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The Dredging of the Hudson River
Two Associated with the Nicholas School Play a Role in this Benchmark for Environmental Cleanup

Discovering Uncharted Interior Pathways
Using an Armada of Specially Designed Floats, Scientists Take a New Look at the ‘Great Ocean Conveyor’ with Major Implications for Global Climate Change Research

Anticipating How Trees Will ‘Duke it Out’ with Global Warming
A corner of the Duke Forest has gone rustic high-tech.
- Personally Speaking: Breathtaking and Wounded
- Our Food Supply by the Numbers
- Robert Redford Duke Leaf Award Photo Spread
- Special Student Awards
- Public Trust Doctrine Could Aid Management of U.S. Oceans
- Wyatt Hartman Receives Dean’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
- Assessing the Pros and Cons of Geoengineering to Fight Climate Change
- Forty Nicholas School Faculty and Students Presented Research at 2009 ESA Meeting
- Mangroves Save Lives in Storms, Study of 1999 Super Cyclone Finds
- New Policy Brief Reviews Options for Improving U.S. Residential Energy Efficiency
dukenvironment is published twice a year by the Nicholas School of the Environment
Editor: Scottee Cantrell
| Art Director: Amy Chapman-Braun
Senior Writer: Tim Lucas
| Contributing Writers: Monte Basgall, Laura Ertel, Erica Rowell and Robyn Walker
Photography: Jared Lazarus, Chris Hildreth, Megan Morr and Les Todd, Duke Photography; Judy Rolfe;
Ari Friedlaender and Scott Taylor
Student Assistant: Laura Cloak MEM’11
Web Editors: Stephanie Thirolle and Brian Johnson
Thanks to the Nicholas School Office of External Affairs and Career Services offices for their assistance

