Nicholas School Front Page News http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ Front Page News from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University en-us April 29, 2008 - Policy And Geography Shape Tropical Parks’ Success In Stemming Deforestation, New Paper Finds http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-pimmstudents.html learn more April 28, 2008 - Nine Nicholas School Students Receive Funding For International Research Travel http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-sidgawards.html learn more April 25, 2008 - Green Pastures http://gristmill.grist.org/print/2008/4/21/154539/284?show_comments=no Read the Grist Magazine report April 24, 2008 - Following Dan Rittschof in Search of Snails http://news.duke.edu/2008/04/rittschof._print.ht learn more April 24, 2008 - The Corn Identity http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/4/24/74716/4985 Read the blog at Grist.org April 22, 2008 - Comic Relief: Nationally Syndicated Cartoonist Jim Toomey (Del-Mem ’08) Promotes Shark Conservation http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-toomey.html learn more April 22, 2008 - New Book By Nicholas School’s Curt Richardson Synthesizes 14 Years Of Research In Florida’s Everglades http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-curtbook.html learn more April 18, 2008 - CO2: They should bottle that stuff http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1731383_1731989,00.html learn more April 17, 2008 - CO2: Road Map to Good Health http://tinyurl.com/48oh38 learn more April 16, 2008 - Tapping the Wind and Sun to Save Water http://sustainablog.org/2008/04/16/tapping-the-wind-and-sun-to-save-water/ Read the blog at GreenOptions.org April 16, 2008 - Clinton and Obama on the Environment http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/demtalk/ learn more April 14, 2008 - Nicholas School Appoints Associate Dean for International Programs http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-prasad.html learn more April 10, 2008 - Ocean Conservationist Wallace J. Nichols to Speak at Duke on April 22 http://news.duke.edu/2008/04/earth%20day%20speech.html learn more April 8, 2008 - 2008 Oosting Memorial Lecture and Student Symposium http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-oostinglecture.html learn more April 8, 2008 - Studying the Origins of Life on Earth http://www.lockheedmartin.com/how/ learn more April 1, 2008 - Spring 2008 Dukenvironment is Online http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/dukenvironment/ learn more March 31, 2008 - David Orr, Trailblazing Expert on Environmental Literary and Design, to Speak at 2008 Nicholas School Recognition Ceremony http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-orr.html learn more March 28, 2008 - Come Visit and Play with Us http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/programs/professional/admittedvisit.html learn more March 24, 2008 - Seven Nicholas School Students Named 2008-09 Doris Duke Conservation Fellows http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dorisduke.html learn more March 24, 2008 - New thinking needed to deal with droughts https://fds.duke.edu/db/Nicholas/faculty/reckhow/news.html/2457 learn more March 20, 2008 - Gift to Create New Molecular Biology Chair at Duke Marine http://news.duke.edu/2008/03/marine_gift.html learn more March 19, 2008 - Science at Sea http://research.duke.edu/creature_discomforts/ learn more March 19, 2008 - How Duke is Going Green http://www.hr.duke.edu/primetime/ learn more March 14, 2008 - Duke to Offer New Undergraduate Certificate Program in Energy and the Environment http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-newcert.html learn more March 13, 2008 - News Tip: EPA Ozone Standards Should Be Based on Science, Not Economics, Duke Expert Says http://news.duke.edu/2008/03/ozonetip.html learn more February 29, 2008 - Trustees Approve New PhD Program in Marine Science http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-dumlphd.html learn more February 27, 2008 - Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/02/cedardry.html learn more February 20, 2008 - Students Receive Awards for Outstanding Papers at 2007 AGU Meeting http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-agu.html learn more February 18, 2008 - Stanback’s Gift Supports the Investigation of a Link Between Cancer and Environment http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-stanbackgift.html learn more February 18, 2008 - Five Questions with Conservation Biologist Stuart Pimm http://research.duke.edu/five-questions-with-conservation-biologist-stuart-pimm/ learn more February 13, 2008 - Watch Albatrosses Dance http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/hawaii/video/ learn more February 6, 2008 - Nicholas School Faculty Take Part in AAAS Meeting http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-aaas2008.html learn more February 5, 2008 - Nicholas School’s Rob Jackson Named Fellow of American Geophysical Union http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-rob.html