|  Gary
S. Hartshorn, professor of the practice of tropical
ecology and president and CEO of the Organization for Tropical
Studies (OTS) based at Duke, is president-elect of the American
Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) for 2002. AIBS is
a federation of 87 professional associations and societies
representing approximately 240,000 biologists. Hartshorn will
serve as president in 2003.
 In
July, professor of resource and environmental economics Randall
A. Kramer was named to the World Commission on
Protected Areas (WCPA). The WCPA is a group of protected area
experts who promote the establishment and effective management
of a worldwide representative network of terrestrial and marine
protected areas and provide advice to the World Conservation
Union (IUCN). While on sabbatical during the past academic
year, Kramer was a visiting scholar at the IUCN headquarters
in Gland, Switzerland. He has worked on protected areas in
the United States, Indonesia, Madagascar and Mozambique.
Michael K.
Orbach, director of the Duke Marine Laboratory
and professor of the practice of marine affairs and policy,
has been elected to the National Board of Directors of the
Surfrider Foundation. With 40,000 members in over 50
chapters in the United States and abroad, Surfrider is one
of the largest and most effective coastal advocacy organizations
in the world. Orbach was elected in the fall of 2001 for a
3-year term beginning
in 2002.
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Daniel
D. Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology,
will receive the Excellence in Presentation Award during the
Annual Meeting of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
this coming November. The award is for the talk “How
Acidic Were Forest Soils in the Southern Piedmont in 1800?”
that Richter presented at the 2000 SSSA meeting in Minneapolis.
 Kathryn
Saterson, research scientist in the division
of environmental sciences and policy and executive director
of the Duke Center for Environmental
Solutions, was elected secretary of the Board of Governors
for the Society for Conservation Biology. Her term runs through
2005.
Robert L.
Wolpert, professor of statistics and decision
sciences and professor of the environment, was selected by
the Institute of Mathematical Statistics as 2002 Medallion
Lecturer. He also has been selected to the International Society
for Bayesian Analysis Board of Directors.
Jonathan B.
Wiener, associate professor of law and of environment,
has been named a University Fellow of Resources for the Future,
Washington D.C., through 2005, and also was elected to the
governing Council of the Society for Risk Analysis, 2001-04.
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