Scope | Faculty & Staff Notes

In Print | Recent Publications by Nicholas School Faculty & Staff

Lori Snyder Bennear, assistant professor of environmental economics and policy
• “Measuring Progress: Program Evaluation of Environmental Policies,” Environment, 2005 (lead author)

Lisa M. Campbell, Rachel Carson Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy
• “Overcoming Obstacles to Interdisciplinary Research,” Conservation Biology, 2005

James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology
• “Fire Cycles in North American Interior Grasslands and Their Relation to Prairie Drought,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2005 (coauthor)
• “Hierarchical Bayes for Structured, Variable Populations: from Recapture Data to Life-History Prediction,” Ecology, 2005 (lead author)
• “Implications of Seed Banking for Recruitment of Southern Appalachian Woody Species,” Ecology, 2005 (coauthor w/ M. Lavine et al)

Michael S. Coyne, research scientist
• “Population Characteristics of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles in Nearshore Waters of the Upper Texas and Louisiana Coasts,” Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2005 (coauthor)
• “Predicted Sex Ratio of Juvenile Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles Captured Near Steinhatchee, Florida,” Copeia, 2005 (coauthor)

Kevin T. Craig, assistant research scientist
• “Declining Threshold for Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico,” Environmental Science & Technology, 2005 (coauthor w/ C.A. Stow and S.S. Qian)

Thomas Crowley, Nicholas Professor of Earth Systems Science
• “Raising the Ante on the Climate Debate,” EOS Forum, July 12, 2005

Richard T. Di Giulio, professor of environmental toxicology, and director, Duke Superfund Basic Research Center
• “Assessment of the Phototoxicity of Weathered Alaska North Slope Crude Oil to Juvenile Pink Salmon,” Chemosphere, 2005 (coauthor w/ M. Rau PhD’05 et al.)
• “Differential Display of Hepatic mRNA from Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) Inhabiting a Superfund Estuary,” Aquatic Toxicology, 2005 (coauthor w/ J.N. Meyer PhD’03, D.C. Volz, and J.H. Freedman)
• “A Non-Destructive Technique to Measure Cytochrome P4501A Enzyme Activity in Living Embryos of the Estuarine Fish (Fundulus heteroclitus),” Techniques in Aquatic Toxicology, 2005 (coauthor w/ D.M. Wassenberg PhD’05 et al.)

Patrick N. Halpin, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis
• “Patterns of Watershed Urbanization and Impacts on Water Quality 1,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2005 (coauthor w/ M. V. Carle and C. A. Stow)

Gabriele Hegerl, associate research professor • “Warming the World’s Oceans,” Science, July 8, 2005 (coauthor)

David E. Hinton, Nicholas Professor of Environmental Quality
• “2,3,7,8- Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD) Induces Organ-Specific Differential Gene Expression in Male Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes),” Toxicological Sciences, February 2005 (coauthor w/ D. Volz, D. Bencic, S. Kullman et al.) • “Metabolic Change in Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes) During Embryogenesis and Hypoxia as Determined by in Vivo31P NMR,” Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology, February 2005 (coauthor)

K. David Hyrenbach, research scientist
• “Do the Largest Reserves Protect Whales or Whalers? Science, Jan. 28, 2005 (coauthor).

Robert B. Jackson, professor of environmental sciences and biology
• “Ecohydrological Implications of Woody Plant Encroachment,” Ecology, 2005 (coauthor)

Gabriel G. Katul, professor of hydrology and micrometeorology
• “Mechanistic Analytical Models for Long- Distance Seed Dispersal by Wind,” The American Naturalist, 2005 (lead author w/ M. Siqueira PhD’02 et al.)
• “Assessing the Effects of Atmospheric Stability on the Fine Structure of Surface Layer Turbulence Using Local and Global Multiscale Approaches,” Physics of Fluids, 2005 (coauthor w/ J.D. Albertson)
• “Foliage Shedding in Deciduous Forests Lifts up Long-Distance Seed Dispersal by Wind,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005 (coauthor)
• “Variability in Net Ecosystem Exchange from Hourly to Inter-Annual Time Scales at Adjacent Pine and Hardwood Forests: a Wavelet Analysis,” Tree Physiology, 2005, (coauthor w/ P.C. Stoy, M.B. Siqueira PhD’02, J. Juang, H.R. McCarthy, H. Kim, A. C. Oishi, and R. Oren)
• “Resampling Hierarchical Processes in the Wavelet Domain: A Case Study Using Atmospheric Turbulence,” Physica D, 2005 (coauthor)
• “Photosynthetic Responses of a Humid Grassland Ecosystem to Future Climate Perturbations,” Advances in Water Resources, 2005 (coauthor)

Emily M. Klein, Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Geology
• “Counter-Rotating Microplates at the Galapagos Triple Junction,” Nature, February 2005 (lead author)

Randall A. Kramer, professor of resource and environmental economics
• “Do Migrants Degrade Coastal Environments? Migration, Natural Resource Extraction, and Poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.” Human Ecology, 2005 (coauthor)

M. Susan Lozier, professor of physical oceanography
• “The Influence of Topography on the Stability of Shelfbreak Frontal Currents,” Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2005 (lead author)
• “The Effect of Advection on the Nutrient Reservoir in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre,” Nature, Sept. 29, 2005 (coauthor w/ Jaime Palter and R. T. Barber)

Orrin H. Pilkey, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology
• “Beach Awash with Politics,” Geotimes, July 2005

Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology
• “Sustaining the Variety of Life,” Scientific American, special issue, September 2005 (w/ C. Jenkins)

Andrew J. Read, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology,
• “North Atlantic Right Whales in Crisis,” Science, July 2005 (coauthor)
• “Effects of Fine Scale Oceanographic Features on the Distribution and Movements of Harbor Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Bay of Fundy,” Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2005 (coauthor w/ D. Johnston and A. Westgate)
• “Effects of Fishing on Long-lived Marine Organisms,” Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea’s Biodiversity (chapter), 2005 (coauthor w/ L.B. Crowder et al.)
• “Prey Detection by Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncates): An Experimental Test of the Passive Listening Hypothesis,” Animal Behavior, 2005 (coauthor)

Kenneth H. Reckhow, professor of water resources, and chair, Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy
• “Nonlinear Regression Modeling of Nutrient Loads in Streams: A Bayesian Approach,” Water Resource Research, 2005 (coauthor)

Curtis J. Richardson, professor of resource ecology
• “The Restoration Potential of the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq,” Science, February 2005 (lead author)
• “Spatial Variability of Soil Properties in Created, Restored, and Paired Natural Wetlands,” Journal of the Soil Science Society of America, 2005 (coauthor w/ G. Bruland PhD’04)

James Salzman, professor of law and Nicholas Institute professor of environmental policy
• “Science in the Public Process of Ecosystem Management: Lessons from Hawaii, Southeast Asia, Africa and the U.S. Mainland,” Journal of Environmental Management, 2005 (coauthor)

William H. Schlesinger, James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry and dean, Nicholas School
• “Soil Carbon Sequestration and Turnover in a Pine Forest After Six Years of Atmospheric CO₂ Enrichment,” Ecology, 2005 (coauthor)

Martin D. Smith, assistant professor of environmental economics
• “State Dependence and Heterogeneity in Fishing Location Choice,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2005

John Terborgh, James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science
• “The Effects of Herbivore Density on Soil Nutrients and Tree Growth in Tropical Forest Fragments,” Ecology, 2005 (coauthor w/ K. Feeley PhD’05)

Dean L. Urban, associate professor of landscape ecology
• “Modeling Ecological Processes Across Scales,” Ecology, 2005