learn more January 29, 2008 - Applying Lessons from Evolution to Security http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/01/darwinsecurity.html learn more January 29, 2008 - Duke Deans To Discuss 'What Would You Do With $100 Million?" http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-100million.html learn more January 28, 2008 - Irreconcilable Differences: Fine-Root Life Spans and Soil Carbon Persistence http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-ramscience.html learn more January 28, 2008 - Global Soils at Risk http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/01/soilsave.html learn more January 16, 2008 - New Online Duke Research Site http://research.duke.edu/ learn more January 16, 2008 - Nicholas School Names New Associate Dean for External Affairs http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-chandra.html learn more January 16, 2008 - Pimm Cited in Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503428.html learn more January 16, 2008 - Portal to Papahanaumokuakea http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/hawaii/ learn more January 9, 2008 - More than 400 Turn Out for Town Hall Meeting on Drought http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/drought/ learn more January 4, 2008 - New Annual Award Created to Recognize the Outstanding Graduate Student Manuscript http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-phdaward.html learn more January 4, 2008 - Global Soil Change Motivates Workshop on Earth’s Critical Zone http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-soils.html learn more January 4, 2008 - North Atlantic Warming Tied to Natural Variability http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/01/naochanges.html learn more December 14, 2007 - Will the water run out? http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-watertownhall.html December 14, 2007 - Durham Water Forum http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/durhamwaterforum.pdf December 4, 2007 - Phily Inquirer cites Chameides http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20071204_A_mind-frying_debate.html November 30, 2007 - Duke Creates New Post to Coordinate Student Environmental Initiatives http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-clark.html read the story November 28, 2007 - MP Symposium Dec. 3 http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/dec07mpsymp.pdf November 26, 2007 - Student Visitation, January 2008 http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/programs/professional/prosday.html November 15, 2007 - Flying Blind: Fewer Satellites Monitor Environmental Hotspots, Duke Researchers Find http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-flyingblind.html read the story November 15, 2007 - Registration opens for Aquatic Animal Models of Human Disease Conference http://www.cancer.duke.edu/modules/aquatics55/ register or learn more November 14, 2007 - Terborgh in NY Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20819 November 12, 2007 - Join us on the front line of environmental progress http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/notebook/ read the latest Nicholas Notebook stories from the front line November 8, 2007 - Duke Establishes New Center for Engineering, Energy and the Environment http://news.duke.edu/2007/11/gendell.html read the story November 6, 2007 - Digging at the Intersection of Environment and Health http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/dukenvironment/ view the lastest issue of Dukenvironment October 30, 2007 - Deborah Rigling Gallagher Appointed Associate Faculty Director Of Duke Corporate Sustainability Initiative http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-debcsi.html Nicholas School Dean William L. Chameides has appointed Deborah Rigling Gallagher as associate faculty director of the Duke Corporate Sustainability Initiative (CSI). October 26, 2007 - Integrating environmental flows into water management and policy http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/nicholastalks/opperman.html A lecture by Jeff Opperman is the latest Nicholas Talk October 26, 2007 - Urban Nature Writer Jenny Price To Speak At Duke On Nov. 12 http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-price.html Writer Jenny Price, whose critically acclaimed essays on urban environmentalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Audubon, will discuss “Remaking American Environmentalism: On the Banks of the L.A. River,” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, at Duke University. October 25, 2007 - Bruce Corliss and Larry Crowder Named AAAS Fellows http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-aaas.html Bruce H. Corliss, professor of earth and ocean sciences, and Larry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). October 24, 2007 - Everglades Phosphorus Limits on Right Track, But More is Needed http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/10/everglades.html State and federal standards for phosphorus releases into the Everglades seem sufficient to protect the huge wetland’s resident plants and animals from damage, but pollutant levels still reach double or triple safe levels near some of the Everglades’ outer edges.  