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A. Baker, professor of geochemistry, along with
graduate student Ashley Ballantyne et al, were the invited
presenters of “Reconstructing Late Quaternary Precipitation
in the Tropical Andes,” at the Past Global Changes (PAGES)
Human Impact on Lake Ecosystems (LIMPACS) workshop on Salinity,
Climate, and Salinisation, held in Mildura, Australia, in
September.
 Karen
L. Eckert, assistant research scientist at the
Duke Marine Lab, gave an invited
presentation, “WIDECAST: Networking for a Sustainable Future
at a Caribbean Regional Scale,” for the 38th Annual General
Meeting and Conference of the Caribbean Conservation Association
at Dominica, West Indies, in December.
Scott A. Eckert,
assistant research scientist at the Duke
Marine Lab, was an invited expert at the November meeting
of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Atlantic Leatherback
Expert Working Group. The weeklong meeting, held in Miami,
Fla., was organized to assess the current status of leatherback
sea turtle populations in the Atlantic Ocean.
Gabriele Hegerl,
associate research professor in the Division of Earth and
Ocean Sciences, gave the invited presentation “Detection of
Anthropogenic Climate Change” in October for the Department
of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Jeffrey A.
Karson, professor of geology, presented “Outward-Dipping
Normal Faults in Extensional Settings: Stretching, Subsidence
and Creation of Accommodation Space,” at the Symposium in
Honor of C. Kent Brooks, at Copenhagen, Denmark, in June.
In November, for the Conference to Celebrate the 75th Birthday
of Kevin Burke of the University of Houston, Karson presented
“The Atlantis Massif: An Ultramafic Oceanic Core Complex,
Plate Tectonics,
And, for a fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union
(AGU) held in Northern Iceland, he presented “Upper Crustal
Deformation in Onshore Exposures of the Tjörnes Fracture Zone.”
Lee Hill Snowdon Professor Emily
M. Klein presented “A Small Ocean Rift Leads
to a New View of the Galapagos Micro Plate: the Incipient
Rift at 2 Degrees North, East of the East Pacific Rise,” at
the fall meeting of the AGU in December, in San Francisco,
Calif.
M. Susan Lozier,
Truman and Nellie Semans Professor of Physical Oceanography,
presented “The Impact of Sea Surface Salinity: North Atlantic
Issues,” at the 2004 Satellite Direct Readout Conference:
A Decade in Transition in Miami, Fla., in December.
In September, Lynn
A. Maguire, associate professor of the practice
of environmental management, presented “Effective Negotiation
and Collaboration for Environmental Advocates” with Dr. John
Stephens, Institute of Government, UNCChapel Hill, at a workshop
on conflict resolution for Students for Environmental Action
at University of North Carolina.
In October, Maguire gave the invited lecture “Public Participation
in Fire Management Decisions,” to The Nature Conservancy’s
fire management course for state/federal land management agencies
at Black Mountain, N.C.
Marie Lynn
Miranda, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice
in Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Environmental Management,
made two presentations in November at the 132nd Annual Meeting
of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C.
The first, “Modeling Risk Factors for Childhood Respiratory
Disease in the Physical and Home Environment,” she copresented
with Duke colleagues Wayne R. Thomann, Maya A. Overstreet
and Brack W. Hale. The other presentation, “Using Spatial
Models to Support Public Health Research,” was co-presented
with Alan Gelfand.
In October, Miranda presented “Using Spatial Mapping to Address
to the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University.
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Brad Murray, assistant professor of geomorphology
and coastal processes in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
presented “Extending a 1-Line Modeling Approach to Explore
Emergent Coastline Behaviors,” for the 29th International
Conference on Coastal Engineering at Lisbon, Spain, in September.
Michael K.
Orbach, professor of the practice of marine affairs
and policy and director, Duke Marine Lab, was a keynote speaker
at the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation’s National Congress
on Building Capacity for Coastal Solutions, in Washington,
D.C. His December talk was entitled “Mobilizing and Empowering
Communities.”
Lincoln F.
Pratson, associate professor of sedimentary geology,
presented “Experiments on the Threshold Behavior of Turbidity
Currents and its Potential Impact in Regulating the Slope
of Deltas and the Continental Slope” for the International
Geologic Conference at Florence, Italy, in August.
 Kenneth
H. Reckhow, professor of water resources, and
chair, Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy, made
two presentations to the Virginia Water Resources Symposium
at Virginia Tech in October. The first was the keynote talk
entitled “The Future of the EPA TMDL Program,” and the second
talk was entitled “A Predictive Approach for Nutrient Criteria
Development.”
Also in October, Reckhow organized and chaired a series of
workshops to prepare a white paper for the U.S. EPA on adaptive
implementation of TMDLs (total maximum daily load). The workshops
took place on the Duke campus and at University of California-Irvine,
and are supported by the U.S. EPA, Water Environment Research
Foundation, Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies,
Federal Water Quality Coalition, and a group of southern California
government agencies.
Daniel D.
Richter Jr., professor of soils and forest ecology,
gave the invited presentation “Replicating Rothamsted: Long-Term
Soil Experiments for Resolving Global Soil Change,” in March
at the International Union of Soil Sciences Conference on
Global Soil Change: Time Scales and Rates of Pedogenic Process,
in Mexico City, Mexico.
In November, William
H. Schlesinger, James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry
and dean of the Nicholas School, testified before the Environmental
Review Commission of the General Assembly of North Carolina
in hearings on greenhouse gas emissions and global climate
change.
Schlesinger also participated as a plenary panelist of “Meeting
the Climate-Energy Challenge” held in October during U.S.
Science & Higher Education Week at the Norwegian Embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Martin D. Smith,
assistant professor of environmental economics, along with
Larry B. Crowder,
Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology, gave the invited
presentation “Valuing Ecosystem Services with Fishery Rents:
A Lumped-Parameter Approach to Hypoxia in the Neuse River
Estuary” for Triangle Environmental and Resource Economics
Seminar Series at RTI International (RTP, N.C.) in October.
In August, Smith presented “Do Marine Protected Areas Enhance
Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico?” for the Camp Resources XII
conference at Wilmington, N.C.
Molly Tamarkin, assistant dean for information
technology, has been selected as one of five Duke representatives
to participate in the 2004-2005 “Developing IT Leaders” program,
along with representatives from Stanford, the University of
Chicago, and Penn State. The seven-month program involves
visits to all participating schools, group projects and individual
program development.
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