Professor of Landscape Ecology
Environmental Sciences & Policy
PhD Ecology, University of Tennessee, 1986
MA Wildlife Ecology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1981
BA Botany and Zoology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1978
Primary area of expertise:
ecology
Secondary areas of expertise: biodiversity,
conservation biology,
endangered/threatened species,
forest fires and fire ecology,
forest management and silviculture,
geospatial technologies,
global change ecology,
land use and sprawl,
landscape dynamics,
terrestrial ecosystems
Web Links:
Contact Urban at:
A320 LSRC
Box 90328
Durham, NC 27708
919-613-8076
fax: 919-684-8741
deanu@duke.edu