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DR. SUSAN LOZIER .. "A RARE PARTICLE"

On March 1st, the School of the Environment welcomed its newest facul­ty member, Dr. M. Susan Lozier. A physical oceanographer, she has accept­ed an assistant professorship in the new school. She will remain in Durham for several years utilizing the N.C. Micro Electronics Center, integrating with the Durham faculty, and developing a new student base. After that, she will move to the Marine Lab.

"Susan was our first choice in the search for a physical oceanographer. She came to us with the finest creden­tials", said Dr. Joseph Ramus, Director of the Marine Laboratory and member of the search committee. "She is the first physical oceanographer that Duke has had on its faculty in twenty-five years".

Her path towards physical oceanog­raphy contributes to Susan's uniqueness. After graduating from Purdue in 1979 with a degree in chemical engineering, Susan attended the University of Wash­ington where she received a master's in chemical engineering. It was there that she took a math course from a physical oceanographer. True to the ocean, Susan's course changed, and she went on to receive her Ph.D. in physical ocean­ography in 1989. A postdoctoral posi­tion at Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti­tution followed, where Susan researched the structure and dynamics of the Gulf Stream, the development of inverse models, and general circulation numeri­cal models.

There were a number of institutions vying for Susan's expertise. She chose Duke for a number of reasons.

"There are four or five places in the U.S. for physical oceanography. I

wanted to be at a university, teaching and developing curriculum," she said.

"Duke's program is a new program with new possibilities. Physical ocean­ography is a very young field, born after WW II. It only came into its own in the 1970's. There's a lot of opportunity in this field - things to discover, room to make a difference.

I really like my work. It's global, environmentally related and a relatively small field. You know most of the people in the ocean community," she said.

This embryonic stage of the new School of t],le Environment is unique, giving Susan a prime opportunity to make a difference. Dr. Joseph Ramus describes Dr. Lozier as a "rare particle moved into an even rarer environment. "

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Her vision of the future at DUML? Susan looks forward to teaching and working with graduate students. Head­ing her list of goals are program devel­opment and attracting these graduate students. She envisions a broader base of curriculum, perhaps even coordinat­ing course work and curriculum expan­sion with other area institutions, as is done in the Research Triangle area.

Dr. Susan Lozier represents a signif­icant step in our research and teaching program. She will undoubtedly make her mark on the entire physical oceanog­raphy community.

We are delighted with the addition of Susan, her husband Phillip, and their two children Joseph and Benjamin, and we all welcome them to the D UML family.

DUML Currents

Karen Ashley recently joined Dr. Van Ben eden's laboratory as a Research Technician. Prior to moving to More­head City two years ago, Karen was a student at Johns Hopkins University.

In February Joe Bonaventura went to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas, Houston, to do experiments with stroma-free hemoglo­bin in dogs, and then on to Austin to work on patent applications. Both Joe and Celia just returned from Puerto Rico where they served on an advisory committee to establish a Marine Biomed­ical Center there. April will include an ONR "Barnacle Busters" trip to Hawaii for Joe; an invertebrate oxygen carriers meeting in Holland (Celia and Joe); a meeting in Paris (Celia and Joe) with Jeffreys Wyman and John Edsall, two "grand old men" of biochemistry and a meeting in Switzerland (Joe) on vasoac­tive substances in the human body.

Marius and Thea Brouwer will spend two weeks in The Netherlands in April. Marius will be attending the International Congress on Invertebrate Dioxygen Carriers, presenting a talk titled "Glutathione-mediated Transfer of Cu(I) into Apohemocyanin. " They both will visit family including a special 80th birthday party for Marius' s father.

David Brown, a Cell Biology graduate student, recently joined Dr. Van Beneden's laboratory. He will study the mechanism of dioxin-induced tumors in clams. David received both his B.S. in chemistry and M.S. in microbiology at the Ohio University at Athens.

Dulce Bruno finished her studies in marine sciences in 1988 in the Faculty of Marine Sciences at the University of Las Palmas, Spain, and is currently working with Angel Luque and Joe Ramus on the physiology of seaweeds.

