| Robert
Healy, professor of environmental policy, gave
a paper on “Non-Appropriation Methods for Financing
Government Protected Areas in North America” to the
annual meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of
Canada, Toronto, May 29.
Lynn A. Maguire,
associate professor of the practice of environmental management,
presented a paper, “Conservation and Invasive Species:
Can Decision Analysis Help?”, at the annual meeting
of the Society for Conservation Biology in Canterbury, England,
in July.
On June 6, Michael
K. Orbach, director of the Duke
Marine Laboratory and professor of the practice of marine
affairs and policy moderated a day-long symposium in the U.S.
House of Representatives on “Coral Reefs at Risk: Challenges
and Solutions.” This symposium, part of Capitol Hill
Oceans Week and sponsored by the House Oceans Caucus, featured
presentations by coral reef scientists from around the world
and a panel discussion involving members of the U.S. House
of Representatives and the assistant secretaries of the Departments
of State, Interior and Commerce.
Daniel D.
Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology,
delivered the Third Annual Lyle Nelson Soil Science Lecture
at Mississippi State University in Starkville, in February.
The topic was soil acidity and acidification.
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Judson Edeburn |
Richter and Duke
Forest Manager Judson Edeburn continued
their involvement with the dual certification project through
the Southern
Center for Sustainable Forests. They participated in a
conference in June on “Implementing Forest Certification:
The Real Experience by the First Dual-Certified State and
University Forests” in Raleigh, N.C
William
H. Schlesinger, dean and James B. Duke professor
of biogeochemistry, was the invited speaker for The Fourth
Annual Patrick Lecture at Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge, La., April 30. His lecture was “Global Futures:
Measuring Human Impacts on the Biosphere.”
Schlesinger also presented the paper “The
Global Carbon Cycle” at the Sixth International Symposium
on the Geochemistry of the Earth’s Surface, Honolulu,
Hawaii, May 20-24, and again for the British Society of Soil
Science, London, June 28.
Martin D. Smith,
assistant professor of environmental economics, presented
papers at the following conferences over the spring and summer:
World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in
Monterey, Calif.; American Agricultural Economics Association
Annual Meetings in Long Beach Calif; Camp Resources X in Wilmington.
N.C.; and International Institute for Fisheries Economics
and Trade in Wellington, New Zealand. At
the latter he was co-organizer of a
session called “Risk and Uncertainty in Capture Fisheries.”
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Dharni Vasudevan, assistant
professor of environmental chemistry, and associate in research,
Ellen M. Cooper, presented the talk “Sorption of organic
anions in iron oxide rich soils: Role of soil P and Al,”
at the symposium on Complexity at the Water-Solid Interface:
Mineral Surfaces and Nanoparticles, Division of Geochemistry,
American Chemical Society National Conference, Orlando, Fla.,
April 2002.
Vasudevan also presented “Environmental
chemistry at the mineral-water interface: Implications of
chemical fate and transport” at the Department of Inorganic
and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India, July.
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| Randall Kramer |
The Nicholas School had many participants at the Second World
Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Monterey,
Calif., June 24-27. School faculty in attendance were Randall
A. Kramer, professor of resource and environmental
economics, and Martin
D. Smith, assistant professor of environmental
economics. Adjunct faculty present were, Subhrendu
Pattanayak, Research Triangle Institute (RTI); Brian
Murray (RTI); Carol Mansfield (RTI);
and Tom Holmes, United States Forest Service
(USFS). Former doctoral and master’s students attending
were Erin Sills (NC State); Priya
Shyamsundar (World Bank); David Newman
(University of Georgia); Tijen Arin (World
Bank); Paul Ferraro (Georgia State); and
Wolfram Sclenkler (UC Berkeley).
The Congress is sponsored by the Association of Environmental
and Resource Economists (AERE) and the European Association
of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), and is hosted
by the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural and Resource Economics
at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis, together
with the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jonathan B.
Wiener, associate professor of law and of environment,
presented “Comparing Precaution in the U.S. and Europe”
at the Transatlantic Dialogue on the Reality of Precaution:
Comparing Approaches to Risk and Regulation, Warrenton,Va.,
June 14-15. The conference was organized by the Duke Center
for Environmental Solutions, the European Commission and the
German Marshall Fund.
On April 4, Wiener presented “Precaution”
at Vanderbilt University School of Law in Nashville, Tenn.,
and on March 1, at University of Colorado Law School in Boulder,
Colo., he presented “Reconstructing Climate Policy.”
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