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John D Albertson
Title(s): Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 660-5468, (919) 660-5200
Fax: (919) 660-5219
E-mail: john.albertson@duke.edu
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
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
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
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: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7578
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: rbarber@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Regulation of ocean productivity by physical processes such as climate.
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Xavier Basurto
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7540
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: xavier.basurto@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental policy
Secondary Areas of Expertise: conservation biology, fisheries policy and management, marine science
Statement of Expertise: the governance and theory of common-pool resources, community-based management, and institutional analysis of social-ecological systems, especially in the context of coastal marine environments and protected areas in rural Latin America
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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
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
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
Statement of Expertise: Non-destructive characterization of geomaterials.
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Celia J Bonaventura
Title(s): Professor of Cell Biology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: 252-504-7591
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: bona@duke.edu
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: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: 252-504-7613
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: joeb@duke.edu
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
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
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 Associate Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy, Director of Graduate Studies MSC Division
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7628
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: lcampbe@duke.edu
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
Statement of Expertise: aquatic organisms, conservation and population genetics, kin selection and behavior, fish and shellfish fisheries.
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Nicolas Cassar
Title(s): Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
E-mail: nicolas.cassar@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: biogeochemistry
Secondary Areas of Expertise: oceanography
Statement of Expertise: biogeochemistry and isotope biogeochemistry, marine productivity and carbon cycling, and algal ecophysiology.
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William Lloyd Chameides
Title(s): Dean, and Nicholas Professor of the Environment
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: (919) 613-8004
Fax: 919-613-8061
E-mail: bill.chameides@duke.edu
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
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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Charlotte Reeves Clark
Title(s): Visiting Professor,
Phone: (919) 684-3159
Fax: (919) 684-5833
E-mail: charlotte.clark@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental sociology and anthropology
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental policy
Statement of Expertise: environmental education, collective action, qualitative research methods
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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
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
Statement of Expertise: Development of paleoclimatic proxies; Deep-sea benthic foraminifera; Micropaleontology; Cenozoic paleoceanography.
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Larry B. Crowder
Title(s): Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7637
Fax: (252) 504-7638
E-mail: lcrowder@duke.edu
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
Statement of Expertise: Environmental toxicology, environmental health, and freshwater and estuarine pollution.
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Humberto J. Diaz
Title(s): Adjunct Professor
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
E-mail: humberto.diaz@duke.edu
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Gary S 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
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: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: 314-954-8571
E-mail: keckert@widecast.org
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: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (314) 566-6301
E-mail: seckert@widecast.org
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
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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John P. Fay
Title(s): Instructor, Geospatial Analysis Program
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-8718
E-mail: john.fay@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: geospatial technologies
Secondary Areas of Expertise: biodiversity, conservation biology, global change ecology, landscape dynamics
Statement of Expertise: spatial analysis of species ranges under changing environmental conditions; habitat connectivity analysis; geospatial tool development for use in mapping, inventorying, and managing ecosystem services.
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Lee Ferguson
Title(s): Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 660-5460
Fax: (919) 660-5219
E-mail: lee.ferguson@duke.edu
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Richard B. Forward
Title(s): Professor of Zoology and Bass Fellow
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7610
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: rforward@duke.edu
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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Ari S. Friedlaender
Title(s): Assistant Research Scientist
Primary Division: Marine Science and Conservation
Phone: (919) 672-0103
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: asf7@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: marine mammals foraging ecology, tagging, and the effects of climate change. Also, professional photographer and outdoor enthusiast.
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Deborah Rigling Gallagher
Title(s): Assistant Professor of the Practice of Resource and Environmental Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-8138
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: deb.gallagher@duke.edu
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
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
Statement of Expertise: earth surface processes, including the role of humans as geomorphic agents and the emergence of technology as a geologic process
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Patrick N. Halpin
Title(s): Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Geospatial Ecology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: 919-613-8062
Fax: (919) 684-8741
E-mail: phalpin@duke.edu
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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
Statement of Expertise: Tropical forest ecology, management, and conservation. Considerable experience in Neotropics.
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Robert G. Healy
Title(s): Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-416-4543
Fax: (919) 684-8741
E-mail: healy@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Land use policy, development policy, protected areas, tourism. Mexico and Canada
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James L. Hench
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Oceanography
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (650) 759-6659
E-mail: jim.hench@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: shallow-water physical oceanography, physical-biological interactions in marine environments, and marine technology.
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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
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
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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Dana E. Hunt
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (919) 660-5575
E-mail: dana.hunt@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental genomics, environmental toxicology, water quality
Statement of Expertise: Microbial Ecology especially as related to the production of bioactive compounds. Bacterial adaptation to emerging pollutants.