Mr. Fei Chai, Duke Dept. of Geology graduate student, is the first Cray Research Fellow in environmental sciences in North Carolina. He will be working on the project, "Physical­Biological Coupled Model in the Equa­torial Pacific Ocean", submitted by Dr. Richard T. Barber.

Bret Danilowicz, has been at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since September. He is rearing dams elfish

and studying the control of metamorpho­sis and settlement behavior in the field and laboratory and the development of cleaning symbiosis between cleaning wrasses and naive fish, i.e. this bigger, naive fish has never before interacted with the cleaning wrasse and may decide to eat him instead of cooperating. We expect Bret back in December.

DUML welcomes back Mona De Vries as Research Associate, having completed a two-year postdoc at NCSU. She will study the behavioral ecology of economically important fish larvae as it relates to their transport across the continental shelf to sounds and estuaries with Richard Forward.

Amy Hurst Evans, M.D. (B.S. '83, Summer '82) and Jonathan Evans, Ph.D. ('89 Ph.D. Botany) had their first baby December 26, Nicholas Warren.

Susan Kenney and Ann Manooch (NOAA librarian) attended the South­eastern meeting of the International Association of Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers at Skidaway Institute, Savannah, GA, March 10-13. The conference focused on Caribbean based information resources, CD-ROM technology and networking, and uses of computer based technology in marine science libraries.

In September, Mike Kingston ('91 Ph.D. Botany) was appointed biplogy instructor at Elon College. '

Bill Kirby-Smith's title has been changed to Associate Professor in the practice of Marine Ecology, School of the Environment. This is a change which recognizes both his contributions to teaching as well as research.

In September Bill Kroen ('89 Ph.D. Botany) began a teaching position as Assistant Professor of Biology at Wesley College, Dover, Delaware.

Steve Lindley is participating in the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) studying the processes controlling the carbon cycle in the equatorial Pacific. He joined the RIV Thomas G. Thompson in Tahiti on March 13. The experiment will document the 1991-92 El Nino. Dr. R. T. Barber is also participating in the experiment. He has documented the biological consequences of previous El Ninos in 1982-83 and 1987. Dr. Barber spent most of the winter aboard the

Thompson along with his technician Marta Sanderson. They are finding interesting differences between the present and previous El Ninos, which should shed new light on these important phenomena.

M. Susan Lozier, her husband Phillip, and son Joseph welcomed new family member Benjamin on October 21, just in time for the move to Duke.

Congratulations to Helen Nearing for receiving one of Duke's Presidential Awards. Every year, each department may nominate two biweekly employees, but only 39 awards are presented. SOE did well this year, receiving two of these highly coveted awards. The other SOE recipient was Valinda Wilkins at the Durham campus.

DUML welcomes back Patrick Ng'ang'a from Nairobi, Kenya. Patrick received his MS at DUML in 1988. He has returned to do a Ph.D. with Tom Johnson titled "Lacustrine ostracods and hydrochemistry from lakes in Kenya. "

In March Dan Rittschof gave a talk on the evolution of chemical communi­cation at an oceanography symposium at the University of Laval in Quebec. His was the only talk in English. The French Canadians found cartoons gener­ated by Gail Cannon and Helen Near­ing especially helpful in understanding the talk. Dan spent some time with Eric Holm (Ph.D., 1990; Sutherland). Eric is now rapidly mastering French. Dan spent the weekend discussing and plan­ning larval recruitment and chemorecep­tion studies with Canadian colleagues.

Chris Scholz spent part of N ovem­ber 1991 in Russia planning for a multi­channel seismic reflection survey to be conduCted on Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake and probably also the old­est, on the order of 20 million years. The object of the study is to unravel the stratigraphic and deformational history of the rocks and basins beneath the lake. They want to understand processes that break up the earth's crust and cause rifts between the tectonic plates.

In November, Becky Van Beneden spoke at the annual SETAC meeting in Seattle. Her talk summarized the role of oncogenes and suppressor genes in tumors in aquatic organisms.

John D. Costlow Retires

There should soon be a new shingle hanging in Beaufort: "John D. Costlow, environmental consultant, coastal and marine sciences."