October 23, 2007 - Examining the Economic Impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Bill http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/institute/knowledge-climate.html October 23, 2007 - Duke Among Green Campuses http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/greencampuses.pdf October 17, 2007 - Study Sheds Light on Small Fisheries’ Impacts on Turtle Declines http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-crowder.html A study of the accidental by-catch of Pacific loggerhead turtles by local fishing fleets in Baja California is shedding new light on the previously overlooked role small fisheries may play in the decline of endangered migratory marine animals worldwide.  October 17, 2007 - Isotopic Studies Identify Sources of Contamination in Middle Eastern Groundwater http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-vengosh.html Water is a scarce and often contentious commodity in the Middle East, especially where surface and groundwater systems extend across political borders between hostile neighbors. October 17, 2007 - Deep in the Sea, Imagining the Cradle of Life on Earth http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/vandovernyt.pdf Cindy Van Dover featured in the New York Times October 17, 2007 - Come Visit Us! http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/programs/professional/prosday.html October 12, 2007 - Duke Marine Lab’s “Green Wave” Joins In Big Sweep http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-bigsweep.html The Green Wave, a student-led sustainability movement at the Duke University Marine Lab, will clean up sections of downtown Beaufort and Radio Island as their contribution to the North Carolina Big Sweep Coastal Cleanup on October 13th. October 11, 2007 - Come Join Us for Earth Jam 2007 http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/earthjam Tues. Oct. 16, 11-3, Bryan Center (lower level) October 9, 2007 - President Brodhead Visits Nicholas School http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-brodhead.html President Richard H. Brodhead toured the Nicholas School and met with Dean William L. Chameides and three faculty members today. October 8, 2007 - Duke Forest Annual Gathering to be Held Oct. 18 http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-forestgathering.html The 2007 Duke Forest Annual Gathering will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at the New Hope Improvement Association Center in Chapel Hill. October 8, 2007 - Water Seminar Series http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/eos/about/water-seminars.php October 2, 2007 - New Student Blogs Give You Inside Information About the Nicholas School http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/blog Check out the Nicholas Insider October 2, 2007 - LA Times Quotes Pilkey https://fds.duke.edu/db/Nicholas/faculty/opilkey/news.html/2028 Coastal buyout talk roils lives in Mississippi. October 1, 2007 - Duke Environmental Leadership Program to Host Oct. 23 Forum on Durham's Committment to Sustainability http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-cokeseminar.html Read the News Story October 1, 2007 - Study Examines the Use of Human Resettlement in Tiger Conservation http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-krithi.html Read news story and paper and view slideshow October 1, 2007 - Plans for Nicholas Hall Receive Green Light from Duke Board of Trustees http://news.duke.edu/2007/09/trustees_0907.html Read news story September 28, 2007 - Multi-Level Governance and Management of Water Resources http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/nicholastalks/blomquist.html A lecture by Bill Blomquist is the latest Nicholas Talk September 27, 2007 - Duke Launches New Corporate Sustainability Initiative http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-csi.html Read news story September 27, 2007 - G8 Leadership is Crititcal to Curbing Energy-Related CO2 Emissions http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/institute/g8plus5.pdf Read the paper September 26, 2007 - Pete and Ginny Nicholas to be Honored at Founders' Day Convocation http://news.duke.edu/2007/09/founders.html Read the news release September 21, 2007 - New Study Documents Dams' Impact on California Salmon http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-salmon.html Read the news story September 20, 2007 - Climate Activity in Congress http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/print_article.asp?individual_SQL=9/20/2007@16724_Public_.htm September 5, 2007 - Chameides in Nature Magazine http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070903/full/nj7158-112a.html When he went to college, Bill Chameides was intent on becoming a lawyer. But he exchanged his legal dreams for science - first physics then atmospheric sciences - and became one of the environment's star witnesses.