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Scope | Faculty & Staff Notes

In Print | Recent Publications by Nicholas School faculty or staff

Paul A. Baker, professor of geochemistry

  • “Hydrologic Variation During the Last 170,000 Years in the South American Tropics,” Quaternary Research, 2004 (coauthor w/ G. Dwyer et al) •
  • “Vegetation and Climate Change on the Bolivian Altiplano between 108,000 and 18,000 Years Ago,” Quaternary Research, 2004 (coauthor)

Richard T. Barber, Harvey W. Smith Professor of Biological Oceanography, and chair, Division of Coastal Systems Science and Policy

  • “Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in Highand Low-Si Water,” Science, 2004 (coauthor w/ V.P. Lance, A.K. Hilting, M.R. Hiscock, et al) •
  • “The Heterotrophic Bacterial Response During the Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (SOFeX),” Limnology Oceanography, 2004 (coauthor)

Alan E. Boudreau, professor of geology and director of graduate studies, Earth and Ocean Sciences

  • “Halogen Variations in the Paleoproterozoic Layered Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusions of the East Kimberly, Western Australia: Implications for Platinum-Group Element Mineralization,” Economic Geology, 2004 (lead author)
  • “The Lower Zone-Critical Zone Transition of the Bushveld Complex: A Quantitative Textural Study,” Journal of Petrology, 2004 (coauthor w/ S. Boorman PhD ’04 et al)

James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology

  • “Why Environmental Scientists are Becoming Bayesians,” Ecology Letters, 2005 •
  • “Fecundity of Trees and the Colonization- Competition Hypothesis,” Ecological Monographs, 2004 (lead author w/ S. LaDeau and I. Ibanez)

Larry CrowderLarry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology

  • “The Impact of United States Recreational Fisheries on Marine Fish Populations,” Science, 2004 (coauthor w/ W.F. Figueira et al)

Thomas CrowleyThomas Crowley, Nicholas Professor of Earth Systems Science

  • “Solar Irradiance Forcing of Centennial Climate Variability: Linear and Nonlinear Responses in a Coupled Model,” Climate Dynamics, 2004 (coauthor)

Karen Lind Eckert, assistant research scientist, and director of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST)

  • Sea Turtles: An Ecological Guide, Mutual Publishing, 2004 (coauthor)

Scott A. Eckert, assistant research scientist

  • “Photopic Spectral Sensitivity of Green and Loggerhead Sea Turtles,” Copeia, 2004 (coauthor)
  • Book Review: The Biology of Sea Turtles, Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004

Nicholas Hayman, research associate, Earth and Ocean Sciences

  • “Magnetic and Clast Fabrics as Measurements of Grain-Scale Processes within the Death Valley Shallow Crustal Detachment Faults,” Journal of Geophysical Research, 2004

Gabriele Hegerl, associate research professor, Earth and Ocean Sciences

  • “Detectability of Anthropogenic Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Extremes,” Journal of Climate, 2004 (lead author)

Robert B. Jackson, professor of environmental sciences and biology

  • “Curbing the U.S. Carbon Deficit,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (Perspective), 2004 (lead author w/ W.H. Schlesinger)
  • “The Uplift of Soil Nutrients by Plants: Biogeochemical Consequences Across Scales,” Ecology, 2004 (coauthor)
  • “Adaptive Variation in the Vulnerability of Woody Plants to Xylem Cavitation,” Ecology, 2004 (coauthor)

Jordi Julia, research scientist, Earth and Ocean Sciences

  • “Evaluation of Deep Sediment Velocity Structure in the New Madrid Seismic Zone,” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2004 (lead author)

Jeffrey A. Karson, professor of geology

  • “East African Rift System (EARS) Plume Structure: Insights from Quaternary Mafic Lavas of Turkana, Kenya,” Journal of Petrology, 2004 (coauthor)
  • “Side-Scan Processing and Interpretation Along the Northern Wall of the Hess Deep Rift: Texture Analysis and Geologic Ground-Truth,” Journal of Geophysical Research, 2004 (coauthor)
  • “Mid-Ocean Ridge Fault Zones Preserved on Macquarie Island: Faulting, Hydrothermal Processes and Magmatism in an Oblique-Spreading Environment,” Geology, 2004 (coauthor)
  • “Paleomagnetic Constraints on Deformation Models for Oceanic Crust Exposed at the Hess Deep Rift: Implications for Axial Processes at the East Pacific Rise,” Journal of Geophysical Research, 2004 (coauthor)

Gabriel KatulGabriel G. Katul, professor of hydrology and environmental fluid mechanics

  • “One- and Two-Equation Models for Canopy Turbulence,” Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2004 (lead author)
  • “Human Effects on Long-Distance Wind Dispersal and Colonization by Grassland Plants,” Ecology, 2004 (coauthor)
  • “Determinants of Long-Distance Seed Dispersal by Wind in Grasslands,” Ecology, 2004 (coauthor)
  • “Impact of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on Forest Floor Respiration in a Temperate Pine Forest,” Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2004 (coauthor w/ M. Suwa MEM ’01, R. Oren, J. Pippen et al)

