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Kramer, professor of resource and environmental economics,
delivered a presentation, "Human Migration and Resource Use
in Indonesian Fishing Communities" to the 9th International
Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia, Oct. 23-27, 2000.
Brad Murray,
associate professor in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
has made several presentations, including "Large scale coastal
behavior: Possible instability of straight sandy shorelines,"
and "Modeling large scale coastal morphodynamics," both presented
at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting; and "The importance
of non-local effects in inner-shelf sediment transport and
morphological development: Rip-current channels and rippled
scour depressions," presented at the Society of Engineering
Science in Columbia, S.C.
Ram Oren,
associate professor of ecology/ecophysiology, participated
in several conferences and workshops, including giving a presentation
to the annual workshop on Physics Applied to Agriculture,
Agrophysics 2000, "The effects of hydraulic properties of
plant and soil on ecosystem transpiration."
 Curtis
J. Richardson, head of the Nicholas School’s Division
of Environmental Sciences and Policy and director of the Duke
University Wetland Center, had two invited papers, "The ecological
basis for a phosphorous (P) threshold in the Everglades: Directions
for sustaining ecosystem structure and function," and "Slough
macrophyte community changes in the northern Everglades-Influence
of P enrichment and hydrology." Both were presented at the
Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (G.E.E.R.) Science
Conference in Naples, Fla.
Daniel D. Richter,
professor of forest soils and ecology, has participated in
several recent conferences. At the Soil Science of America
Meetings in St. Paul, Minn., he presented a talk, "How Acidic
Were Forest Soils in the Southern Piedmont in 1800?", and
co-authored a poster, "From Rocks to Soils: Elemental Loss
from Three Piedmont Soils." In December, Richter testified
before North Carolina’s legislative committee on the environment
about results from the Southern Center for Sustainable Forests
chip mill study, and he participated in a statewide broadcast
of "Chip Mills Demystified." Richter also presented a paper
about his work with forest and soil carbon to a conference
held to inform the Italian delegation to the Hague Conference
on Controlling the Carbon Cycle in Rome, Italy. In addition,
he presented a paper, "How Rapid is Fine-Root Turnover? Bomb-Carbon
Evidence in Roots of Pinus taeda at the Calhoun Experimental
Forest" to a carbon conference.
Stuart Rojstaczer, associate professor in the Division
of Earth and Ocean Sciences, was the co-convener of the 8th
Annual Hubbert Quorum on Fluids and Geological Processes in
Menlo Park, Calif. He also presented the Sigma Xi lecture,
"The Politics of Storing the Most Dangerous Poison in the
World," and the AAUP lecture, "When Teaching and Learning
are Optional," at the University of Louisville in February.
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Craig Stow, visiting assistant professor
of water resources, was invited to speak at the conference,
"Research Problems in Freshwater Ecosystems," at the Cooperative
Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology at Monash University
in Melbourne, Australia.
Dharni Vasudevan, assistant professor of environmental
chemistry, and Ellen M. Cooper, associate in research, made
a presentation, "Retention polar/ionogenic herbicides in Iron
Oxide Rich Piedmont Soils" at the symposium on Chemistry of
Pesticides and Organics in Soils, Soil Science Society of
America, Minneapolis, Minn., November 2000.
Jonathan Wiener,
professor of law and environmental policy, recently gave two
presentations, "Something Borrowed for Something Blue: Legal
Transplants in Global Environmental Law," at Georgetown Law
School in Washington, D.C., and "Comparing Precaution in the
U.S. and Europe," at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, N.Y.
Robert Wolpert,
associate professor of statistics and decision sciences and
of environment, made a presentation in September, "Inference
for Underdispersed Point Processes: Overstory Trees in Duke
Forest," at the TMR Conference on Spatial and Computational
Statistics in Ambleside, England.
Dr. Shaocai Yu, research associate, and colleagues
gave a presentation at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco:
"A Simulation of the Influence of Aerosol Microphysical Processes
on Properties of Sulfate Aerosols in the Eastern United States
1:mass and number concentrations, and size distributions"
by Shaocai Yu, P.S. Kasibhatla, associate professor, and D.L.Wright,
research associate, R. McGraw and S.E. Schwartz.
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