After 41 years at Duke University Marine Laboratory, including 21 years as director of the facility, Dr. Costlow, an internationally known scientist, re­searcher and teacher, has retired.

But don't expect to find the good doctor sitting and cracking pecans in the living room of his historic home on Ann Street in Beaufort very often.

He's simply moving on to a new classroom, and he'll have more than enough to keep himself busy. Instead of passing knowledge to graduate and undergraduate students from the four comers of the world, he aims to enlight­en folks in the larger and potentially more important classroom outside academia.

"The real gap in information is not at Duke, at UNC, or N.C. State," he said. "It's in the information that elect­ed officials need to make intelligent decisions.

According to Dr. Costlow, many academics tend to "look down their noses" at the real world of politics. But having served two terms as mayor of Beaufort in the 1960's, and having served on government-appointed boards and commissions from North Carolina to Portugal, he sees things differently.

"I understand some of the complex­ities of government and politics, "he said. "I've always viewed myself as something of a catalyst, bringing to­gether groups and individuals who otherwise might talk to each other only in courts."

Dr. Costlow has been serving on the policy committee of the Albemarle­Pamlico Estuarine Study (APES), a five­year, multimillion dollar federal and state effort to identify problems and pose solutions to those problems in North Carolina's largest estuarine system.

Once APES officials have made their recommendations, they'll need to get involved in politics in order to trans-

late knowledge into action. He's also proud of what has been

accomplished at Duke Lab. When young John Costlow arrived

there in 1951, the facility was a summer operation. Each fall, the doors were closed and locked and everyone, except a caretaker, went back to Durham.

John Costlow got a grant from the U.S. Navy to study shell development and molting in acorn barnacles, and the doors stayed open. ,,

After finishing' that research in 1952, Dr. Costlow moved back to Durham. He came back in 1954 as a resident investigator. Eventually, after serving as Beaufort mayor from 1963-66, and living overseas in London for a couple of years working for the Navy, he was named Lab Director in 1968, a position he held until retiring to teach and concentrate on research in 1989.

Since those early days, the Lab has grown exponentially. Undergraduate courses were added. One program has taught more than 100 young people from 26 developing countries.

Foreign scholars, many of whom Dr. Costlow met during trips to virtually every marine lab in Europe, visit regu­larly. Duke scientists, experts in such disciplines as biology, oceanography, zoology, chemistry, botany, and bio­chemistry, carry the university's reputa­tion around the globe.

Dr. Costlow said, "There's no ques-· tion that Duke Marine Lab is in the upper echelon of marine labs in the United States.

"It's been a magnificent 41 years. I've been privileged to be part of it, and I hope that years from now, someone else will be able to look back with the same satisfaction. "

DUML GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT- AN

The geological research and teaching activities of DUML have been a well kept secret until now. Finally, the "mud wrestlers" story can be told.

Prof. Tom Johnson teaches courses in geological/physical oceanography and past climatic change. The courses have included the occasional field trip to Fort Macon beach or into the local estuaries.

Tom has gained a reputation for picking the worst weather day, weeks in advance, for cruises out to the Continen­tal Shelf. How many of you have accompanied him out to the sea buoy, only to tum around under the bounciest of circumstances and head back to "those interesting geological features" under the Morehead City bridge?

With the coming of the RIV Susan Hudson, Tom set an all-time record last fall with his Climate Change class, by taking them 50 miles offshore to the upper continental slope, where everyone except the captain had an opportunity to take on different shades of green. With the added scientific instrumentation on the Susan Hudson, we expect to be spending even more time offshore.

Geological research at DUML has focused on sedimentary processes and paleoclimate/paleoceanographic interpre­tation of sediment cores from the west­ern North Atlantic Ocean and large lakes.

Tom and his students have conducted seismic and hydrographic surveys and sedimentological studies on the large sedimentary ridges found at the base of the continental rise off the southeastern United States. This research was sup­ported by the National Science Founda­tion and the Duke/UN C Oceanographic Consortium, and involved several cruis­es aboard the R/V Cape Hatteras.

