|  At
the Fall 2002 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, professor
of geology Paul
Baker presented the papers "Geochemical
and Diatom Records of Hydrologic Variability in the Tropical
Andes During the Late Quaternary From Drill Cores of Lake
Titicaca" (with S. Fritz, G. Seltzer, K. Arnold, P. Tapia),
and "Oxygen Isotopes and Ring Widths in the Tropical
Tree Species Polylepis tarapacana as Proxies of Past
Precipitation in the Tropical Andes of South America"
(with A. Ballantyne, R. Jackson, M. Silman, M. Evans, and
S. Leavitt).
Larry Crowder,
Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Ecology, was a participant
in the talk, "Bycatch from Different Fishing Gears: Impacts
from Populations to Ecosystems," and organizer for "Rethinking
the Management of Oceanic Pelagics: Forging a Future for Sea
Turtles" during the annual meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) held in Denver, Colo.,
in February.
In November, Peter
Haff, professor of geology and civil and environmental
engineering and chair of the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
gave an invited talk on "The Future of Landscape - Does
Nature Bat Last?" for the Department of Geological Sciences
at Florida State University, and again in December for the
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns
Hopkins University.
Professor of Geology Jeffrey
Karson begins a research cruise aboard the R/V
Atlantis this April for an investigation of the Lost
City Vent Field in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with the Alvin
submersible.
In October, at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society
of America held in Denver, Colo., Karson participated in the
Integrated Tectonics Forum, sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.
In September, he made two poster presentations for the Inter-Ridge
Theoretical Institute on Thermal Regime of Ocean Ridges and
Dynamics of Hydrothermal Circulation in Pavia, Italy: "Geologic
Setting of Serpentinite-Hosted Hydrothermal Vents at the Lost
City, Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30¡N"
(with E.A. Williams, D.S. Kelley, D.K. Blackman and the MARVEL
Cruise Participants), and "Outcrop-Scale Structure of
the Atlantis Massif with Implications for its Evolution"
(with E.A. Williams).
Karson also attended the Fall 2002 Meeting of the American
Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Calif., in December and
gave the following talks: "Proterozoic Blueschist-Bearing
Melange in the Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Implications
for Pan-African Subduction" (with K.P. Hefferan, H. Admou,
R Hilal, A. Saquaque, T. Juteau, and M. Bohn); "Internal
Structure of Uppermost Oceanic Crust Created at Intermediate-to
Fast-Spreading Ridges: Evidence of Subaxial Faulting, Tilting,
and Subsidence from Vertical Crustal Sections"; and "The
Ultramafic-Hosted Lost City Hydrothermal Field: Clues in The
Search for Life Elsewhere in the Solar System?" (with
D.S Kelley, J.A. Baross, G.L. Fr?h-Green, and M.O. Schrenk).
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 Lynn
Maguire, associate professor of the practice
of environmental management, gave the talk "What Can
Decision Analysis Do for Invasive Species Management?"
at the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis in
New Orleans, La., December 2002.
A. Bradshaw
Murray, assistant professor of geomorphology
and coastal processes, gave several talks at the Fall 2002
Meeting of the American Geophysical Union held in San Francisco,
Calif: "Rip Currents and Rip Channels on Non-Barred Beaches:
A Secondary Morphodynamic Feedback? Field Evidence and Model
Results"; "Self-Organized Evolution of Sandy Coastline
Shapes: Connections with Shoreline Erosion Problems"
(with A. Ashton); "Formation of Rip Currents Due to Wave-Current
Interactions" (with J. Yu); and "Are There Connections
Between Erosional Hot Spots and Alongshore Sediment Transport
Along the North Carolina Outer Banks?" (with A. Ashton).
John W. Terborgh,
James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science, was the
invited keynote speaker for the annual meeting of Conservation
International held in April at the Smithsonian National Museum
of Natural History, Washington, D.C. The weeklong meeting
had a technical focus with themes of invasive species; land
use change, pollution and global climate change; monitoring
and evaluation of conservation outcomes; and centers for biodiversity
conservation (CBCs): changing the scale of conservation.
Professor of Law and Environmental Policy Jonathan
B. Wiener presented "Comparing Precaution
in the U.S. and Europe," at the Sanford Institute of
Public Policy, Duke University in January 2003.
In December 2002, at the annual meeting of the Society for
Risk Analysis in New Orleans, La., he presented "Judicial
Review of Risk Science in the U.S. and Europe: The Case of
Antibiotics in Animal Feed." Also in December, at the
Resources for the Future conference in Washington D.C., Wiener
presented "International Experience with Competing Regulatory
Approaches," and was a discussant in a session on "Leaded
Gasoline."
In November, Wiener co-organized the Second Annual Duke Environmental
Leadership Forum, "Dealing with Disasters: Prediction,
Prevention and Response," held at Duke University, and
was conference co-organizer for "The Malaria-DDT Dilemma:
Science, Policy and Law," also at Duke University. |
