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Faculty in Earth & Ocean Sciences Division

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
Secondary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
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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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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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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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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James S. Clark
Title(s): H.L. Blomquist Professor of Environment, Professor of Biology, Professor of Statistics
Primary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Secondary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
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
Secondary Division: MSC
Phone: 919 684 2951
Fax: 919 684 5833
E-mail: bruce.corliss@duke.edu
Primary Area of Expertise: oceanography
Secondary Areas of Expertise:
Statement of Expertise: Development of paleoclimatic proxies; Deep-sea benthic foraminifera; Micropaleontology; Cenozoic paleoceanography.
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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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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
Secondary Areas of Expertise:
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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Alex Glass
Title(s): Instructor, Invertebrate Paleontology and Science Education
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: 919-684-6167
Fax:
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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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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Gary Harald Isaksen
Title(s): Adjunct Professor
Primary Division: Earth & 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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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
Primary Area of Expertise:
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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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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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M. Susan Lozier
Title(s): Professor of Physical Oceanography
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Secondary Division: MSC
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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Peter E Malin
Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Phone: (64) 9 373-7599
Fax:
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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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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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
Secondary Areas of Expertise:
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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Lincoln F. Pratson
Title(s): Associate Professor of Sedimentary Geology
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Secondary Division: MSC
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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William H. Schlesinger
Title(s): James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biogeochemistry
Primary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences
Secondary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy
Phone: 845-677-5343
Fax:
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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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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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.
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