WORKING GROUPS

Title

Initiated

Towards an empirical foundation for marine ecosystem-based management: fishing behavior, fish abundance, and climate change

2009-2010

Global change and the conservation of high latitude marine mammals

2009-2010

Water institutions and efficiency and equity in climate adaptation: searching for general behavior responses in bargaining under uncertainty

2009-2010

The drought effect on water availability and quality of North Carolina water resources: Groundwater-surface water interaction and contributions of recycled wastewater

2008-2009

Hydroclimate controls on malaria dynamics: an interdisciplinary approach

2007-2008

Life-cycle of analyses of biofuel production

2006-2007

Hurricanes: mapping the temporal evolution of land-use/land-cover along the historical tracks of land-falling hurricanes and tropical cyclones in the eastern U.S.

2006-2007

Understanding the carbon and water budget at the regional scale

2005-2006

Scaling of carbon exchange from intensively measured plots to the upper Neuse River basin

2005-2006

Climate feedbacks and carbon sequestration with afforestation scenarios in the U.S.

2004-2005

Global soil change: assessing values and uses of long-term soil-ecosystem experiments

2004-2005

Interannual variability of the Amazon and Orinoco plumes and their roles in climate/paleoclimate feedback
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2004-2005

Assessing carbon sinks and other biogeochemical changes with plantations: a global synthesis

2003-2004

Coastline change, coastal development & coastal ecosystems

2003-2004

Ocean climate modeling

Spring 2003

Scaled eco-hydraulics

Fall 2002

Ecological forecasting

Spring 2002

A working group is an interdisciplinary collaboration that includes faculty, postdoctoral associates and students. Working groups will convene at the Center to develop new science initiatives that will synthesize existing knowledge and to develop and implement novel research programs and organize proposals that will ensure continuing support.

Working groups can have lifetimes lasting between a semester and several years and are expected to reside primarily at the Center for at least one semester. Faculty will be expected to relocate to the Center, which will provide office space, clerical and computer support and meeting rooms.

Proposals to use Center facilities are selected through peer review by the executive committee. The Center will entertain a broad range of synthetic activities and approaches and will especially focus on topics that are new, timely and likely to have impact on research and graduate training at Duke University.

RFP FOR NEW WORKING GROUP PROPOSALS
The CGC is soliciting proposals from Duke faculty for activities that will establish new and innovative faculty collaborations and graduate training across disciplines in the area of global change science. Such collaborations and graduate training may be within the Duke community, or may involve faculty and research scientists from other universities and research institutions. Proposals can include working groups, workshops and symposia, support for visiting scholars, support for sabbatical faculty, or other activities.

2008 RFP for Working Group Proposals (Deadline: March 1, 2008)