Duke Environmental Leadership Program
Faculty
Nicholas School faculty has a reputation for scholarly achievement, effective teaching and tackling some of our most important environmental and natural resource challenges. For example, Nicholas School faculty are helping to develop environmentally-friendly energy sources in Kenya, improve nuclear waste disposal in the United States, investigate new devices to exclude dolphins, porpoises and sea turtles from fishing nets, assist public utilities in assessing the non-market values obtained from environmental management, and measure the effects of increased carbon dioxide emissions on trees and soils.
The Nicholas School is home to more than 105 core and affiliated faculty members. DEL-MEM courses are taught primarily by faculty from the Nicholas School; and specialized courses are taught by appropriate instructors from within and outside the School. All primary advising of master’s projects is done by Nicholas School faculty.
The Core DEL Faculty Includes:
Norm Christensen
Professor of Ecology and Founding Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment
Deborah Gallagher
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy and Executive
Director of the Duke Environmental Leadership Program
Patrick Halpin
Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Geospatial Ecology
and Director of the Geospatial Ecology Program
Robert Healy
Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy Studies
David Hinton
Nicholas Professor of Environmental Quality
Randall Kramer
Professor of Resource and Environmental Economics
Lynn Maguire
Professor of the Practice of Environmental Decision Analysis and Director
of Professional Studies
Dean Urban
Professor of Landscape Ecology


