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In Print | Recent publications by Nicholas School faculty or staff

James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology
--“A Future for Models and Data in Ecology,” TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution, 2006 (lead author w/ A.E. Gelfand) -----“Elevated CO2 and Tree Fecundity: The Role of Tree Size, Interannual Variability, and Population Heterogeneity,” Global Change Biology, (coauthor w/ S.L. LaDeau)
--“Biomass and Toxicity Responses of Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) to Elevated Atmospheric CO2,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 (coauthor w/ J. E. Mohan, W. H. Schlesinger et al.)
--“Elements of Bayesian Inference,” J.S. Clark and A. Gelfand (eds), Hierarchical Models of the Environment, Oxford University Press, 2006 (coauthor w/ A. Gelfand et al.)
--“Synthesizing Ecological Experiments and Observational Data with Hierarchical Bayes,” J.S. Clark and A. Gelfand (eds), Hierarchical Models of the Environment. Oxford University Press, 2006 (coauthor w/ S.L. LaDeau)
--“Pollen Production by Pinus taeda L. (Pinaceae) Growing in Elevated Atmospheric CO2,” Functional Ecology, 2006 (coauthor w/ S. LaDeau)
--“Predicting Biodiversity Change: Outside the Climate Envelope, Beyond the Species-area Curve,” Ecology, 2006(coauthor w/ I. Ibanez, M.C. Dietze, K. Feeley, M. Hersh, S. LaDeau, A. McBride, M. Wolosin et al.)

Larry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology
--“Effects of Stocking-up Freshwater Food Webs,” TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution, 2006 (coauthor)

Deborah Rigling Gallagher, visiting assistant professor
--“The Professionalization of Sustainability,” Chapter 11, pages 272- 289 in Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic, Bryan Husted and Sanjay Sharma (eds.), Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2007 (author)

Nicholas W. Hayman, research associate
--“Shallow Crustal Fault Rocks from the Black Mountain Detachments, Death Valley, Calif.,” Journal of Structural Geology, 2006 (author)

Robert B. Jackson, professor of environmental sciences and biology
--“Predicting the Temperature Dependence of Microbial Respiration in Soil: A Continental-scale Analysis,” Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2006 (coauthor)
--“Functional Coordination Between Leaf Gas Exchange and Vulnerability to Xylem Cavitation in Temperate Forest Trees,” Plant, Cell and Environment, 2006 (coauthor)

Gabriel Katul, professor of hydrology and micrometeorology
--“The Relative Importance of Ejections and Sweeps to Momentum Transfer in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer,” Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2006 (lead author w/ D. Poggi et al.)
--“Separating the Effects of Climate and Vegetation on Evapotranspiration Along a Successional Chronosequence in the Southeastern U.S.,” Global Change Biology, 2006 (coauthor w/ P. Stoy, M.Siqueira, J.Y. Juang, H.R. McCarthy, A. Christopher Oishi, H.S. Kim, R. Oren et al.)

Randall A. Kramer, professor of resource and environmental economics
--“An Empirical Bayes Approach to Combining and Comparing Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life for Environmental Policy Analysis,” Environmental and Resource Economics, 2006 (coauthor)

Peter E. Malin, professor of seismology and civil and environmental engineering
--“Structure of the San Andreas Fault at SAFOD from P-wave Tomography and Fault-guided Wave Mapping,” Geophysical Research Letters, 2006 (lead author w/ E. Shalev, H. Balven, and C. Lewis-Kenedi)

Marie Lynn Miranda, associate research professor
--“Changes in Blood Lead Levels Associated With Use of Chloramines in Water Treatment Systems,” Environmental Health Perspectives, February 2007 (lead author w/ C.J. Paul, M.A. Overstreet Galeano et al.)
--“Incorporating a Built Environment Module into an Accelerated Second Degree Community Health Nursing Program,” Public Health Nursing, September/October 2006 (coauthor w/ J. Davis et al.)

A. Brad Murray, associate professor of geomorphology and coastal processes
--“Coastline Responses to Changing Storm Patterns,” Geophysical Research Letters, 2006 (coauthor w/ J.M. Slott, A.D. Ashton and T.J. Crowley)

Brian C. Murray, director for economic analysis, Nicholas Institute
--“Economic Consequences of Consideration of Permanence, Leakage and Additionality for Soil Carbon Sequestration Projects,” Climatic Change, January 2007 (lead author)
--“Methane and Nitrous Oxide Mitigation in Agriculture,” The Energy Journal, 2006 (coauthor) Special issue (eds: de la Chesnaye, F. and J. Weyant)

Jeffrey S. Pippen, research associate
--“The Turnover of Carbon Pools Contributing to Soil CO2 and Soil Respiration in a Temperate Forest Exposed to Elevated CO2 Concentration,” Global Change Biology, 2006 (coauthor w/ W.H. Schlesinger et al.)

Orrin H. Pilkey, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology
-- Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future, February 2007, Columbia University Press (coauthor)

Kenneth Reckhow, professor of water resources and chair, Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy
--“Exploring Ecological Patterns with Structural Equation Modeling and Bayesian Analysis,” Ecological Modeling, 2006 (coauthor w/ M.A. Kenney et al.)

Daniel D. Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology
--“Bioavailability of Slowly Cycling Soil Phosphorus: Major Restructuring of Soil P Fractions Over Four Decades in an Aggrading Forest,” Ecosystem Ecology, 2006 (lead author w/ J. Li et al.)
--“Succession-driven Changes in Soil Respiration Following Fire in Black Spruce Stands of Interior Alaska,” Biogeochemistry, 2006 (coauthor w/ K.P. O’Neill et al.)

Raphael D. Sagarin, associate director for ocean and coastal policy, Nicholas Institute
--“Moving Beyond Assumptions to Understand Abundance Distribution Across the Ranges of Species,” TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution, 2006 (lead author)

William H. Schlesinger, James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry
--“Carbon Dioxide Effects of Heterotrophic Dinitrogen Fixation in a Temperate Pine Forest,” Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2007 (coauthor w/K. Hofmockel PhD ’05)

Mario Siqueira, research associate
--“Multiscale Model Intercomparisons of CO2 and H2O Exchange Rates in a Maturing Southeastern U.S. Pine Forest,” Global Change Biology, 2006 (lead author w/ G. Katul, P. Stoy, J.Y. Juang, H.R. McCarthy, R. Oren et al.)

Martin D. Smith, assistant professor of environmental economics
--“Generating Value in Habitat-dependent Fisheries: The Importance of Fishery Management Institutions,” Land Economics, February 2007 (author)
--“Open Access in a Spatially Delineated Artisanal Fishery: The Case of Minahasa, Indonesia,” Environment and Development Economics, February 2007 (coauthor w/ R.A. Kramer et al.)

Cindy L. Van Dover, professor of marine biology, director, Duke University Marine Laboratory and chair, Division of Coastal Systems Science and Policy
--“Hydrothermal Vent Meiobenthos Associated with Mytilid Mussel Aggregations from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise,” Deep-Sea Research I, 2006 (coauthor)

Kyle S. Van Houtan, research associate
--“The Various Christian Ethics of Species Conservation,” Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Responsibility in a World in Flux, David M. Lodge and Christopher Hamlin (eds.), 2006 (coauthor w/ S. Pimm) University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind.

Jonathan B. Wiener, professor of law and professor of environmental policy
--“Better Regulation in Europe,” Current Legal Problems, 2006 (author)