|  Larry
B. Crowder, (shown left) Stephen Toth Professor of
Marine Ecology, and Michael
K. Orbach, director of the Duke Marine Lab and professor
of the practice of marine affairs and policy, chaired two
sessions at the recent COMPASS meeting on Marine Protected
Areas in Monterey, Calif. This meeting invited 100 scientists
and decision-makers from around the United States to discuss
the potential for a full system of marine protected areas
in U.S. waters.
Renata Leite, research associate, Center for Tropical
Conservation, presented a seminar to the Wildlife Conservation
Research Unit in the Zoology Department at Oxford University,
"South America's Elusive Rain Forest Canid, The Short-Eared
Dog: What is Known About its Ecology, Diet and Social Behavior."
The seminar represented the first research on this rare species
and was supported by Diney Conservation Fund, IdeaWild, British
Airlines, and Wildlife Materials.
Randall A. Kramer,
professor of resource and environmental economics, was invited
to speak on "Incentive Measures for Biodiversity: A review
of selected countries in central, eastern and western Europe,"
at a United Nations Development Program Workshop on Biodiversity
Incentives in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 5.
Lynn A. Maguire,
associate professor of the practice of environmental management,
was an invited speaker at a workshop sponsored by the Ecological
Society of America and the Society for Risk Analysis, October
2001, New Mexico. Her talk was "What Can Decision Analysis
Do for Invasive Species Management?"
Marie Lynn Miranda,
Dan and Bunny Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of
Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Development, presented
"Environmental Justice Issues for the Hispanic Community"
to NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
staff, September 2001.
A. Bradshaw Murray,
assistant professor of geomorphology and coastal processes
made the following presentations and talks:
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with Thieler, R., Guillemot, F., and Tang, E., 2001,
"A new view of sediment sorting: The self-organization
of rippled scour depressions," American Geophysical Union
Fall Meeting (EOS Transactions 82, pg. F623);
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"The self-organization of large-scale shoreline shapes,"
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Complex Systems
Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, October
2001.
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 Kenneth
H. Reckhow, professor of water resources, made the
following invited presentations:
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February 2002, "The TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management."
Presented at The Environmental Forum on TMDLs in Texas;
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December 2001, "A summary of the NAS Review of the TMDL
program." Annual Conference of the Florida Stormwater
Association. Orlando, Fla .
Curtis J. Richardson,
professor of resource ecology and director the Duke University
Wetland Center gave an invited seminar at Harvard School of
Design, Nov. 9, "Restoration of the Everglades: Can it be
successful without the application of ecological guidelines."
Daniel D. Richter,
professor of soils and forest ecology, was invited to give
the 2002 Lyle Nelson Lecture at Mississippi State University's
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Feb. 27: "Why Soil
Acidity Matters: From Edmund Ruffin to Acid Rain."
 Jonathan
B. Wiener, professor of law and environmental policy,
has given presentations at several conferences:
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"Comparing Precaution in the U.S. and Europe: Evaluating
the Conventional Wisdom," Bruges/Brugge, Belgium, Jan.
11-12.
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"Prudent Precaution in an Interconnected World," Dec.
4, and "Better Ways to Decide American Trucking," Dec.
3, Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting, Seattle,Wash.
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