Dukenvironment Archives
Spring 2009
Opportunities in a Downturned Economy:
Four Experts Talk About Positive Environmental Action That Can be Taken Now
Spanning the Globe Through Research and Education:
Atmospheric Chemist Prasad Kasibhatla Pushes International Environmental Education
Raising the Question of Safety:
Analysis Shows Exposure to Ash from TVA Spill Could Have ‘Severe Health Implications’
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Fall 2008
Unearthing Insights for a Sustainable Future In a Rural South Carolina Forest:
Dan Richter’s Team Investigates Environmental Effects of Wood Energy
Taking on the Most Vexing Issues of the Third World:
Jeffrey Vincent Brings an Economist’s Perspective to the International Impacts of Tropical Forest Logging and ‘Brown Clouds’
It’s Not Theoretical Anymore:
Students Put Themselves on the Line to Deliver Products for Real-World Clients
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Spring 2008
An Avian Metropolis:
Once-in-a-Lifetime Trip to Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Provides Lessons for Nicholas School Students About the Good and Bad Impacts of Human Activities
Grappling Daily with Hot-Button Environmental Issues:
Economist Richard Newell is Dedicated to Examining Options for Reducing Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Biogeochemistry on the Farm:
Eliza MacLean MEM’96 Puts Nutrient Cycling to Work on Her Alamance County Farm
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Fall 2007
Digging at the Intersection of Environment and Health:
Duke Researchers Cross Disciplines to Search for Reasons We Get Sick and for Ways of Preventing It
Deep in the Karst of Texas:
Deep-rooted Trees are Sucking the Landscape Dry in the Southwest, but Rob Jackson is Working to Find Solutions
An Irreconcilable Conflict:
Marine Ecologist Rafe Sagarin Bridges the Gap Between Scientific Fact and Advocacy
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Spring 2007
Mapping Out Solutions:
New Technology Gives Pat Halpin and Colleagues the Tools to do Better Science and be Better Resource Managers
In Search of Cleaner Fuel:
Peter Malin's Seismology Group Uses Earthquake Technology to Explore Sources of Geothermal Energy
Diving into Uncharted Waters:
Marine Lab Director Cindy Van Dover Literally Wrote the Book on Hydrothermal Vents
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Fall 2006
An Ongoing Story of Growth, Change and Adaptation:
Norm Christensen's Professional Path to Ecology Followed Many Twists and Turns
The Stream Doctor:
Emily Bernhardt's Pioneering Research Focuses on Successfully Restoring Urban Waterways
Bustling Hub of Research, Teaching and Recreation:
Duke Forest Marks 75 Years as One of the Nation's Largest Private Research Forests and a Unique Resource for the University and Region
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Spring 2006
Can the Environment be a Peacemaking and State-building Tool?:
Avner Vengosh and Erika Weinthal view solving the water crisis in Gaza as a potential step toward collaboration
Does Danger Lurk in Your Carpet and Cell Phone?:
New faculty member Heather Stapleton studies the risks posed by flame-retardant chemicals in the environment
Can Science Save Coastal Development:
Nicholas School faculty members play key roles in documenting threats and offering ways to avoid them
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Fall 2005
Will Plants Move Fast Enough to Keep Up With Contemporary Climate Change?:
Researchers James Clark and Gabriel Katul Look Into the Future
Working to Slow the Frightful Pace of Extinction:
Marine Lab's Karen and Scott Eckert Make it Their Personal Mission to Take Sea Turtle Conservation to the Local Level
Environmental Summit Launches Nicholas Institute:
Summit Speakers Focus on Need for Consensus, Collaboration and Action on Environmental Issues
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Spring 2005
Oceanography Among the Tumbleweeds in Utah:
Lincoln Pratson looks to the desert's Lake Powell to shed light on one of the deep sea's murkiest problems
How Much Money Is Environmental Protection Worth?:
Randall Kramer and his students calculate the tab, whether in Indonesia and North Carolina
An Entrepreneur of Social Sciences:
Marine Lab director brings anthropologist's view and a connection to the sea to the facilitation table
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Fall 2004
An Unlikely Star of Science:
Jonathan Freedman looks to microscopic roundworms to document the effects of toxic chemicals
Protecting the 'Beautiful, Savory Swimmer':
Richard Forward's blue crab research crucial to saving habitats and setting sustainable catch limits
The Iron Experiments:
Richard Barber's team goes to the end of the earth to see if dust once played a role in climate change
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Spring 2004
Investing In The Future Of The Environment:
$70 million gift from Pete and Ginny Nicholas will support new institute for environmental policy solutions
Small Fish For A Large Task:
David Hinton takes his medaka west to monitor California's drinking water
Factoring Humans Into The Environmental Picture:
instead of seeing local people as poachers or polluters, social scientist Lisa Campbell views them as part of the landscape
No Stone Unturned:
Peter Haff devotes 25 years to studying nature's desert pavement
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Fall 2003
Hitching A Ride On The Global Ocean Conveyor Belt:
Susan Lozier studies how currents deep below the ocean's surface can affect our climate
From Duke To The Everglades To Iraq:
Curt Richardson's wetland journey sheds new light on one of natures historically maligned areas
Duke's Seamapping Dream Team:
computer savvy ecologists at Duke are taking spatial analysis offshore as part of a worldwide effort to take stock of what lives in the sea
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Spring 2003
Species In Trouble:
Stuart Pimm and his students seek out the 'hottest of the hot spots' in their efforts to stem global loss of biodiversity
Loggerhead Crisis Brewing:
surprising study results show more females than males hatching in northern population
Secret Life of Waves:
Duke researchers are finding that the waves we never see may play a big role in shaping the planet
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Fall 2002
Mapping Environmental Health:
Marie Lynn Miranda uses geospatial technologies to protect our children
Cruise to the Incipient Rift:
Emily Klien 'Mows' the East Pacific to reveal secrets of magma
Boat Bottoms, Barnacles and Modern Medicine:
Dan Rittschof hopes the 'drug store' will offer a safe substance to keep barnacles off boats
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Spring 2002
Tropical Forest Clearinghouse:
ParksWatch works against the clock to save protected areas
An Historian of Global Climate Change:
introducing the newest Nicholas Chair
Entering the World of Dolphins:
research so compelling that Andy Read rarely takes a holiday
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Fall 2001
The Beaufort Experience:
year-round curriculum offers 'hands-on' education
A Tropical 'Rain Gauge':
revealing secrets in the depths of South America's largest lake
Mitigating Global Warming:
trees may not play as big a role as scientists hoped
A Proactive Dean:
William H. 'Bill' Schlesinger takes charge at the Nicholas School
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Spring 2001
Ships of Opportunity:
using NC ferries to monitor the Pamlico Sound
Young School Has Deep Roots:
Nicholas School's 10th anniversary marks coming together of forestry, the marine lab and geology
A Southern Forest Story:
soil opens window to the past and future
Finding the 'Lost City':
unexpected discovery sheds light on the earth's secrets
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Fall 2000
Fault Lines:
seeking seismic insights along the restless San Andreas
Survival Of The Sea Turtle:
sea turtles are awe-inspiring, endangered and carefully studied here at Duke's Marine Laboratory
Testing the Toxins:
impact on biological development examined
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