tomography and borehole instrumentation.
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Martin D. Smith
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8028
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: marsmith@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental economics
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental policy, fisheries and fish ecology, fisheries policy and management, risk analysis, statistics
Statement of Expertise: environmental and resource economics, fisheries economics and management, marine pollution, marine conservation, beach management
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Heather Stapleton
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8717
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: heather.stapleton@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental chemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental toxicology, estuarine ecosystems, fisheries and fish ecology, marine science
Statement of Expertise: Fate and biotransformation of organic contaminants in aquatic systems. Focus on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).
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Jennifer Jane Swenson
Title(s): Assistant Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919 668 0606
E-mail: jennifer.swenson@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, forest management and silviculture, geospatial technologies, land use and sprawl, terrestrial ecosystems, tropical ecology
Statement of Expertise: spatial mapping and modeling of ecological phenomena and landscape ecology.
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John W Terborgh
Title(s): Research Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-490-9081
Fax: 919-493-3695
E-mail: manu@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, conservation biology
Statement of Expertise: tropical ecology and conservation issues, and avian and mammalian ecology in neotropical forests.
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Wayne Thomann
Title(s): Assistant Research Professor
Primary Division: Community and Family Medicine
Phone: 919 684-6320
E-mail: thoma010@mc.duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: air quality
Statement of Expertise: indoor air quality. He also studies hazardous waste management, environmental health and safety, and children’s environmental health.
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Christopher D. Timmins
Title(s): Associate Professor of Economics
Primary Division: Economics
Phone: 919-6601809
Fax: 919-660-7293
E-mail: timmins@econ.duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental economics
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Dean L. Urban
Title(s): Professor of Landscape Ecology
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8076
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: deanu@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: ecology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, conservation biology, endangered/threatened species, forest fires and fire ecology, forest management and silviculture, geospatial technologies, global change ecology, land use and sprawl, landscape dynamics, terrestrial ecosystems
Statement of Expertise: Landscape ecology and forest community ecology, conservation biology. Spatial and multivariate analysis, simulation modeling.
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Cindy L. Van Dover
Title(s): Professor of Marine Biology, Director, Duke University Marine Laboratory
Primary Division: MSC
Phone: 252 504 7655
E-mail: c.vandover@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: oceanography
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, biogeochemistry, conservation biology, ecology, marine science
Statement of Expertise: the ecology of chemosynthetic ecosystems.
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John J. Vandenberg
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Environmental Science
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-541-4527
Fax: 919-541-5078
E-mail: john.vandenberg@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: air quality
Secondary Areas of Expertise: atmospheric science, environmental policy, environmental toxicology, risk analysis
Statement of Expertise: Air quality research, assessment and management; human health risk assessment; interface of science and environmental policy.
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Avner Vengosh
Title(s): Associate Professor
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-681-8050
Fax: 919-684-5833
E-mail: vengosh@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: geochemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: water quality
Statement of Expertise: environmental and aqueous geochemistry, isotope hydrology, water quality, and salinization of water resources.