M. Susan Lozier, Truman and Nellie Semans Professor of Physical Oceanography

  • “Estimating the Predictability of an Oceanic Time Series Using Linear and Nonlinear Methods,” Journal of Geophysical Research, 2004 (coauthor)

Lynn A. Maguire, associate professor of the practice of environmental management

  • “What Can Decision Analysis Do for Invasive Species Management? Risk Analysis, 2004

Peter E. Malin, professor of seismology and of civil and environmental engineering

  • “The SAFOD Pilot Hole Seismic Array. 1. Wave Propogation Effects as a Function of Depth and Source Direction,” Geophysical Research Letters, 2004 (coauthor w/ J. A. Chavarria and E. Shalev)
  • “Non- Double-Couple Microearthquakes at Long Valley Calder Provide Evidence for Hydraulic Fracturing,” Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2004 (coauthor w/ E. Shalev et al)
  • “Determining SAFOD Area Microearthquake Locations Solely with Pilot Hole Seismic Array Data,” Geophysical Research Letters, 2004 (coauthor w/ A. Chavarria et al)

Marie Lynn Miranda, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice in Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Environmental Management

  • “GIS Modeling of Air Toxic Releases from TRI-Reporting and Non-TRIReporting Facilities: Impacts for Environmental Justice,” Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004 (coauthor w/ D. Dolinoy T ’98)

Ram Oren, professor of ecology

  • “Temporal Variability in 13C of Respired CO2 in Pine and a Hardwood Forest Subject to Similar Climatic Conditions,” Ecosystem Ecology, 2005 (coauthor w/ A.C. Oishi, and G. Katul)

Lincoln F. Pratson, associate professor of sedimentary geology

  • “Modeling Continental Shelf Formation in the Adriatic Sea and Elsewhere,” Oceanography, 2004 (lead author)

James F. Reynolds, professor and director of the National Phytotron

  • “Modifying the ‘Pulse-Reserve’ Paradigm for Deserts of North America: Precipitation Pulses, Soil Water, and Plant Responses,” Oecologia, 2004 (lead author)

Curtis J. Richardson, professor of resource ecology, and director, Duke University Wetland Center

  • “Hydrologic Gradients and Topsoil Additions Affect Soil Properties of Virginia Created Wetlands,” Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2004 (coauthor w/ G.L. Bruland Ph.D. ’04)

Daniel D. Richter Jr., professor of soils and forest ecology

  • “What Regulates Soil CO2 Concentrations? A Modeling Approach to CO2 Diffusion in Deep Soil Profiles,” Environmental Engineering Science, 2005 (coauthor)
  • “Elemental Translocation and Loss from Three Highly Weathered Soil-Bedrock Profiles in the Southeastern United States, Geoderma, 2005 (coauthor)
  • “Temporal Changes in the Yadkin River Flow Versus Suspended Sediment Concentration Relationship,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2004 (coauthor)
  • “Soil Acidification Induced by Elevated Atmospheric CO2,” Global Change Biology, 2004 (coauthor)

Dan RittschofDan Rittschof, associate professor of zoology

  • “Responses of Mud Snails from Low and High Imposex Sites to Sex Pheromones,” Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2004 (coauthor)
  • “Crustacean Peptide and Peptide-like Pheromones and Kairomones,” Peptides, 2004 (lead author w/ J. H. Cohen)

William H. Schlesinger, James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry and Dean, Nicholas School

  • “Better Living through Biogeochemistry,” Ecology, 2004

Eylon Shalev, research scientist, Earth and Ocean Sciences

  • “Prototype PBO Instrumentation of CALIPSO Project Captures World- Record Lava Dome Collapse on Montserrat Volcano,” EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Research Letters, 2004 (coauthor w/ P. Malin et al)
  • “Three-Dimensional Tomographic Analysis of the Loma Prieta Region,” In Ray E. Wells, editor The Loma Prieta, California Earthquake of October 17, 1989: Geologic Setting and Crustal Structure, USGS Professional Paper, 2004 (lead author)

Martin SmithMartin D. Smith, assistant professor of environmental economics

  • “Marine Reserves with Endogenous Ports: Empirical Bioeconomics of the California Sea Urchin Fishery,” Marine Resource Economics, 2004 (lead author)
  • “Limited Entry Licensing: Insights from a Duration Model,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004

Dean L. Urban, associate professor of landscape ecology

  • “Forest Edges and Tree Growth Rates in the North Carolina Piedmont,” Ecology, 2004 (coauthor w/ R. McDonald Ph.D. ’04)

Robert L. Wolpert, professor of statistics and decision sciences and professor of the environment

  • “Reconstructing Plant Root Area and Water Uptake Profiles,” Ecology, 2004 (coauthor w/ J.F. Reynolds, et al)
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