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Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology, Larry B. Crowder,
and doctoral student Janna M. Shackeroff were
given a 2004 Mia J. Tegner Award for their research project
“Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Oral Histories, and Historical
Information: Reef Fisheries in Milolii, Hawaii.” The Tegner
award is a highly competitive research grant administered
through the Marine Conservation and Biology Institute to provide
funding for high-quality, results-oriented research projects
in the areas of marine environmental history and historical
ecology. It is dedicated to the memory and scientific legacy
of Mia J. Tegner, a marine biologist from Scripps Institution
of Oceanography who lost her life in January 20011 while conducting
research in the waters of Southern California.
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L. Christensen Jr., professor of ecology and founding
dean of the Nicholas School, received an honorary degree from
the College of Wooster during its May commencement ceremonies.
After citing Christensen’s distinguished achievements and
contributions to the ecological sciences, Wooster President,
R. Stanton Hales presented him with the Doctor of Science
degree. Wooster College, located in Wooster, Ohio, is one
of many institutions to participate in the Cooperative College
Program, commonly referred to as the 3/2 program. The program
allows qualifying undergraduates to complete master’s or MEM
degrees at Duke after completing three years at one of the
institutions in the cooperative.
In August, commencing with the White House announcement
of seven new appointees, Christensen stepped down from his
seat on the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. His
eight-year service to the board began with his January 11997
appointment by President Bill Clinton. The NWTRB is an independent
agency of the U.S. Government, created in 11987 to provide
scientific and technical oversight of the management and disposal
of the nation’s commercial high-level radioactive waste and
spent nuclear fuel from civilian nuclear power plants, including
the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada.
Gabriele Hegerl, associate research professor
in the division of Earth and Ocean Sciences has been selected
as convening lead author of the chapter on Understanding and
Attributing Climate Change for the next Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change report on The Science of Global Warming,
due out in 2007.The report, issued approximately every five
years by the World Meteorological Organization is an important
resource for policymakers worldwide. Hegerl and co-lead author,
Francis Zwiers of the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling
and Analysis, began writing in September.
Gabriel G. Katul, professor of hydrology
and environmental fluid mechanics is a coauthor of a paper
published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
that has been awarded the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International
Award by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). WMO
is a specialized agency within the United Nations that honors
annually one scientific original paper on the influence of
meteorology in a particular field of the physical, natural
or human sciences, or on the influence of one of these sciences
on meteorology. To download a copy of the 2002 paper “Environmental
Controls Over Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapour Exchange of
Terrestrial Vegetation,” go to Katul’s
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Michael K. Orbach, professor
of the practice of marine affairs and policy and director,
Duke University Marine Laboratory, has been re-elected as
chairman of the Board of Directors of the Surfrider Foundation,
an international environmental advocacy organization devoted
to the protection of beaches, waves, and coastal water quality
around the world. In this capacity, he recently chaired a
meeting of Surfrider international affiliates from Australia,
Brazil, Europe, Japan and the United States in Biarritz, France.
Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of
Ecology was awarded the 2003 Zoological Society of London’s
Marsh Award for Conservation Biology. The award recognizes
contributions of fundamental science and its application to
the conservation of animal species and habitat and is sponsored
by the Marsh Christian Trust. Pimm was presented the award
at a ceremony in London, England, in June.
Kathryn Saterson, research scientist and
executive director for the Center for Environmental Solutions,
served on the EPA Science Advisory Board Panel reviewing the
Environmental Protection Agency’s Draft Report on the Environment.
In April, Dean William H. Schlesinger was
inducted into the National Academy of Sciences at its annual
meeting in Washington, D.C.
Martin D. Smith, assistant professor of
environmental economics, was awarded the American Agricultural
Economics Association (AAEA) award for Quality of Research
Discovery in 2003 for his journal article, “Economic Impacts
of Marine Reserves: The Importance of Spatial Behavior,” with
James Wilen, during a ceremony held in August 2004, in Denver,
Colo. The article, published in Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, was chosen over 14 others nominated
for their unique and/or important new finding that informs
an area of work upon which other economists can build.
Claire Williams, visiting professor, is
newly elected to serve a three-year term on the Forestry Research
Advisory Council. The council advises the U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture on direction of forest research in universities
and governments.
Jonathan B. Wiener, professor of law and
professor of environmental policy, has received the William
R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professorship in Law. Wiener was
awarded the chair at the annual Distinguished Professorships
dinner in April.
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