The Clark Lab

Denis Valle receives Dean’s Award for best student paper

James Clark, Ph.D. — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:31:22 +0000

From the announcement: I am pleased to announce this year’s winner of the Dean’s Award for best PhD student manuscript:

Denis Valle for his paper: Conservation Efforts May Increase Malaria Burden in the Brazilian Amazon, in PLOS ONE Volume 8, issue 3. Denis will receive an award of $3,000 for his paper.

Kai Zhu awarded NSF grant

Kai Zhu — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:19:35 +0000

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awards a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) to Kai Zhu for support of the project entitled “DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Forest climate requirements change through species life history.” This award is effective May 1 , 2013 and expires April 30, 2014. [more]

Faculty of 1000 citation on climate and tropical trees

James Clark, Ph.D. — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:50:12 +0000

Rapp et al. paper in Ecology: “Populations within species are generally assumed to be less productive at colder temperatures, but this study demonstrates that this assumption may not hold in tropical forests.” [more]

Kai Zhu receives ESA Award

Kai Zhu — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:10:32 +0000

Kai Zhu receives the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2012 Outstanding Research in Ecology by a Graduate Student Award on August 7 at the ESA annual meeting in Portland, OR. [more]

Kai Zhu receives Dean’s Award

Kai Zhu — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:03:31 +0000

Kai Zhu has been named winner of this year’s Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Student Manuscript of Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He was honored for his entry, “Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change,” which was published in Global Change Biology. He will be acknowledged at this year’s graduation ceremony on May 12, and receive a check for $1,500. [more]

Climate impacts on North American forests

James Clark, Ph.D. — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:19:21 +0000

“The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant totaling $4,273,484 to fund the study, which aims to provide the first probabilistic forecasts of combined forest biodiversity responses to climate change, including growth, reproduction and mortality risk, directly linked to the process scale…” [more]

Duke Global Health Initiative on malaria study

James Clark, Ph.D. — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:07:53 +0000

“Researchers at Duke developed a novel statistical model that is able to devise new ways of identifying people who are infected with malaria but don’t show symptoms of infection…” [more]

GCB tree migration paper in Faculty 1000

Kai Zhu — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:32:20 +0000

“Zhu, Woodall and Clark use a relatively simple and elegant approach to analyze forest inventory analysis (FIA) data… [T]he work is a valuable contribution and gives sufficient evidence that range responses of trees to climate change will not be as simple as a little bump to the north…” links to F1000 evaluation and GCB article.

Denis Valle awarded Stern Fellowship

James Clark, Ph.D. — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:30:58 +0000

Duke’s competitive Katherine Goodman Stern Fellowship has been awarded to Denis Valle for the 2012-13 academic year, selected from nominations university-wide.

media coverage of tree migration in Global Change Biology

James Clark, Ph.D. — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:56:36 +0000

GCB paper on failure to migrate

Articles/Reports:

November 9, 2011 – Can trees keep up with climate change? — [more] — Climate Central
November 2, 2011 - Breaking Story – [more] — National Science Foundation
November 2, 2011 – Study: Most U.S. forests not adapting to climate change — [more] — USA Today
October 31, 2011 – Trees not adapting well to climate change -Science News [more] — United Press International
October 31, 2011 – Forests not keeping pace with climate change — [more] — EurekAlert!, American Association for the Advancement of Science
October 31, 2011 – Eastern forests not adapting quickly to climate change -Notes on Energy and the Environment [more] — The Charlotte Observer
October 18, 2011 – Failure to migrate -Is climate change causing forests to flee? [more] — Conservation Magazine

Multimedia:

November 03, 2011 – Rising temps tough on some trees — [more] — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC

Press Release:

November 01, 2011 – New study: Forests not keeping pace with climate change — [more] — Nicholas School News and Events

Bayesian inference on age-specific survival in Faculty 1000

James Clark, Ph.D. — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:44:36 +0000

from Fernando Colchero’s PhD

“With this Bayesian method, one is able to make inferences about individuals using population-level data.” links to f1000 and the paper in J Animal Ecol.

Perspectives on Moran and Clark in Molecular Ecology

James Clark, Ph.D. — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:42:23 +0000

“Pollen and seed dispersal inferred from seedling genotypes: the Bayesian revolution has passed here too…” The Perspectives section of Molecular Ecology

climate epidemiology of forests in Global Change Biology

Robert Schick, Ph.D. — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:31:23 +0000

the new paper in Global Change Biology on the epidemiology of trees has press release from NSF. Read the release here.

2010 Ecological Monographs in Faculty 1000

Robert Schick, Ph.D. — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:26:54 +0000

from 18 years of forest response in Ecological Monographs: High-dimensional coexistence based on individual variation: a synthesis of evidence. Link to the full abstract is here. This paper was recently selected by the Faculty of 1000. Read the evaluation here.

Carl Salk wins the 2010 Peccei Award

Robert Schick, Ph.D. — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:38:54 +0000

Carl Salk has won the 2010 Peccei Award from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Salk completed his PhD in 2011.

Science paper four reviews in Faculty 1000

Anne Stine — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:56:46 +0000

“This article helps to divert the focus of community ecologists from species, which often represent means of a small or large sample of individuals, to the individuals themselves…” link to f1000 and article

biodiversity paradox, three reviews in Faculty 1000

James Clark, Ph.D. — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:39:24 +0000

here

climate warming and forests

James Clark, Ph.D. — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:03:07 +0000

New warming experiment at Duke and Harvard in Duke Environment Magazine

inference for ecological data in Faculty 1000

James Clark, Ph.D. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:34:35 +0000

“Cressie et al. describe how ecological uncertainty is routinely and systematically underrepresented, but also how it can be represented more comprehensively…” [more]

drought and density dependence in bighorn sheep — Faculty 1000

James Clark, Ph.D. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:37:16 +0000

“Using a Bayesian state space framework and Monte Carlo simulations, the authors show the importance of density dependence and an increase in mean drought severity (surrogate for climate change) in driving population survival…” [more]