Browsing Nicholas School of the Environment by Submit Date
Now showing items 21-40 of 1605
-
Stewarding Environmental Leadership
(2019-04-26)The Capstone captures the core competencies of an environmental consultancy incorporating the skills and tools learned at Duke University. The Capstone report reviews commonly used sustainability tools, reporting structures, ... -
Recycling Produced Water in the Permian Basin
(2019-04-26)The rapid increase of oil exploration through hydraulic fracturing in the Permian Basin in western Texas is associated with production of large volume of wastewater containing potentially hazard chemicals. The wastewater ... -
ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF USDA CIVIL RIGHTS SETTLEMENTS: PIGFORD IN ADVOCACY AND CONTEXT
(2019-04-26)In 1999, a class of African American farmers and landowners led by North Carolinian Timothy Pigford sued the United States Department of Agriculture under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, alleging discrimination in loan-making ... -
A long-term temporal analysis of heavy metal concentrations in seabird feathers with implications for overgeneralized trophic dynamics
(2019-04-26)Anthropogenic deposition and natural cycling of heavy metal can impact ecosystem function: They can accumulate in marine sediment layers and remain there for long periods of time. As these metals accumulate and move through ... -
Understanding Patterns and Impacts of Electricity Quality and Access in Northern India
(2019-04-26)Indians have suffered from rolling outages and blackouts even as millions of citizens have gained access to electricity in recent years, which has led to concerns about electricity quality and its impacts. We conducted an ... -
Effectively Communicating about Risks from Soil Contamination
(2019-04-26)The goal of this study was to provide recommendations for a social marketing campaign in order to educate North Carolina community gardeners about the implications and health effects associated with soil contamination, empowering ... -
Evaluating Current Knowledge and Future Directions of Visual Cues as Bycatch Reduction Technologies in Passive Net Fisheries
(2019-04-26)Fisheries bycatch is consistently identified as a leading cause of population decline for many species of sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals. Many of these species rely primarily, or in part, on visual cues to perceive ... -
Scoping an Impact Evaluation of the Phase II World Bank-Financed West Africa Regional Fisheries Program
(2019-04-26)Coastal West Africa has some of the richest fishing grounds in the world due to its climatic and ecological conditions, yet poverty in this region is severe and widespread despite its fishing asset. The fishery resources ... -
Assessment of Sea Turtle Rehabilitation in North Carolina
(2019-04-26)As is the case with all sea turtle species, the five species that occur within North Carolina waters are listed as either threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Due to their endangered/threatened ... -
Reforming the Land and Water Conservation Fund: An Outdoor Recreation Analysis
(2019-04-26)Outdoor recreation in the U.S. provides economic, social, and health benefits to participants. This study provides evidence for why the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) should be funded, now that it has been permanently ... -
Poison to Protein: The Case for Edible Cottonseed
(2019-04-26)The United States cotton production market generated 7 billion dollars in 2017, with cottonseed making up about 1 billion dollars of that amount. Although cottonseed accounts for nearly 14% of revenues earned by farmers, ... -
Bridging Hydrology, Ecology, and Reservoir Management to Address Environmental Flow Specifications from Dams in a Changing Climate
(2019-04-26)Water resource management has altered the natural flow regime of rivers around the globe. Buffers to environmental risk and uncertainty, dams balance competing demands for water storage and release for human needs. While ... -
Developing a Strategic Framework for Sustainability Investments in Real Estate
(2019-04-26)The Master’s project “Developing a Strategic Framework for Sustainability Investments in Real Estate” is a continuation of its predecessor project titled “Financially Viable Sustainability Solutions for multi-family sector” ... -
Are Higher Exposures to Flame Retardant Chemicals Associated with Papillary Thyroid Cancer?
(2019-04-26)Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) occurrence has been significantly increasing throughout the world, and particularly in the US, for several decades. At the same time the use of flame retardants (FR) chemicals has increased, ... -
A Case Study of GreenToGo in Durham, North Carolina
(2019-04-26)The goal of the GreenToGo program in Durham, North Carolina is to provide the shared customers of GreenToGo and local Durham restaurants with an environmentally-conscious option for carryout food containers. This report ... -
Bioenergetic and Fitness Costs of PAH Adapted Fundulus heteroclitus to Early Life PAH and Hypoxia Exposures
(2019-04-26)Growing evidence suggests that acute polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposures have toxic mitochondrial effects and may inhibit aerobic respiration. However, the effect of subteratogenic exposures during development ... -
Analyzing the Role of Vessel-Based Tourism on Masking on Antarctic Humpback Whales: A Petition for Management Solutions for Underwater Noise and Regulation of Antarctic Tourism
(2019-04-26)Ocean physics has been capitalized by marine life who have evolved the use of sound sensory modality for interacting with their environment. Marine animals use sound to forage, reproduce, communicate, navigate, and avoid ... -
Essential Reliability Service Requirements from Utility-scale Solar and Wind in Bulk Power Markets
(2019-04-26)For decades, the inherent provision of Essential Reliability Services (ERS) by central, dispatchable generators led to an abundance of frequency and voltage support, such that planners and operators of the U.S. Bulk Power ... -
Water Quality Monitoring for Environmental Assessment and Science Education
(2019-04-26)Nutrients, primarily nitrogen and phosphorus, are a chronic source of water pollution that threaten aquatic ecosystems and water supply across North Carolina. The Research Triangle, located in the North Carolina’s Piedmont ... -
Clean Water Through Conservation in the Jordan Lake Watershed
(2019-04-25)Watershed management is becoming increasingly holistic. Novel approaches are needed to satisfy the interests of diverse stakeholders – including municipal water users, environmental groups, and agricultural communities. ...
