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In July, Gail Cannon, manager of academic
services at the Duke Marine Lab, attended the Coastal Zone
‘03 Conference held in Baltimore, Md., and sponsored
by NOAA Coastal Services Center in Charleston, S.C.
At the August 2003 Academy of Management meeting in Seattle,
Wash., Deborah
Rigling Gallagher, visiting assistant professor,
presented two papers: “Environmental Management Systems
and Sustainability: A Framework for Understanding Stakeholder
Influence,” and “Building Environmental Management
Systems Focused on Sustainability: The Influence of Employees,
Company Leaders and External Stakeholders.”
 Robert
Healy, professor of environmental policy, participated
in a study tour of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in June,
organized by the Center for Canadian Studies, University of
Maine. Healy will be on sabbatical during the 2003-04 academic
year, conducting a comparative study of non-government financial
opportunities for natural, cultural and historic parks in
Canada, Mexico and the United States.
 Gabriele
C. Hegerl, associate research professor, convened
a session on climate change detection at the International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) meeting of the International
Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS).
The session, MC14 Detecting and Attributing the Early Signs
of Human Influences on the Climate (ICCl), was held in Sapporo,
Japan, in June-July.
In May, Hegerl gave a talk on spatio-temporal modeling at
the Statistical and Applied Mathematics Sciences Institute
(SAMSI) workshop, Boulder, Colo., and was a discussant at
a workshop on “Reconstructing Climate Policy: Moving
Beyond the Kyoto Impasse at Duke University.”
 Gabriel
Katul, professor of hydrology, attended the Joint
European Geophysical Union/American Geophysical Union (EGU/AGU)
in Nice, France, in April and gave the following talks: “Evaluating
Three Forest Growth Models of Varying Complexities with Data
from a Southern U.S. Loblolly Pine Forest under Ambient and
Elevated Atmospheric CO2” (with Siqueira, M., P. Stoy,
and J. Juang); “Quantifying Canopy Sources, Sinks, and
Fluxes Using Forward and Inverse Methods” (with M. Siqueira);
“A Comparison of CO2 Fluxes for One Year at Three Irish
Sites: Two Grassland Pastures and One Blanket Peatland”
(with Kiely, G., J. Albertson, R. Oren; and T. Scanlon); “Characterisation
of The Nocturnal Canopy Sublayer Above an Even-Aged Pine Forest”
(with Cava, D., M. Siqueira, and U. Giostra); “Characteristic
Length Scales in Dense and Sparse Canopies” (with Poggi,
D., A. Porporato, L. Ridolfi, J.D. and G. Albertson).
Randall Kramer,
professor of resource and environmental economics, gave an
invited address to the World Parks Congress in Durban, South
Africa, in September. His presentation was “Ecosystem
Benefits and Protected Areas: An Economic Perspective.”
In April, Kramer was an invited participant
in a workshop on future scenarios for protected areas at IUCN,
The World Conservation Union, Geneva.
Lynn Maguire,
associate professor of the practice of environmental management,
attended the Water Resources Research Institute of the University
of North Carolina’s 2003 Annual Conference on Valuing
North Carolina’s Water Resources and gave a talk on
“Science, Modeling and Stakeholder Values in the Neuse
TMDL Process.” The conference was held in Raleigh, N.C.,
in April. As an invited speaker, Maguire talked on “Approaches
to Assessing and Managing Uncertainty and Risk” at the
Innovations in Species Conservation: A Symposium on Integrative
Approaches to Address Rarity and Risk held in Portland, Ore.,
in April.
At the joint EGU/AGU meeting in Nice, France in April, A.
Brad Murray, assistant professor of geomorphology
and coastal processes, was a presenter in a session that he
also organized: “Self-Organized Behavior of Modeled
Shoreline Shapes” (with A. Ashton), and “Inner
Continental Shelf Grain-Size Sorted Patterns: Instability
and Self-Organization” (with E.R. Thieler).
At the Fifth International Symposium on Coastal Engineering
and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes conference held
in May, in Clearwater Beach, Fla., Murray
presented “Sandy-Coastline Evolution as an Example of
Pattern Formation Involving Emergent Structures and Interactions”
(with A. Ashton), also published in Proceedings of Coastal
Sediments 2003.
Jeffrey S. Pippen, research associate, presented
the paper, “Community Composition and Photosynthetic
Rate of Photoautotrophs Under Quartz Pebbles in the Southern
Mojave Desert, California” (coauthors Schlesinger,W.H.,
M.D. Wallenstein, D.M. Klepeis and B.E. Mahall), at the Ecological
Society of America (ESA) meeting in Savannah, Ga., in August.
