In Print - Spring 2009
Recent publications by Nicholas School faculty and staff
Lori S. Bennear, assistant professor of environmental economics and policy
- “What Do We Really Know: The Effect of Reporting Thresholds on Inference Using Environmental Right-to-Know Data,” Regulation and Governance, 2008 (author)
- “The Impacts of the ‘Right to Know’”: Information Disclosure and the Violation of Drinking Water Standards,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2008 (lead author)
Larry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology
- “Essential Ecological Insights for Marine Ecosystem-based Management,” Marine Policy, 2008 (lead author)
- “The Impacts of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems and the Transition to Ecosystem-based Management,” Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2008 (lead author w/E.L Hazen, R, Bjorkland et al.)
- “Managing for Cumulative Impacts in Ecosystem-based Management through Ocean Zoning,” Ocean and Coastal Management, 2008 (coauthor)
- “Impacts of Fisheries Bycatch on Loggerhead Turtles Worldwide Inferred from Reproductive Value Analyses,” Journal of Applied Ecology, 2008 (coauthor w/S. Kelez et al.)
Deborah Rigling Gallagher, assistant professor of the practice of resource and economic policy
- “Promoting Community Involvement at Brownfields Sites in Socio-economically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2008 (w/ S. Jackson)
K. David Hyrenbach, adjunct assistant professor
- “Applying Spatially Explicit Measures for Albatross Conservation,” In: De Roi, T., Jones, M., Fitter, J. eds. Albatross: their World, their Ways, Firefly Books, Buffalo, N.Y., 2008 (author)
Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change and professor of biology
- “Protecting Climate with Forests,” Environmental Research Letters, November 2008 (lead author)
- "The Global Stoichiometry of Litter Nitrogen Mineralization,” Science, 2008 (coauthor w/A. Porporato et al.)
- “Patterns and Controls of Ecosystem Salinization with Grassland Afforestation Across a Rainfall Gradient,” Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2008 (coauthor)
- “Hydraulic Traits are Influenced by Phylogenetic History in the Drought-resistant and Invasive Genus Juniperus (Cupressaceae),” American Journal of Botany, 2008 (coauthor)
Peter G. McCornick, director of water policy, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
- “Seeking Calm Water: Exploring Policy Options for India’s Water Future,” Natural Resources Forum, November 2008, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing (coauthor)
Marie Lynn Miranda, associate professor of environmental sciences and policy
- “Environmental Justice Implications of Reduced Reporting Requirements of the Toxics Release Inventory Burden Reduction Rule,” Environmental Science and Technology, 2008 (lead author w/M. Keating and S. Edwards)
- “Spatial Analysis of the Etiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis among 1991 Gulf War Veterans,” NeuroToxicology, 2008 (lead author w/ M. A. Overstreet Galeano, E. Tassone et al.)
- “A Framework for Widespread Replication of a Highly Spatially Resolved Childhood Lead Exposure Risk Model,” Environmental Health Perspectives, December 2008 (coauthor w/ D. Kim, M.A. Overstreet Galeano, A. Hull)
- "Geographical Segregation and Interleukin-6, a Marker of Chronic Inflammation in Older Adults,” Biomarkers in Medicine, 2008 (coauthor)
Brian C. Murray, research professor, Nicholas School, and director for economic analysis, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
- “Public Land, Timber Harvests, and Climate Mitigation: Quantifying Carbon Sequestration Potential on U.S. Public Timberlands,” Forest Ecology and Management, 2008 (coauthor)
- “Permanence Discounting for Land-based Carbon Sequestration,” Ecological Economics, 2008 (coauthor)
- “Improved Forest Management,” In: Voluntary Carbon Standard: Agriculture, Forestry, and Land Use Guidance Document, (copyright of the Voluntary Carbon Standard) (VCS) Association, 2008 (coauthor)
Lydia Olander, senior associate director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
- “Reference Scenarios for Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Support of REDD: A Review of Data and Methods,” Environmental Research Letters, 2008 (lead author w/J.J. Swenson, B C. Murray et al.)
Michael K. Orbach, Professor of the Practice of Marine Affairs and Policy
- “The Cultural Context of Ocean Fertilization,” Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2008 (author)
Kenneth H. Reckhow, professor of water resources
- “The MANAGE Database: Nutrient Load and Site Characteristic Updates and Runoff Concentration Data,” Journal of Environmental Quality, 2008 (coauthor w/S.S. Qian et al.)
Curtis J. Richardson, professor of resource ecology
- “Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Can the ‘Garden of Eden’ be Fully Restored?” National Wetlands Newsletter, 2008 (author)
- “Environmental and Anthropogenic Controls over Bacterial Communities in Wetland Soils,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 (coauthor w/W.H. Hartman et al.)
Daniel D. Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology
- “Rhizogenic Fe-C Redox Cycling: A Hypothetical Biogeochemical Mechanism that Drives Crustal Weathering in Upland Soils,” Biogeochemistry, 2008 (coauthor)
- “Four-decade Responses of Soil Trace Elements to an Aggrading Old-field Forest: B, Mn, Zn, Cu, and Fe,” Ecology, 2008 (coauthor w/J.W. Li, P. Heine et al.)
Raphael D. Sagarin, assistant research professor, Nicholas School, and associate director for ocean coastal policy, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
- “Return to Natural History,” Science, April 2008 (author), book review of Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire and the Lives of Sparrows by Christopher Norment.
Martin D. Smith, associate professor
- “Synergies Between Adjacent Beach-nourishing Communities in a Morpho-economic Coupled Coastline Model,” Coastal Management, 2008 (coauthor w/ J.M. Slott, and A.B. Murray)
Erika Weinthal, associate professor of environmental policy
- “Is an Exemption from U.S. Groundwater Regulations a Loophole or Noose?” Policy Sciences, 2008 (coauthor w/B. Daniels and B. Hudson)
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