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K. David Hyrenbach
Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (808) 236-3563
Fax: (808) 236-3529
E-mail: khyrenba@duke.edu
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
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,
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: (919) 660-7408
Fax: 919-681-7176
E-mail: jackson@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: how people affect the Earth
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Sonke Johnsen
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Biology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (919) 660-7321
Fax: 919-660-7293
E-mail: sjohnsen@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: aspects of visual ecology
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Timothy L. Johnson
Title(s): Adjunct Professor
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: (919) 541-0575
Fax: (919) 541-7885
E-mail: johnson.tim@epa.gov
Primary Area of Expertise: energy
Secondary Areas of Expertise: decision analysis, environmental economics, environmental policy, geospatial technologies, global climate change, land use and sprawl
Statement of Expertise: regional energy planning, sustainable energy system design, smart growth and land use change, energy modeling, and geographic data anlysis
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Zackary I Johnson
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Biological Oceanography and Marine Biotechnology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: 252-504-7543
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: zij@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: marine microbes (focusing on cyanobacteria/Prochlorococcus), biogeochemistry (carbon fluxes focusing on photosynthesis), biological oceanography, marine biotechnology.
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David W. Johnston
Title(s): Research Scientist and Resident Faculty
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7593
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: david.johnston@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: marine conservation and ecology, with focus on oceanography, climate change, marine protected areas and population assessments.
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Prasad S 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
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
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 Emeritus of Marine Ecology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7577
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: wwks@duke.edu
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): Professor of Geology, Senior Associate Dean
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-5965
Fax: (919) 684-5833
E-mail: ek4@duke.edu
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
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) 681-0361
E-mail: kramer@duke.edu
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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Richard K. Kwok
Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 316-3336
E-mail: kwok@duke.edu
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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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
Statement of Expertise: Neurobehavioral Toxicology, pesticides, marine toxins, lead, mercury, zebrafish, mammalian toxicology
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Wenhong Li
Title(s): Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: (919) 684-5015
Fax: (919) 684-5833
E-mail: wenhong.li@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: climate and climate change, atmospheric-land interaction hydrological cycle over tropical land using in-situ and remotely-sensed data, and modeling studies.
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Elwood A 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
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
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
E-mail: elizabeth.losos@duke.edu
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
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
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
Statement of Expertise: Seismic propagation in planetary crusts. Borehole investigation of seismic sources and signals. Environmental Geology.
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David R McClay
Title(s): Professor of Biology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (919) 613-8188
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: dmcclay@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: the events of morphogenesis that mold the embryo at gastrulation.
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Miguel A Medina
Title(s): Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 660-5195
Fax: (919) 660-5219
E-mail: miguel.medina@duke.edu
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
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
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 Professor of Environmental Sciences & Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-8023
Fax: (919) 684-3227
E-mail: mmiranda@duke.edu
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
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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Jeffrey E. Moore
Title(s): Research Scientist
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7621
E-mail: jeffrey.e.moore@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: population dynamics and modeling, trophic ecology, conservation of marine mammals, seabirds, and marine turtles.
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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
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
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
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
Statement of Expertise: the economics of energy and environmental markets, policies, and technologies; climate change; energy efficiency; and market-based environmental policy.
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Douglas P. Nowacek
Title(s): Repass-Rodgers University Associate Professor of Conservation Technology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: 252-504-7566
Fax: 252-504-7648
E-mail: doug.nowacek@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Marine mammals, technology development, bioacoustics, behavioral ecology, foraging ecology.
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Eva Oberdörster
Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: 214-768-1241
Fax: 214-768-3955
E-mail: eoberdor@mail.smu.edu
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: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7606
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: mko@duke.edu
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): Nicholas Professor of Earth System Science,
Chair, Environmental Science & Policy Division
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-8032
Fax: (919) 684-8741
E-mail: ramoren@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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Eric P. Palkovacs
Title(s): McCurdy Visiting Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (207) 299-2244
E-mail: eric.palkovacs@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: eco-evolutionary dynamics and evolutionary conservation biology, with a specific focus on aquatic and island ecosystems.
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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
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
Statement of Expertise: policy analysis for energy systems; decision making under uncertainty; risk management; and systems modeling.
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Subhrendu K. Pattanayak
Title(s): Associate Professor of Public Policy and Environmental Economics
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-9306
Fax: (919) 684-9940
E-mail: subhrendu.pattanayak@duke.edu
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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
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
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@me.com
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 M Porporato
Title(s): Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: (919) 660-5511
Fax: (919) 660-5219
E-mail: amilcare.porporato@duke.edu
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Lincoln F. Pratson
Title(s): Professor of Energy & Environment
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: (919) 681-8077
Fax: (919) 684-5833
E-mail: lincoln.pratson@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Sediment failure, erosion, transport and deposition. Strata formation. Continental margin evolution including landscape and seascape evolution.
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Timothy H 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
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: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7617
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: jramus@duke.edu
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
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7590
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: aread@duke.edu
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
Statement of Expertise: Water quality assessment and management. Water quality modeling. Risk Assessment. Decision analysis.
