| Larry
Crowder, Stephen Toth professor of marine ecology,
was appointed this spring to the Ocean Studies Board of the
National Research Council. He is a member of a study group
on the Alaska groundfish fishery and Steller sea lions.
Coleman A. Doggett, visiting instructor, received
the A.D. Hopkins Award for outstanding contributions to Southern
Forest Entomology, August, 2000.
Ronie Garcia-Johnson, assistant professor of environmental
policy, was elected to term membership in the Council on Foreign
Relations.
 Karen
George Kirchof, director of Career Services at the Nicholas
School, was named an Outstanding Environmental Career Counselor
by the Environmental Career Center in Hampton, Va., recognizing
her as one of the best environmental career counselors in
the country.
Kee Sung Kyung, Ph.D., Department of Pesticide Safety,
National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology,
Korea, and visiting scientist in the laboratory of David Hinton,
is the recipient of an Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development award permitting him to study at Duke.
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Kenneth
H. Reckhow, professor of water resources, chaired
a National Academy of Sciences committee to review the quality
of science used to develop and implement TMDLs. He testified
on the subsequent report, "Assessing the TMDL Approach to
Water Quality Management," at a June 28 hearing before the
U.S. House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
 Martin
D. Smith, assistant professor of environmental economics,
received a national award from the American Agricultural Economics
Association, Aug. 7. The award, Outstanding Essay for the
21st Century, Honorable Mention ($1,000), is for "The Marine
Environment: Fencing the Last Frontier," coauthor, Jim Wilen.
Shaocai Yu, research associate, was selected to chair
the Clouds and Aerosols II section of the AGU 2001 Spring
meeting in Boston, Mass., May 29-June 2. He presented a paper,
"A Simulation of the Influence of Aerosol Microphysical Processes
on Properties of Sulfate Aerosols in the Eastern United States:
mass and number concentrations, and size distributions."
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