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Scope | Faculty & Staff Notes

In Print

Paul A. Baker, professor of geology, co-authored “Early warming of tropical South America at the Last Glacial- interglacial transition,” published in the journal Science, May 31.

James S. Clark, Hugo Blomquist Professor of Biology and Earth and Ocean Sciences, has co-authored “Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity,” published in Nature, June 13.

John W. Terborgh, James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science, has co-authored “Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees,” published in Science, Jan. 25.

Robert B. Jackson, associate professor of botany and of environment, is the lead author of “Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands,” published in Nature, Aug. 8.

Gabriel G. Katul, professor of hydrology and professor of ecology, Ram Oren, and others are co-authors of the paper “Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind” which was published in the July 25 issue of the journal Nature.

Professor of resource and environmental economics Randall A. Kramer co-authored with former master’s student Tijen Arin “Divers’ Willingness to Pay to Visit Marine Sanctuaries: An Exploratory Study,” 2002, for Ocean and Coastal Management 45: 171-183. Kramer and graduate student Christopher Liese have published “Migration and Fishing in Indonesian Coastal Issues” in a special June issue of the Swedish journal Ambio. With graduate student Jonathan Eisen-Hecht, he published “A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Quality Protection in the Catawba Basin” in the Journal of the Water Resources Association.

Lincoln PratsonAssistant professor of sedimentary geology Lincoln Pratson is co-author of “The Shaping of Continental Slopes by Internal Tides,” with D.A. Cacchione and A.S. Ogston, published in the April 26 issue of the journal Science.

Peter HaffPeter K. Haff, professor of geology and civil and environmental engineering and chair of the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, published “Neogeomorphology,” a discussion of the role of human as geologic agents, in the July 16 issue of EOS, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.

Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice in Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Environmental Management Marie Lynn Miranda, together with research associates Dana C. Dolinoy , Mayra A. Overstreet have published “Mapping for Prevention: GIS Models for Directing Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs,” in the September 2002 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives.

William H. Schlesinger, dean and James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry has authored or contributed to the following published papers:

  • Schlesinger. W.H. 2002. “Biogeochemicalcycles”, “Biosphere,” “Desertification,” and “Nitrogen Cycle.” In A.S. Goudie and D.J. Cuff (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Global Change. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Hamilton, J.G., E.H. DeLucia, K. George, S.L. Naidu, A.C. Finzi, and W.H. Schlesinger. 2002. “Forest carbon balance under elevated CO2.” Oecologia.
  • Huenneke, L.F., J.P. Anderson, M. Remmenga, and W.H. Schlesinger. 2002. “Desertification alters patterns of aboveground net primary production in Chihuahuan ecosystems.” Global Change Biology.
  • Powers, J.S. and W.H. Schlesinger. 2002. “Geographic and vertical patterns of stable carbon isotopes in tropical rain forest soils of Costa Rica.” Geoderma.
  • Schlesinger, W.H. 2002. “Inorganic carbon and the global carbon cycle.” In R. Lal (ed.). Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York.

Martin D. Smith, assistant professor of environmental economics, has two new publications:

  • Smith, M.D. and J.E. Wilen. 2002. “The Marine Environment: Fencing the Last Frontier” in Review of Agricultural Economics.
  • Klonsky, K. and M.D. Smith. 2002. Entry and Exit in California’s Organic Farm Sector, in D.C. Hall and L.J. Moffitt, editors, Economics of Pesticides, Sustainable Food Production and Organic Food Markets, Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources. Volume 4, New York: Elsevier Science.

Dharni Vasudevan, assistant professor of environmental chemistry, coauthored the following: Vasudevan, D., E.M. Cooper, and O.L. Van Exem. 2002. “Sorption-Desorption of ionogenic compounds at the mineral-water interface: A comparison of metal oxide rich soils and pure phase minerals.” Environmental Science and Technology, 36, 501-511.

Jonathan B. Wiener, associate professor of law and of environment, has published the following:

  • Reconstructing Climate Policy. 2002. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press (with Richard B. Stewart).
  • “Sustainable Governance.” 2002. In John Martin Gillroy & Joe Bowersox, eds., The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decisionmaking. Durham:Duke University Press. pp.131-144.
  • “Precaution in a Multirisk World.” 2002. In Dennis Paustenbach, ed., Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice. John Wiley & Sons, pp.1509-1531.
  • “Designing Global Climate Regulation.” 2002. In Stephen Schneider, Armin Rosencranz & John-O Niles, eds., Climate Change Policy. Island Press.

Robert L. WolpertRobert L. Wolpert, professor of statistics and decision sciences and professor of the environment, has published the following:

  • R.L. Wolpert. 2002. “Gamma function.” In Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, vol. 2 (AH El-Shaarawi and WW Piegorsch, eds.), J Wiley & Sons, 837-839.
  • R.L. Wolpert. 2002. “L’evy processes.” In Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, vol. 2 (AH El-Shaarawi and WW Piegorsch, eds.), J Wiley & Sons, 1161-1164.

 

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