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