Scope | Faculty and Staff Notes

Grants of $100,000 or more awarded to faculty in the past six months

James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Environment, U.S. Department of Energy, $2,185,451, “Effects of Warming on Tree Species’ Recruitment in Deciduous Forests of the Eastern United States.”

Lisa M. Campbell, Rachel Carson Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy, National Science Foundation (NSF), $223,476, “Citizen Science and Sea Turtle Conservation: Critical and Pragmatic Perspectives.”

Bruce H. Corliss, professor of earth and ocean sciences, NSF, $266,420, “OCE–Ship Operations”; NSF, $653,460, “OCE–Ship Operations.”

Larry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology, Oak Foundation, $106,107, “Duke Global Fellows in Marine Conservation and Graduate Student Support.”

Patrick N. Halpin, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Geospatial Ecology, NSF, $2,500,000, “Partnerships for Developing the Indo-Malay-Philippine Marine Biodiversity Hotspot into a Research and Education Hotspot: Connectivity, Phylogeography, and Evolutionary History”; NSF, $1,476,600, “Developing the Next Generation Marine Mammal Information Center for Integrated Ocean Observing: OBIS-SEAMAP 2.0” (w/A. Read); NSF, $1,361,566, “Collaborative Research: Antarctic Humpback Whales–Fine Scale Foraging Behavior, Trophic Dynamics and Predator-prey Ecology”; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, $983,644, “Development of the Census of Marine Life Mapping & Visualization Coordination Team”; National Space and Aeronautics Administration (NASA), $936,243, “Integrating Ocean Observing Data to Enhance Protected Species Spatial Decision Support Systems; Office of Naval Research, $173,024, “Prey Fields and Habitat of Deep Divers: 3D Characterization and Modeling of Beaked and Sperm Whale Foraging Areas in the Tongue of the Ocean.”

Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change and professor of biology, U.S. Department of Energy, $1,438,000, “Southeastern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research.”

Ram Oren, professor of ecology, chair, Division of Environmental Science and Policy, U.S. Department of Energy, $1,559.016, “Duke Forest FACE— Forest–Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS-I).”

Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, National Park Service, $114,701, “Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Project.”

Timothy H. Profeta, director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Senior Associate Dean, Nicholas School, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, $235,741, “Creating a Pathway to Ecosystem- Based Management and other Commission Recommendations in the Legislative Process.”

Kenneth H. Reckhow, professor of water resources, National Institutes of Health, $128,349, “Using Bayesian Networks & Satellite Imagery to Implement Transparent Decision-making and Adaptive Management.” Daniel D. Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology, NSF, $275,990, “Collaborative Research: New Analyses of Below-ground Carbon Accretion in Secondary Forests.”

Cindy L. Van Dover, professor of marine biology, director, Duke University Marine Laboratory and chair, Division of Marine Science and Conservation, NSF, $284,962, “Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach–Marine Ecosystems.”

—Compiled by Donna Sell, Nicholas School communications assistant