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Chantal D. Reid
Title(s): Assistant Professor of the Practice
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 660-7378
Fax: 919-660-7293
E-mail: chantal@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Physiological ecology of native and crop species, invasive species
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Kathy Reinsel
Title(s): McCurdy Visiting Scholar
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7563
E-mail: kreinsel@wittenberg.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: ecology
Statement of Expertise: ecology of marine invertebrates. Foraging ecology and impacts of predators on prey communities.
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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
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
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 Jr.
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
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): Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Ecology
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7634
Fax: (252) 504-7648
E-mail: ritt@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Antifouling technology, chemical and behavioral ecology
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Stephen E. Roady
Title(s): Adjunct Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (202) 667-4500
Fax: (202) 667-2356
E-mail: steve.roady@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental law
Secondary Areas of Expertise: environmental policy, fisheries policy and management
Statement of Expertise: environmental law and policy, federal legislation and litigation related to ocean conservation, air and water quality.
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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
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
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
Fax: (919) 668-5549
E-mail: saterson@duke.edu
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
E-mail: sebring7@duke.edu
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
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: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: 252-504-7641
E-mail: tom.schultz@duke.edu
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
Statement of Expertise: seismic tomography and borehole instrumentation.
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Martin D. Smith
Title(s): Associate Professor of Environmental Economics
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-8028
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: marsmith@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: environmental and resource economics, fisheries economics and management, marine pollution, marine conservation, beach management
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Heather M. Stapleton
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-8717
Fax: (919) 684-8741
E-mail: heather.stapleton@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: the fate and transformation of organic contaminants in aquatic systems and indoor environments. Her research focuses on several types of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and brominated flame retardants, with a focus on polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).
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Jennifer J. 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
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
Statement of Expertise: tropical ecology and conservation issues, and avian and mammalian ecology in neotropical forests.
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Wayne R Thomann
Title(s): Assistant Research Professor
Primary Division: Community and Family Medicine
Phone: 919 684-6320
Fax: (919) 684-2422
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
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): Harvey Smith Professor of Biological Oceanography,
Director, Duke University Marine Laboratory
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (252) 504-7655
E-mail: c.vandover@duke.edu
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) 489-8018, (919) 541-4527
Fax: 919-541-5078
E-mail: john.vandenberg@duke.edu
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
Statement of Expertise: environmental and aqueous geochemistry, isotope hydrology, water quality, and salinization of water resources.
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Jeffrey R. Vincent
Title(s): Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 919-613-8025
E-mail: jeff.vincent@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: economics of natural resource management and policy in developing countries, with an emphasis on forests, agriculture, and water in Asia.
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Jeffrey D. Warren
Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Professor
Primary Division: Marine Science and Conservation
Phone: 919-733-2293 x. 241
E-mail: jeff.warren@ncmail.net
Statement of Expertise: the integration of science and policy related to natural resource management issues. Coastal management expertise includes beach nourishment, shoreline erosion, inlet migration and sea level rise. Can also discuss offshore energy policy.
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Erika S. Weinthal
Title(s): Associate Professor of Environmental Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-8080
Fax: 919-684-8741
E-mail: weinthal@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: environmental policy, international environmental institutions, the political-economy of the resource curse, water cooperation and conflict, and environmental security.
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Jim Welch
Title(s): McCurdy Visiting Scholar
Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation
Phone: (937) 207-8590
E-mail: jwelch@wittenberg.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: marine science
Secondary Areas of Expertise: oceanography
Statement of Expertise: larval ecology, transport and settlement site selection of invertebrate larvae, use of molecular tools to answer ecological questions.
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Jonathan B. Wiener
Title(s): Perkins Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy
Phone: (919) 613-7054
Fax: (919) 613-7231
E-mail: wiener@law.duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: environmental policy
Secondary Areas of Expertise: decision analysis, environmental economics, global climate change
Statement of Expertise: The intersection of science, economics and law in regulatory systems, both national and global, including the design of incentive-based systems such as allowance trading and the design of risk-superior regulatory solutions that overcome risk-risk tradeoffs
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Mark R. Wiesner
Title(s): James L. Meriam Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: (919) 660-5292
Fax: 919-660-5219
E-mail: wiesner@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: membrane processes, nanostructured materials, transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment, colloidal and interfacial processes, and environmental systems analysis.
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Robert L Wolpert
Title(s): Professor of Statistical Science and Professor of Environmental Sciences & Policy
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 684-3275
Fax: (919) 684-8594
E-mail: rlw@stat.duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: Statistical and mathematical modeling. Risk analysis and assessment. Decision theory and decision support. Spatial environmental statistics.
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Justin Wright
Title(s): Assistant Research Professor
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: (919) 613-8096
Fax: (919) 660-7293
E-mail: jw67@duke.edu
Statement of Expertise: community ecology and the links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
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