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In Print | Recent publications by Nicholas School faculty or staff

Richard M. Anderson, assistant professor
"Using SSURGO Data to Improve Sacramento Model a Priori Parameter Estimates," Journal of Hydrology, 2006 (lead author)

Emily S. Bernhardt, assistant professor"Long-term Effects of Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) on Soil Respiration," Biogeochemistry, 2006 (lead author w/ J. Pippen and W. Schlesinger et al.)

Norman L. Christensen Jr., professor of ecology"Carbon Emissions from a Temperate Peat Fire and its Relevance to Interannual Variability of Trace Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases," Journal of Geophysical Research, March 2006 (coauthor w/ B. Poulter PhD '05, and P. Halpin)

James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology
Hierarchical Modeling for the Environmental Sciences: Statistical Methods and Applications, Oxford University Press, June 2006 (ed. w/ A. Gelfand)

Bruce H. Corliss, professor of earth and ocean sciences"Influence of Seasonal Primary Productivity on d13C of North Atlantic Deep-sea Benthic Foraminifera," Deep Sea Research I, March 2006 (lead author)

Michael S. Coyne, research scientist"Phenotypically Linked Dichotomy in Sea Turtle Foraging Requires Multiple Conservation Approaches," Current Biology, 2006 (coauthor)

Larry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology"Resolving Mismatches in U.S. Ocean Governance," Science, August 2006 (lead author)

Richard T. DiGiulio, professor of environmental toxicology"Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds: Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment," National Research Council, National Academies Press, July 2006"The Role of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Pathway in Mediating Synergistic Developmental Toxicity of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Zebrafish," Toxicological Sciences, 2006 (coauthor w/ A.R. Timme-Laragy, D. Wassenberg PhD '04 et al.)"Lack of p53 Induction in Fish Cells by Model Chemotherapeutics," Oncogene, 2006 (coauthor w/ M. Rau Embry PhD '04 et al.)"Developmental and Behavioral Effects of Embryonic Exposure to DE-71 in Fundulus Heteroclitus," Chemosphere, 2006 (coauthor w/ A. Timme-Laragy)"The Chlorinated AHR Ligand 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB126) Promotes Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Production During Embryonic Development in the Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)," Aquatic Toxicology, 2006 (coauthor w/ D. Wassenberg PhD '04 et al.)

Patrick N. Halpin, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Geospatial Ecology"OBIS-SEAMAP: Developing a Biogeographic Research Data Commons for the Ecological Studies of Marine Mammals, Seabirds, and Sea Turtles," Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2006 (lead author w/ A. Read, B. Best, D. Hyrenbach, M. Coyne, L. Crowder et al.)

Gabriele C. Hegerl, associate research professor"Climate Sensitivity Constrained by Temperature Reconstructions over the Past Seven Centuries," Nature, April 2006 (lead author w/ T. Crowley, W. Hyde et al.)

David E. Hinton, Nicholas Professor of Environmental Quality"Functional Characterization of Medaka CYP3A38 and CYP3A40 by Expression in a Recombinant Baculovirus System," Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 2006 (coauthor w/ S. Kullman et al.)"Dynamic Gene Expression Changes Precede Dioxin-induced Liver Pathogenesis," Toxicology Science, 2006 (coauthor w/ D. Volz PhD '06 and S. Kullman et al.)

K. David Hyrenbach, research scientist"Techniques for Cetacean-habitat Modeling," Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2006 (coauthor w/ P. Halpin, S. Qian, A. Read et al.)

Robert B. Jackson, professor of environmental sciences and biology"Progressive Nitrogen Limitation of Ecosystem Processes Under Elevated CO2 in a Warm-temperate Forest," Ecology, 2006 (coauthor w/ R. Oren, J. Pippen,W. Schlesinger et al.)"Potential Nitrogen Constraints on Soil Carbon Sequestration Under Low and Elevated Atmospheric CO2," Ecology, 2006 (coauthor)

Gabriel Katul, professor of hydrology and micrometeorology"The Influence of Hilly Terrain on Canopy-atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchange," Boundary- Layer Meteorology, Spring 2006 (lead author w/ D. Poggi et al.)"Modeling Nighttime Ecosystem Respiration from Measured CO2 Concentration and Air Temperature Profiles using Inverse Methods," Journal of Geophysical Research, Spring 2006 (coauthor w/ M. Siqueira PhD'02, S. Palmroth, R. Oren et al.)"Buoyancy and the Sensible Heat Flux Budget Within Dense Canopies," Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Spring 2006 (coauthor w/ D. Poggi et al.)"An Analysis of Intermittency, Scaling, and Surface Renewal in Atmospheric Surface Layer Turbulence," Physica D, March 2006 (lead author w/ M. Siqueira PhD'02 et al.)

Randall A. Kramer, professor of resource and environmental economics"An Empirical Bayes Approach to Combining and Comparing Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life for Environmental Policy Analysis," Environment and Resource Economics, August 2006 (coauthor)

Seth Kullman, assistant research professor"Removal and Bio-analytical Analysis of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Water with UV and UV/H2O2 Processes," Chemosphere, 2006 (coauthor w/ P. Chen PhD '05 et al.)

