Wetlands

Faculty

James Heffernan

Director of Graduate Studies, University Program in Ecology | Chair, Terrestrial and Freshwater Environments

Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Ecohydrology
Wenhong Li

Associate Professor of Earth & Climate Sciences

Associate Professor of Climate
Curtis Richardson

Research Professor of Resource Ecology

Research Professor of Resource Ecology in the Division of Environmental Science and Policy
Brian Silliman

Director, Duke Wetland and Coasts Center

Rachel Carson Distinguished Professor of Marine Conservation Biology

Rachel Carson Professor of Marine Conservation Biology

Reclaiming Duke’s SWAMP

Sixteen years after the restoration of Upper Sandy Creek began, hundreds of species, some rare, now call the once-heavily eroded and degraded stream home, and nitrogen pollution flowing off Duke’s campus into downstream waters has been slashed by 75%.

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