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Richard T Barber

Title(s): Harvey W. Smith Professor Emeritus of Biological Oceanography

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Secondary Division: Earth & Ocean Sciences

Phone: (252) 504-7578

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

E-mail: xavier.basurto@duke.edu

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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Celia J Bonaventura

Title(s): Professor of Cell Biology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: 252-504-7591

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

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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Andre Boustany

Title(s): Research Scientist

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (919) 613-8021

E-mail: andre.boustany@duke.edu

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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

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): Adjunct Assistant Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

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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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Larry B. Crowder

Title(s): Adjunct Professor of Marine Biology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Secondary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy

Phone: 831.333.2077

E-mail: lcrowder@stanford.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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Humberto J. Diaz

Title(s): Adjunct Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

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E-mail: humberto.diaz@duke.edu

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Richard B. Forward

Title(s): Research Professor and Bass Fellow

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (252) 504-7610

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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Ari S. Friedlaender

Title(s): Assistant Research Scientist

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (919) 672-0103

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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Patrick N. Halpin

Title(s): Associate Professor of Marine Geospatial Ecology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Secondary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy

Phone: 919-613-8062

E-mail: phalpin@duke.edu

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Elliott L Hazen

Title(s): Research Adjunct Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (831) 658-3202

E-mail: elliott.hazen@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: studying marine predator ecology in the open ocean including marine mammals, fish, sea turtles, and seabirds. He is interested in the characteristics that influence habitat use and foraging ecology in the ocean.

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James L. Hench

Title(s): Assistant Professor of Oceanography

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation, Earth & Ocean Sciences

Phone: (650) 759-6639

E-mail: jim.hench@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: shallow-water physical oceanography, environmental fluid mechanics, physical-biological interactions in marine environments, and marine technology.

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Dana E. Hunt

Title(s): Assistant Professor - Microbial Ecology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (252) 504-7542

E-mail: dana.hunt@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: Microbial Ecology specifically the drivers of bacterial diversity and dynamics in the marine environment. 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

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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Zackary I Johnson

Title(s): Assistant Professor of Biological Oceanography and Marine Biotechnology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (252) 504-7543

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

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (252) 504-7593

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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William W. Kirby-Smith

Title(s): Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Marine Ecology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (252) 504-7577

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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David R McClay

Title(s): Professor of Biology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation (secondary)

Phone: (919) 613-8188

E-mail: dmcclay@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: the events of morphogenesis that mold the embryo at gastrulation.

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Jeffrey E. Moore

Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

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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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Douglas P. Nowacek

Title(s): Repass-Rodgers University Associate Professor of Conservation Technology,

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: 252-504-7566

E-mail: doug.nowacek@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: Marine mammals, technology development, bioacoustics, behavioral ecology, foraging ecology.

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James D. Oliver

Title(s): Adjunct Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: 252-504-7533

E-mail: jdoliver@uncc.edu

Statement of Expertise: biology of bacteria in the genus Vibrio, especially the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus

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Michael K. Orbach

Title(s): Professor of the Practice of Marine Affairs and Policy

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Secondary Division: Environmental Sciences & Policy

Phone: (252) 504-7606

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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Eric P. Palkovacs

Title(s): Adjunct Assistant Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: 919-613-8030

E-mail: epalkova@ucsc.edu

Statement of Expertise: eco-evolutionary dynamics and evolutionary conservation biology, with a specific focus on aquatic and island ecosystems.

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Linwood Pendleton

Title(s): Adjunct Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (919) 613-8709

E-mail: linwood.pendleton@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: ocean and coastal policy, environmental economics, ecosystem services, climate adaption.

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Joseph S. Ramus

Title(s): Research Professor of Biological Oceanography

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (252) 504-7617

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): Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (252) 504-7590

E-mail: aread@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: Marine conservation biology, marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, whales and whaling. Particular expertise on effects of fisheries on marine ecosystems.

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Daniel Rittschof

Title(s): Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Ecology

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: (252) 504-7634

E-mail: ritt@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: Antifouling technology, chemical and behavioral ecology

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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: Genetics, genomics, and molecular biology in marine systems

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S. Kersey Sturdivant

Title(s): McCurdy Visiting Scholar

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: 252-504-7678

E-mail: kersey.sturdivant@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: coastal hypoxia, benthic ecology, image analysis.

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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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Bryan P Wallace

Title(s): Adjunct Associate Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: 202.643.8782

E-mail: bryan.wallace@duke.edu

Statement of Expertise: marine conservation biology, vertebrate physiological ecology, endangered species issues, marine megafauna, sea turtles. Interested in communication and outreach of science to diverse audiences.

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Randall Wells

Title(s): Adjunct Professor

Primary Division: Marine Science & Conservation

Phone: 941-388-2705

E-mail: rwells@mote.org

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