Peter E. Malin, professor of seismology and civil and environmental engineering"Structure of the San Andreas Fault at SAFOD from P-wave Tomography and Fault-guided Wave Mapping," Geophysical Research Letters, 2006 (lead author w/ E. Shalev, H. Balven, C. Lewis-Kenedi)

Marie Lynn Miranda, associate research professor"Approximately Optimal Spatial Design Approaches for Environmental Health Data," Environmetrics, 2006 (coauthor w/ A. Gelfand et al.)

Ram Oren, professor of ecology"Modeling Seed Dispersal Distances: Implications for Transgenic Pinus Taeda," Ecological Applications, Spring 2006 (coauthor w/ G. Katul et al.)"The Porous Media Model for the Hydraulic System of a Conifer Tree: Linking Sap Flux Data to Transpiration Rate," Ecological Modeling, Spring 2006 (coauthor w/ G. Katul et al.)

Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology"Ecological Networks and their Fragility," Nature, July 2006 (coauthor)"Human Impacts on the Rates of Recent, Present, and Future Bird Extinctions," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2006, (lead author)

Jeffrey S. Pippen, research associate"Annual Basal Area Increment and Growth Duration of Pinus Taeda in Response to Eight Years of Free-air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment," Global Change Biology, 2006 (coauthor)

Andrew J. Read, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology"By-catches of Marine Mammals in U.S. Fisheries and a First Estimate of Global Marine Mammal By-catch. Conservation Biology, 2006 (lead author)"Understanding the Impacts of Anthropogenic Sound on Beaked Whales," Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 2006 (coauthor w/ T. Cox et al.)

Kenneth H. Reckhow, professor of water resources, and chair Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy"A Bayesian Approach to Retransformation Bias in Transformed Regression," Ecology, Spring 2006 (coauthor w/ S. Qian and C. Stow)

James F. Reynolds, professor of environmental science and biology"Nutrient Availability and Atmospheric CO2 Partial Pressure Modulate the Effects of Nutrient Heterogeneity on the Size Structure of Populations in Grassland Species," Annals of Botany, May 2006 (coauthor)

Curtis J. Richardson, professor of resource ecology"Restoring the Garden of Eden: An Ecological Assessment of the Marshes of Iraq," BioSciences, June 2006 (lead author)

Daniel D. Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology"Changes in Stable Isotopic Signatures of Soil Nitrogen and Carbon During 40 Years of Forest Development," Ocealogia, January 2006 (coauthor)

James Salzman, professor of law and Nicholas Institute professor of environmental policy"The Effects of Wetland Mitigation Banking on People," National Wetlands Newsletter, March 2006 (coauthor)
Concepts and Insights in Environmental Law, Foundation Press, 2003, 2nd ed. 2006 (co-author w/ B.Thompson Jr.)
International Environmental Law and Policy, Foundation Press, 2002, 3rd ed. 2006 (coauthor w/ D. Zaelke and D. Hunter, 1998)

William H. Schlesinger, James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry"The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change," In Advances in the Economics of Environmental Research, Vol. 5, 2006 (author)"Global Change: The Nitrogen Cycle and Rivers," Water Resources Research, February 2006 (lead author w/ K. Reckhow and E. Bernhardt)"Nitrogen Fertilization Decreases Forest Soil Fungal and Bacterial Biomass in Three Long-term Experiments," Forest Ecology and Management, 2006 (coauthor)"The Duke Forest FACE Experiment: CO2 Enrichment of a Loblolly Pine Forest," Managed Ecosystems and CO2: Case Studies, Processes and Perspectives, J.S. Nosberger, et al. (eds.), Springer- Verlag, Berlin, 2006 (lead author w/ E. Bernhardt, R. Oren, J. Pippen et al.)"Biomass and Toxicity Responses of Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) to Elevated Atmospheric CO2," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S., 2006 (coauthor w/ J. Mohan MEM'93, PhD'02 and J. Clark et al.)"Global Change Science," Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2006 (author)

John Terborgh, James B. Duke Research Professor"Vegetation Dynamics of Predator-free Land-bridge Islands," Journal of Ecology, 2006 (lead author)"Habitat Fragmentation and Effects of Herbivore (Howler Monkey) Abundances on Bird Species Richness," Ecology, 2006 (coauthor)

Lisa M. Valvo, staff specialist (DEL)"How Does Underlying Geology Affect Coastline Change? An Initial Modeling Investigation," Geophysical Research Letters, 2006 (lead author w/ A. B. Murray and A. Ashton)

Avner Vengosh, associate professor"Rooting out Radioactive Groundwater," Geotimes, May 2006 (author)

Erika Weinthal, associate professor of environmental policy"The Water Crisis in the Gaza Strip: Prospects for Resolution," Ground Water, October 2005 (lead author w/ A. Vengosh et al.