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Memberships, Appointments, and Awards
Assistant Research Scientist Karen Eckert’s book Sea Turtles: An Ecological Guide, Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, published in late 2004, has just won the Best Natural Science Book for 2005 award from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association. The book also received an Honorable Mention award for best Text or Reference Book.
The Duke Environmental Leadership Program (DEL) was named the 2005 “Outstanding Environmental Organization” by the Environmental Educators of North Carolina (EENC), the professional association for environmental education in our state. The announcement was made at EENC’s annual meeting in Columbia, N.C., on Nov. 5. Associate Director Deborah Hall was there to accept the honor.
John Terborgh, James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science, was named Honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation this year at the annual meeting in August in Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The honor is the highest conferred by the society.
Grants | Grants of $50,000 or more awarded to faculty in the past six months
James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology, National Science Foundation (NSF), $126,000, “The 2nd Summer Institute:Uncertainty in Ecological Inference, Forecasting, and Decision- Modern Statistical Computation.” Duration: 12 months; NSF, $1,247,842, Collaborative Research: “SEI (BIO)- Automated Methods for Generating High-Resolution GIS Databases from Remotely Sensed Data for Biodiversity Predictions.” Duration: 48 months.
Gabriele Hegerl, associate research professor, NSF, $400,002, Collaborative QEIB Research: “Spatio-temporal Modeling of Species Distributions and Biodiversity— Integrating Climate and Population Responses.” Duration: 24 months.
Patrick N. Halpin, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, $378,244, “Geospatial Analysis Tool Development for Marine Ecosystembased Management and Conservation Planning.” Duration: 12 months.
Robert B. Jackson, professor of environmental sciences and biology, National Institute for Global Environmental Change, $100,000, “Woody Encroachment and Carbon Storage Across Regional Gradients in Precipitation and Land Use.” Duration: 12 months.
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Susan Lozier, professor of physical oceanography, Office
of Naval Research, $62,940, “A Focus on the Scientific Contributions
by Women to the Field of Physical Oceanography (supplement).” Duration:
10 months; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), $157,936,
“Education and Outreach for the NASA Aquarius Satellite Mission.” Duration:
60 months; NSF, $353,777, “The Impact of Subtropical Mode Water on the
Subsurface Nutrient Reservoir: Adding Nutrient Measurements to CLIMODE.”
Duration: 12 months.
Peter E. Malin, professor of seismology and of civil and environmental engineering, Stanford University, $60,000, “An Easily Removable Instrumentation System for SAFOD Pilot Hole Geophysical Monitoring and Sensor Evaluation (Supplement).” Duration: 11 months.
Marie Lynn Miranda, associate research professor, Wallace Genetic Foundation, $92,000, “Exploring the Contribution of Genetics to the Elevated Blood Lead Levels in African-American Children.” Duration: 18 months.
Joseph S. Ramus, research professor of biological oceanography, NSF, $159,758, “FSML—Technology and Teleconferencing Improvements for the Duke University Marine Laboratory.” Duration:12 months.
Curtis J. Richardson, professor of resource ecology, Natural Resources Conservation Service, $52,000, “Duke Forest Stormwater Improvement and Wetlands Restoration Project.” Duration: 12 months.
William H. Schlesinger, James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry, Wallace Genetic Foundation, $200,000, “General Support for NSEES.” Duration: 24 months; Duke Energy Corporation, $4,167,000, Collaborative Research: “Climate Change Policy Partnership.” Duration: 12 months.
Dean L. Urban, associate professor of landscape ecology, NASA, $120,000, “Carbon Dynamics in Heterogeneous Landscapes: Fusing Remote Sensing and Spatial Ecological Models.” Duration: 12 months.
—Compiled by Donna Sell, Nicholas School communications assistant