Scope | Faculty and Staff Notes

In Print | Recent publications by Nicholas School faculty or staff

James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology
• Models for Ecological Data, Princeton University Press, 2007 (author)
• Ecological Data Models with R, Princeton University Press, 2007 (author)
• “Resolving the Biodiversity Debate,” Ecology Letters, 2007 (lead author)
• “Tree Growth Inference and Prediction from Diameter Censuses and Ring Widths,” Ecological Applications, 2007 (lead author)
• “Exploiting Temporal Variability to Understand Tree Recruitment Response to Climate Change,” Ecological Monographs, 2007 (coauthor)

Richard T. Di Giulio, professor of environmental toxicology
• “Ecotoxicology,” In: Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, ed. C.D. Klaassen, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2008 (w/M.C. Newman)

Scott A. Eckert, research scientist
• “Hierarchical State-space Models of Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Movement in Relation to Turtle Size and Oceanographic Features in the Western Mediterranean Sea,” Ecological Applications, 2007 (lead author w/K.L. Eckert, P.N. Halpin et al.)

Patrick N. Halpin, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Geospatial Ecology
• “Geospatial Web Services Within a Scientific Workflow: Forecasting Marine Mammal Habitat in a Dynamic Environment,” Ecoinformatics, 2007 (coauthor w/ B. Best et al.)
• “Modeling Population Connectivity by Ocean Currents, a Graph-theoretic Approach for Marine Conservation,” Landscape Ecology, 2007 (coauthor w/E.A. Treml, D. Urban and L. Pratson et al.)
• “Validating Successional Theory from Space: a Case Study from the North Carolina Piedmont,” Journal of Vegetation Science/Applied Vegetation Science, 2007, (coauthor w/R.I. McDonald, and D. Urban)
• “High-resolution Raster Modeling of Coastal Flooding from Sea Level Rise: Effects of Horizontal Resolution and Connectivity,” International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2007 (coauthor w/B. Poulter)

Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change and professor of biology
• “New Directions in Microbial Ecology,” Ecology, 2007 (lead author)
• “Carbon and Water Tradeoffs in Conversions to Forests and Shrublands,” In: Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World, eds. J.G. Canadell, D.E. Pataki, L.F. Pitelka, Springer, 2007 (lead author)
• “Groundwater and Soil Chemical Changes Under Phreatophytic Tree Plantations,” Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 2007 (coauthor)

Prasad Kasibhatla, associate professor of environmental chemistry
• “Mortality from Ship Emissions: A Global Assessment,” Environmental Science & Technology, Dec. 15, 2007 (coauthor); Note: Featured on journal cover.

Gabriel Katul, professor of hydrology and micrometeorology
• “Eco-hydrological Controls on Summertime Convective Rainfall Triggers,” Global Change Biology, 2007 (coauthor w/J-Y. Juang PhD ’07, M.B. Siqueira, H.S. Kim, R. Oren et al.)
• “Separating the Effects of Albedo from Eco-physiological Changes on Surface Temperature Along a Successional Chronosequence in the Southeastern United States,” Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 (coauthor w/J-Y. Juang, M.B. Siqueira, K. Novick et al); Note: Editor’s choice in Science, Dec. 7, 2007.
• “Stochastic Dynamics of Plant-water Interactions,” Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2007 (lead author w/R. Oren et al.)

E. Conrad Lamon, research scientist
• “Recent Water Level Declines in the Lake Michigan–Huron System,” Environmental Science & Technology, 2007 (coauthor w/S.S. Qian et al.)

M. Susan Lozier, professor of physical oceanography, chair, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
• “The Spatial Pattern and Mechanisms of Heat Content Change in the North Atlantic,” Science Express, Jan. 3, 2008, (lead author w/S. Leadbetter, M. Reed et al.)

Joel N. Meyer, assistant professor of environmental toxicology
• “Decline of Nucleotide Excision Repair Capacity in Aging Caenorhabditis elegans,” Genome Biology, 2007 (lead author)

A. Brad Murray, associate professor of geomorphology and coastal practices
• “Two Paradigms in Landscape Dynamics: Self-similar Processes and Emergence,” In: Nonlinear Dynamics in Geophysics, eds. A.A. Tsonis, J.B. Elsner, Springer, 2007 (author)
• “Reducing Model Complexity for Explanation and Prediction,” Geomorphology, 2007 (author)
• “Process Signatures in Regional Patterns of Shoreline Change on Annual to Decadal Timescales,” Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 (coauthor)
• “Sensitivity Analysis of Pediment Development Through Numerical faculty & staff notes Simulation and Selected Geospatial Query,” Geomorphology, 2007 (coauthor)
• “Patterns in the Sand: From Forcing Templates to Self Organization,” Geomorphology, 2007 (coauthor)
• “Complexity (and Simplicity) in Landscapes,” Geomorphology, 2007 (lead author)
• “Process Signatures in Regional Patterns of Shoreline Change on Annual to Decadal Timescales,” Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 (coauthor)
• “A Coupled Geomorphic and Ecological Model of Tidal Marsh Evolution,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007 (coauthor)
• “Sorted Bedforms as Self-organized Patterns. Part 1: Model Development,” Journal of Geophysical Research—Earth Surface, 2007 (coauthor)

Brian C. Murray, research professor, Nicholas School, and director for economic analysis, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
• “Economic Consequences of Consideration of Permanence, Leakage and Additionality for Soil Carbon Sequestration Projects,” Climatic Change, 2007 (lead author)

Richard G. Newell, Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics
• “International Technology-oriented Agreements to Address Climate Change,” Energy Policy, 2008 (coauthor)
• “Asset Pricing in Created Markets,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007 (lead author)

Sari Palmroth, assistant research professor
• “Are Ecosystem Carbon Inputs and Outputs Coupled at Short Time Scales? A Case Study from Adjacent Pine and Hardwood Forests Using Impulse-response Analysis,” Plant, Cell and Environment, 2007 (coauthor w/A.C. Oishi, E. Ward, M.B. Siqueira, J-Y. Juang, K.A. Novick, G. Katul, R. Oren et al.); Note: Featured on journal cover.

Song S. Qian, associate research professor
• “Combining Model Results and Monitoring Data for Water Quality Assessment,” Environmental Science & Technology, 2007 (lead author w/K. Reckhow)
• “Ecological Applications of Multilevel Analysis of Variance,” Ecology, 2007 (lead author)

Curtis J. Richardson, professor of resource ecology
• “Estimating Ecological Thresholds for Phosphorus in the Everglades,” Environmental Science & Technology, Dec. 1, 2007 (lead author w/S.S. Qian et al.); Note: Featured on journal cover.

Raphael D. Sagarin, assistant research professor, Nicholas School, and associate director for ocean and coastal policy, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
• Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World, eds. R. Sagarin and T. Taylor, University of California Press, February 2008

Martin D. Smith, associate professor of environmental economics
• “An Empirical Approach to Ecosystem-based Fishery Management,” Ecological Economics, 2008 (co-lead author)