Sentences with phrase «nicholas school»

A dedicated classroom teacher, Salzman was twice selected as Professor of the Year by students at Duke, where he held chairs in the Law School and the Nicholas School of the Environment.

«This will have significant consequences on conservation planning in eastern Africa and we need to be better prepared for these changes,» said study co-author Dr. Stuart L. Pimm, a Professor at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School for the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University

Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment will present the award to James this month at the Griffith Film Theater on the Duke University campus.

Students at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences choose from undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degrees in concentrations that include environmental studies and policy, earth and ocean sciences, and environmental law.

But, unfortunately, although the final rules might safeguard carbon stocks, they may fall short of their potential to protect biodiversity,» explains the author who organized the collaboration, Dr. Stuart L. Pimm from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean Air Act authority to promulgate carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: «Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»

«Our reconstruction supports a lot of variability in the past,» said research director Gabriele Hegerl of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

Ms. Morsch was a high school biology and chemistry teacher and later earned her master's degree in environmental management from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Professor William Schlesinger, dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, said that due in large part to global warming, the stage is now set for wildfires to rage out of control to an extent not seen before.

Funding came from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (#DGF1 1106401), and from Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering.

«While elevated atmospheric CO2 levels may offset some of the threats facing marshes from sea - level rise, another equally serious threat to marsh survival — sediment starvation — will remain,» said Katherine M. Ratliff, a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School, who was lead author of the study.

«Essentially, we found it's a self - rising mechanism marshes use to build themselves up,» said Marco Marani, professor of ecohydrology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering.

Academics: Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment offers a B.A. in Environmental Sciences and Policy, B.S. in Environmental Sciences, B.A. in Earth and Ocean Sciences, and a B.S. in Earth and Ocean Sciences.

She received a Master of Environmental Management degree in 2010 from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment with a focus on the intersection of science and policy.

Drew Shindell is a Professor of Climate Sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University.

««If that message gets out, then I think there would be less back and forth arguing about these short - term temperature trends because it doesn't really matter that much scientifically,» explained Patrick Brown, a doctoral student in climatology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.»

And a 2009 study led by Robert Jackson, who at the time was the Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, concluded that plowing up untilled land to grow more corn for ethanol fuel is «an inefficient and expensive greenhouse gas mitigation policy.»

Affiliation Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

The Green Grok, the blog of Bill Chameides, dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment

Please read the full post and explore other output from the Nicholas School blog (including this excellent summary of a recent meeting on shale gas extraction).

This excellent new Green Grok post is by Bill Chameides, the blogging dean of the Nicholas School for the Environment at Duke University.

First here's Bill Chameides, the blogging dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, who recently toured a wide swath of Pennsylvania gas country by helicopter with other Duke researchers focused on America's gas rush (slide show here): Read more...

Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences Duke University Durham, NC 27708, USA

First here's Bill Chameides, the blogging dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, who recently toured a wide swath of Pennsylvania gas country by helicopter with other Duke researchers focused on America's gas rush (slide show here):

Dyson's work has been supported by the Joan Mitchell Foundation; Nancy Graves Foundation; Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University; and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center.

Dyson has been awarded the Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, Visiting Artist grant to the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practices, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center Fellowship, and the FSP / Jerome Fellowship.

At Duke, Dr. Gray has affiliations with the Division of Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine, Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Nicholas School of the Environment.

David Foxall of St Nicholas School, who attended the October seminar held at the Internet Watch Foundation's head office in Cambridge, gave his views on the event, «A lot of food for thought that will no doubt help improve and develop e-safety at our school».

Affiliations Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

A conversation with Drew Day, research associate with the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and the Duke Global Health Institute, about a new study suggesting ground ozone levels may have serious consequences for heart health.

Affiliations Marine Turtle Assessment Program, NOAA Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Children's Environmental Health Initiative, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708, USA

In addition to Pattanayak, the team included researchers from Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, the Inter-American Development Bank in Brazil, the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economics in Nepal, North Carolina State University and the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment in Brazil.

The research team included scientists from Duke University School of Medicine, the Center for Population Health and Aging at Duke University, the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke and the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

«Water use and wastewater production are two of the chief environmental concerns voiced about hydraulic fracturing,» said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently changed the status of the giant panda from «endangered» to the less threatened «vulnerable,»» said Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Having a group of distantly related species, representing markedly different ecologies and biology, is as important, or more important, than just having more species in general,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson associate professor of marine conservation biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Our model, however, predicts that large quantities of H2 may also be forming within faster - spreading tectonic plates — regions that collectively underlie roughly half of the Mid-Ocean Ridge,» said Stacey L. Worman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, who led the study while she was a doctoral student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

«We're trying to make the best of the situation,» says Profeta, now director of the Nicholas School of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

This study was sponsored by funding from Fred and Alice Stanback, the Duke Cancer Institute, and the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

«This underscores that large, sustained changes in global temperature like those observed over the last century require drivers such as increased greenhouse gas concentrations,» said lead author Patrick Brown, a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Until now, research in many regions of the nation has shown that contamination from fracking has been fairly sporadic and inconsistent,» said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Pesticide use is leveling off in the U.S. but growing in much of the developing world,» said Emily S. Bernhardt, professor of biogeochemistry at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

According to Crawford - Brown and Ken Reckhow, a colleague at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, thinking about how a model might be used, and its overall utility, is a critical difference between a decision scientist and an environmental modeler.

«Most households are willing to pay more annually, even with the understanding that only hook - and - line fishing would be allowed within the expanded sanctuary and oil and gas activity would be restricted there,» said Stephanie F. Stefanski, a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the survey.