WORKING GROUPS

Title	Initiated
Towards an empirical foundation for marine ecosystem-based management: fishing behavior, fish abundance, and climate change	2009-2010
Global change and the conservation of high latitude marine mammals	2009-2010
Water institutions and efficiency and equity in climate adaptation: searching for general behavior responses in bargaining under uncertainty	2009-2010
The drought effect on water availability and quality of North Carolina water resources: Groundwater-surface water interaction and contributions of recycled wastewater	2008-2009
Hydroclimate controls on malaria dynamics: an interdisciplinary approach	2007-2008
Life-cycle of analyses of biofuel production	2006-2007
Hurricanes: mapping the temporal evolution of land-use/land-cover along the historical tracks of land-falling hurricanes and tropical cyclones in the eastern U.S.	2006-2007
Understanding the carbon and water budget at the regional scale	2005-2006
Scaling of carbon exchange from intensively measured plots to the upper Neuse River basin	2005-2006
Climate feedbacks and carbon sequestration with afforestation scenarios in the U.S.	2004-2005
Global soil change: assessing values and uses of long-term soil-ecosystem experiments	2004-2005
Interannual variability of the Amazon and Orinoco plumes and their roles in climate/paleoclimate feedback Symposium >	2004-2005
Assessing carbon sinks and other biogeochemical changes with plantations: a global synthesis	2003-2004
Coastline change, coastal development & coastal ecosystems	2003-2004
Ocean climate modeling	Spring 2003
Scaled eco-hydraulics	Fall 2002
Ecological forecasting	Spring 2002

A working group is an interdisciplinary collaboration that includes faculty, postdoctoral associates and students. Working groups will convene at the Center to develop new science initiatives that will synthesize existing knowledge and to develop and implement novel research programs and organize proposals that will ensure continuing support.

Working groups can have lifetimes lasting between a semester and several years and are expected to reside primarily at the Center for at least one semester. Faculty will be expected to relocate to the Center, which will provide office space, clerical and computer support and meeting rooms.

Proposals to use Center facilities are selected through peer review by the executive committee. The Center will entertain a broad range of synthetic activities and approaches and will especially focus on topics that are new, timely and likely to have impact on research and graduate training at Duke University.

RFP FOR NEW WORKING GROUP PROPOSALS
The CGC is soliciting proposals from Duke faculty for activities that will establish new and innovative faculty collaborations and graduate training across disciplines in the area of global change science. Such collaborations and graduate training may be within the Duke community, or may involve faculty and research scientists from other universities and research institutions. Proposals can include working groups, workshops and symposia, support for visiting scholars, support for sabbatical faculty, or other activities.

2008 RFP for Working Group Proposals (Deadline: March 1, 2008)