Dukenvironment Archives

Spring 2009

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:18:48Z

Opportunities in a Downturned Economy:
  Four Experts Talk About Positive Environmental Action That Can be Taken Now Spanning the Globe Through Research and Education:
  Atmospheric Chemist Prasad Kasibhatla Pushes International Environmental Education Raising the Question of Safety:
  Analysis Shows Exposure to Ash from TVA Spill Could Have ‘Severe Health Implications’ view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Fall 2008

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:12:21Z

Unearthing Insights for a Sustainable Future In a Rural South Carolina Forest:
Dan Richter’s Team Investigates Environmental Effects of Wood Energy Taking on the Most Vexing Issues of the Third World:
Jeffrey Vincent Brings an Economist’s Perspective to the International Impacts of Tropical Forest Logging and ‘Brown Clouds’ It’s Not Theoretical Anymore:
Students Put Themselves on the Line to Deliver Products for Real-World Clients view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Spring 2008

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:11:50Z

An Avian Metropolis:
  Once-in-a-Lifetime Trip to Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Provides Lessons for Nicholas School Students About the Good and Bad Impacts of Human Activities Grappling Daily with Hot-Button Environmental Issues:
  Economist Richard Newell is Dedicated to Examining Options for Reducing Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions Biogeochemistry on the Farm:
  Eliza MacLean MEM’96 Puts Nutrient Cycling to Work on Her Alamance County Farm view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Fall 2007

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:11:29Z

Digging at the Intersection of Environment and Health:
  Duke Researchers Cross Disciplines to Search for Reasons We Get Sick and for Ways of Preventing It Deep in the Karst of Texas:
  Deep-rooted Trees are Sucking the Landscape Dry in the Southwest, but Rob Jackson is Working to Find Solutions An Irreconcilable Conflict:
  Marine Ecologist Rafe Sagarin Bridges the Gap Between Scientific Fact and Advocacy view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Spring 2007

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:11:06Z

Mapping Out Solutions:
  New Technology Gives Pat Halpin and Colleagues the Tools to do Better Science and be Better Resource Managers In Search of Cleaner Fuel:
  Peter Malin's Seismology Group Uses Earthquake Technology to Explore Sources of Geothermal Energy Diving into Uncharted Waters:
  Marine Lab Director Cindy Van Dover Literally Wrote the Book on Hydrothermal Vents view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Fall 2006

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:10:25Z

An Ongoing Story of Growth, Change and Adaptation:
  Norm Christensen's Professional Path to Ecology Followed Many Twists and Turns The Stream Doctor:
  Emily Bernhardt's Pioneering Research Focuses on Successfully Restoring Urban Waterways Bustling Hub of Research, Teaching and Recreation:
  Duke Forest Marks 75 Years as One of the Nation's Largest Private Research Forests and a Unique Resource for the University and Region view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Spring 2006

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:10:04Z

Can the Environment be a Peacemaking and State-building Tool?:
  Avner Vengosh and Erika Weinthal view solving the water crisis in Gaza as a potential step toward collaboration Does Danger Lurk in Your Carpet and Cell Phone?:
  New faculty member Heather Stapleton studies the risks posed by flame-retardant chemicals in the environment Can Science Save Coastal Development:
  Nicholas School faculty members play key roles in documenting threats and offering ways to avoid them view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Fall 2005

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:09:43Z

Will Plants Move Fast Enough to Keep Up With Contemporary Climate Change?:
  Researchers James Clark and Gabriel Katul Look Into the Future Working to Slow the Frightful Pace of Extinction:
  Marine Lab's Karen and Scott Eckert Make it Their Personal Mission to Take Sea Turtle Conservation to the Local Level Environmental Summit Launches Nicholas Institute:
  Summit Speakers Focus on Need for Consensus, Collaboration and Action on Environmental Issues view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Spring 2005

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:16:39Z

Oceanography Among the Tumbleweeds in Utah:
  Lincoln Pratson looks to the desert's Lake Powell to shed light on one of the deep sea's murkiest problems How Much Money Is Environmental Protection Worth?:
  Randall Kramer and his students calculate the tab, whether in Indonesia and North Carolina An Entrepreneur of Social Sciences:
  Marine Lab director brings anthropologist's view and a connection to the sea to the facilitation table view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Fall 2004

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:16:20Z

An Unlikely Star of Science:
  Jonathan Freedman looks to microscopic roundworms to document the effects of toxic chemicals Protecting the 'Beautiful, Savory Swimmer':
  Richard Forward's blue crab research crucial to saving habitats and setting sustainable catch limits The Iron Experiments:
  Richard Barber's team goes to the end of the earth to see if dust once played a role in climate change view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Spring 2004

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:15:57Z

Investing In The Future Of The Environment:
  $70 million gift from Pete and Ginny Nicholas will support new institute for environmental policy solutions Small Fish For A Large Task:
  David Hinton takes his medaka west to monitor California's drinking water Factoring Humans Into The Environmental Picture:
  instead of seeing local people as poachers or polluters, social scientist Lisa Campbell views them as part of the landscape No Stone Unturned:
  Peter Haff devotes 25 years to studying nature's desert pavement view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Fall 2003

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:15:39Z

Hitching A Ride On The Global Ocean Conveyor Belt:
  Susan Lozier studies how currents deep below the ocean's surface can affect our climate From Duke To The Everglades To Iraq:
  Curt Richardson's wetland journey sheds new light on one of natures historically maligned areas Duke's Seamapping Dream Team:
  computer savvy ecologists at Duke are taking spatial analysis offshore as part of a worldwide effort to take stock of what lives in the sea view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Spring 2003

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:15:19Z

Species In Trouble:
  Stuart Pimm and his students seek out the 'hottest of the hot spots' in their efforts to stem global loss of biodiversity Loggerhead Crisis Brewing:
  surprising study results show more females than males hatching in northern population Secret Life of Waves:
  Duke researchers are finding that the waves we never see may play a big role in shaping the planet view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Fall 2002

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:14:59Z

Mapping Environmental Health:
  Marie Lynn Miranda uses geospatial technologies to protect our children Cruise to the Incipient Rift:
  Emily Klien 'Mows' the East Pacific to reveal secrets of magma Boat Bottoms, Barnacles and Modern Medicine:
  Dan Rittschof hopes the 'drug store' will offer a safe substance to keep barnacles off boats view the magazine online | download a .pdf

Spring 2002

stepht — 2009-10-27T18:14:39Z

Tropical Forest Clearinghouse:
  ParksWatch works against the clock to save protected areas An Historian of Global Climate Change:
  introducing the newest Nicholas Chair Entering the World of Dolphins:
  research so compelling that Andy Read rarely takes a holiday view the magazine online | download a .pdf