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 Ken
H. Reckhow, professor of water resources in the
Nicholas School, and director of the Water
Research Institute of the University of North
Carolina, conducted a one-week short course in July at the
University of Zurich-EAWAG, Switzerland on “Decision
Analysis and Water Resources.” Reckhow served as co-editor,
Journal Water Resources Planning and Management, special issue
on “TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management”
in July/August. He also chaired a session on “Adaptive
Environmental Management” at the Annual Universities
Council on Water Resources Conference in Washington, D.C.
In May, Reckhow was a featured speaker for
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Symposium
on Environmental Modeling in Washington, D.C. His talk was
on “Scientific Treatment of Uncertainty in Environmental
Models.
Curtis
J. Richardson, professor of resource ecology
and chair, division of environmental science and policy, presented
“Organic Phosphorus in Wetlands: an Assessment of Mechanisms
Controlling Storage, Availability and Transport” as
an invited speaker at the Organic P 2003 Conference, Ascona,
Switzerland, in July.
In June, Richardson gave a talk on “Selection
of Wetland Restoration Sites in Rural Watersheds to Improve
Water Quality” at the Society of Wetland Scientists
24th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La.
In May, he presented “Successful Everglades Restoration
is Not a River of Grass”at the Ohio State University
Wetlands Invitational, held in Olentangy River Wetland Research
Park, Columbus, Ohio.
Kathryn
A. Saterson, research scientist and executive
director, Duke Center for Environmental
Solutions, gave a talk on “International
Cooperation in Conservation of Biological Diversity”
at the Duke Global Dialogues Institute on International Cooperation
at Wake Forest University in June. The talk was to high school
students in the Duke Talent Identification Program.
William
H. Schlesinger, James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry
and dean, was the keynote speaker in May at the meeting of
the Geochemical Reference Model (GERM) in Lyon, France.
At the April Symposium on Environmental Change and Human
Health, Schlesinger was a featured speaker
and talked on “Environmental Change Scenarios for the
Future.” The symposium took place at The William and
Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education at the University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Other Nicholas School participants
included Richard
Di Giulio, professor of environmental toxicology
and, director, Superfund
Basic Research Center, and Marie
Lynn Miranda, Gabel Associate Professor of the
Practice in Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Environmental
Management and, director, Children’s
Environmental Health Initiative.
Martin D. Smith,
assistant professor of environmental economics, presented
“Trophic Portfolios in Marine Fisheries: A Step Towards
Ecosystem Management” at the American Agricultural Economics
Association Annual Meetings in Montreal, Canada, in July.
In June he gave a talk on “Spatial Search in Commercial
Fishing: A Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Approach”
at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Workshop on Spatial Modeling, Theory, and Econometrics in
Environmental and Resource Economics held in Madison,Wis.
In May, Smith presented “State Dependence
and Heterogeneity in Fishing Location Choice,” at the
North American Association of Fisheries Economists Conference
held in Williamsburg, Va.
He also presented this work as an invited speaker for the
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University
of Maryland, College Park, Md.
Jonathan B.
Wiener, professor of law and professor of environmental
policy, presented “Risk Analysis and the Precautionary
Principle” at the World Congress on Risk in Brussels,
France in June. At the Third Transatlantic Dialogue on Precaution
Wiener presented “The US, the EU, and Precaution.”
Also, he served as conference co-organizer. The conference
was organized by the Duke Center
for Environmental Solutions, the European Policy
Centre, the European Commission, the US Mission to the EU,
and the German Marshall Fund and convened in Berlin, Germany.
In May, Wiener co-organized and gave a
talk on “Reconstructing Climate Policy” at the
Eighth Annual Colloquium on Environmental Law & Institutions
at Duke. At the Harvard School of Public Health, Washington
D.C., he gave a talk on “Risk Analysis under Federal
Law.”
Robert L.
Wolpert, professor of statistics and decision
sciences and professor of the environment, presented “Disease
Mapping with Disparate Spatial Data” at the SAMSI/GSP
Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Modeling, held at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Boulder, Colo.,
in June.
In July, at the ISI International Conference on Environmental
Statistics and Health in Santiago de Compostella, Spain, Wolpert
presented “Limiting Ecological Bias in Spatial Environmental
Epidemiology.”
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