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 Richard
T. Di Giulio, professor of environmental toxicology,
was among several Nicholas School faculty who participated
in a recent workshop entitled Emerging Molecular and Computational
Approaches for Cross-Species Extrapolations. Di Giulio was
co-chairman of the workshop. Jonathan H. Freedman,
associate professor of environmental toxicology, served on
the steering committee, and Elwood A. Linney,
professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, and environment,
cochaired one of the working groups. All will be coauthors
on a book that summarizes the workshop. The workshop, held
in July in Portland, Ore., was sponsored by the Society of
Toxicology and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry with financial support provided by the National
Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
the Procter and Gamble Co., and Pfizer Inc. As a result, Di
Giulio was invited by the National Academy of Sciences to
give a talk on “Applications of Toxicogenomics to Cross-species
Extrapolation” at a workshop held in Washington, D.C., in
August.
In June, Robert Healy, professor
of environmental policy, visited Honduras at the invitation
of the Copan Maya Foundation. He gave seminars on sustainable
tourism to the Honduras Ministry of Tourism, and investigated
tourism development at the archeological site of Copan.
In May, Healy spent two weeks at El Colegio de
Mexico in Mexico City as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. He
gave a public lecture on protecting biodiversity in Canada,
Mexico, and the United States, and a seminar on the relation
between an aging population and labor migration. Healy also
participated in a case study of desertification in San Luis
Potosi, Mexico.
Randall A. Kramer, professor
of resource and environmental economics, was an invited expert
panelist in August for a meeting at the World Health Organization
in Geneva on data needs for implementing the Stockholm Convention
on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Gabriele Hegerl, associate research
professor, presented an invited talk together with Nicholas
Professor of Earth Systems Science Thomas Crowley, “Estimating
Climate Sensitivity From Paleoclimatic Records of the Last
Millennium,” to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
workshop on climate sensitivity in Paris, France, in July.
In June, she presented an invited plenary talk,
“Climate Change Detection and Attribution: Beyond Mean Temperature
Signals,” for the Climate Variability & Predictability
meeting in Baltimore, Md.
In May, Hegerl gave an invited talk on “Climate
Change Detection and Attribution” at the 9th International
Meeting on Statistical Climatology in Capetown, Africa.
 Marie
Lynn Miranda, Gabel Chair in Environmental Ethics
and Sustainable Environmental Management and director of the
Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI), presented
CEHI’s work in a plenary presentation to the Gulf Coast Pediatric
Environmental Health Symposium in Houston, Texas, in March.
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Lynn A. Maguire,
associate professor of the practice of environmental management
and director of professional studies, this summer chaired
a scientific panel reviewing the Northern Spotted Owl monitoring
program under the Northwest Forest Plan.
Michael K. Orbach, professor
of the practice of marine affairs and policy and director,
Duke University Marine Laboratory, in May spoke at the opening
plenary session of the biannual meeting of The Coastal Society
in Newport, R.I.
For the second consecutive year, in April, he
delivered an invited lecture in the Bevin Series on Sustainable
Fisheries at the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences
at the University of Washington. The title of this year’s
lecture was “Crawfish in the Keys and Our Evolving Ocean Ethos.”
 Curtis
J. Richardson, professor of resource ecology and
director, Duke University Wetland Center, has been traveling
broadly to speak about his work to restore the marshlands
of southern Iraq.
In July, Richardson spoke about the Iraqi project
at the INTECOL 7th International Wetlands Conference in Utrecht,
The Netherlands, where he also gave the plenary lecture, “Biogeochemistry
in Wetlands: A Global Perspective,” and the research presentation
“Phosphorus Availability and Limitations in the Everglades:
An Assessment of Controls.”
In June, Richardson traveled to Amman, Jordan,
for a Canadian International Development Agency-sponsored
workshop on the restoration of the Iraqi wetlands. The meeting
brought together nearly 50 Iraqi scientists and researchers
from the United States, Canada, and Europe to discuss the
most recent developments in the region. “The Role of Wetland
in the Landscape” was his presentation topic at the June annual
meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
in Savannah, Ga.
Richardson was this year’s invited speaker for
the Patrick Lecture Series at Louisiana State University in
May. He spoke to a large generalinterest audience with his
lecture “Wetlands of Mass Destruction: How the Hussein Regime
Destroyed the Mesopotamian Marshes and Their 5,000-Year-Old
Ma’dan Culture.” While at LSU, Richardson also gave a second,
more technical scientific presentation entitled “Setting a
Phosphorus Threshold for The Everglades: Did Science Really
Matter?”
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May, William H. Schlesinger, dean and James
B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry, and M. Susan Lozier,
Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Professor of
Physical Oceanography, participated on a panel organized by
NC Environmental Defense for legislators of the North Carolina
General Assembly on the problems associated with global climate
change.
Jonathan B. Wiener, professor of law and
professor of environmental policy, presented a talk, “Precaution
in a Multirisk World,” at the Resources For the Future meeting
and gave another talk on “Risk Analysis Under Federal Law,”
at the Harvard School of Public Health course Analyzing Regulations.
Both talks took place in April in Washington, D.C.
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