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Sara Ashenburg, director
of the Duke Environmental Leadership program
at the Nicholas School, has received the Environmental Educators
of North Carolina (EENC) Outstanding Service award for 2003.
Ashenburg also has moved from the position of 2003 president
to past-president on the board. For the same organization,
Deborah Wojcik Hall, program coordinator
for the Duke Environmental Leadership program, has moved from
president-elect to president for 2004.
James S. Clark,
H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology, is the recipient of the
University of Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources
and Conservation 2004 Distinguished Alumnus award.
Clark also will serve as director of the Summer
Institute this June, an NSF funded two-week, graduate/ post-graduate
level ‘summer school’ that will introduce ecologists and earth
scientists to modern statistical computation techniques. The
institute will convene at the Center on Global
Change in the Nicholas School and provide day-long presentations
and hands-on training with computation techniques by leading
statisticians and ecologists.
Karen Lind
Eckert, assistant research scientist located
at the Duke Marine Laboratory in
Beaufort, N.C., was honored in September at the 49th annual
ChevronTexaco Conservation Awards ceremony in Calgary, Canada,
with an International Environmental Award for Sea Turtle Protection
for her direction and leadership of the Wider Caribbean Sea
Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST) program. Eckert was
one of six winners. The ChevronTexaco awards have honored
over 1,000 volunteers, professionals and organizations for
their practical and creative solutions to environmental challenges.
Recipients of the award receive a $10,000 prize.
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Kenneth H.
Reckhow, professor of water resources, was elected
a member of the External Peer Review Committee for EAWAG (Swiss
Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology)
last October. EAWAG is a national research center for water
pollution control working to ensure that concepts and technologies
pertaining to the use of natural waters are continuously improved.
Ecological, economical and social water interests are brought
into line.
The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) has awarded Duke Law
Professor Jonathan
Wiener the highly prestigious 2003 Chauncey Starr
Award, which each year honors the individual aged 40 or under
who has made the most exceptional contributions to the field
of risk analysis.
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