Lisa Lynch Rom and Andrea John­son received MS degrees in 1986 and 1987 and Brian Haskell a Ph.D in 1991 as a result of these investigations. Lisa and Andrea analyzed piston cores and Ocean Drilling Project cores, respective­ly, from the Blake Outer Ridge. Brian recovered more piston cores from the same ridge, and combined analyses of

Brian Haskell and Tom Johnson select core sites aboard the RN Cape Hatteras.

these with hydrographic data, box cores analysis and sea-floor photography.

In addition, several undergraduate students carried out various indepe;ndent study projects on sediment cores collect­ed on these cruises. The primary goal of these studies has been to work out the history of the Western Boundary Under­current, a strong, deep water current that flows from north to south along the continental rise. Analyses of sediment cores show that this current has fluctuat­ed dramatically in response to the comings and goings of the ice ages.

The other major area of geological investigations are sedimentological and paleoclimate studies on the large lakes of the East Africa Rift Valley. This work has involved the participation of many students, post-docs and research faculty.

John Halfman received his Ph.D in 1987, publishing on past climatic change of the Ethiopian Highlands, based on the analysis of sediment cores from Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Patrick Ng'ang'a obtained his MS degree in

Lisa Lynch Rom helps pull in the hydro­phone cable aboard the RIV Cape Hatteras.

1988 based on a study of seismic reflec­tion profiles, side scan sonar records and sediment cores off river deltas and border faults in Lake Malawi.

Dr. Cynthia Pilskaln, a DUML research associate, first deployed a sophisticated, time-series sediment trap

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE GROUP

Jim McGill, John Halfman, and Chris Scholz assist our African colleagues with load­ing equipment on the TIMBA, Lake Malawi, in January 1992.

Mary Mungai and Keith Sturgeon at work on the carbonate extraction line.

in Lake Malawi in 1987, and has con­tinued to recover and redeploy the trap each year since that time. Dr. Paul Hearty was involved in stratigraphic studies and attempts at developing new dating techniques of the African lake sediments while he was a Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Bruce Finney,

another DUML research assocjate, conducted extensive geochemical analy­ses of our sediment cores from Lakes Turkana and Malawi, finding new indi­cators of past climatic change in the geochemical signals.

At present, Dr. Chris Scholz, Re­search Assistant Professor, is working with Tom and four graduate students on the African rift lakes. Chris's area of expertise is geophysics and he is current­ly developing new capabilities in digital processing of seismic <Jata at DUML.

Chris and Tom just returned from a six-week long survey of five river deltas in Lake Malawi. Much of their time was spent aboard a 70-foot boat with 15 people, four Americans and 11 Malawi­ans, collecting seismic and side scan sonar data and with 51 sediment cores.

The four graduate students include two Kenyans, Mary Mungai and Patrick Ng'ang'a. Both are working on their

Patrick Ng 'ang 'a reading the lake surface temperature at Lake Turkana, Kenya in 1991

Ph.D's, using stable isotope analysis of calcite in African lakes to learn more about climatic change. Such studies are useful to African nations because a de­tailed history of climatic variations, on a decade-by-decade basis, can provide valuable insight for future climate predi­cations and sound management of natu­ral resources. Doug Ricketts and Wendy Pabich are in their first year courses in Durham and are looking forward to joining the Beaufort group this summer.

The real workers in the geology program, of course, are the technicians. This talented and dedicated crew has included Tom Davis, John Graves, Melissa Wenrich, Ann Hewes, and Nancy Vaughn. At present, Keith Stur­geon mans the sedimentology labs, and Kate Whittaker handles the logistics and communications with the African con­tracts.

The best news for 1992 is that the geological program will be enhanced by the arrival of our new Assistant Profes­sor, Peter How d. Peter's specialty is nearshore processes, including the ef­fects of waves and longshore currents on sediment transport and beach dynamics. Peter and his wife, Kathryn will arrive in June, and we look forward to the new strength that he and his students will add to the geological community at DUML.

CHARLES BOYER ('40 AM, '48 Ph.D. Zoology) was a graduate student in Zoology before and after World War II. After he received his Ph.D. he taught invertebrate zoology at the University of Louisville for two years. He then spent 26 years teaching gross and neuroanatomy at the University of Alabama Medical School.

Now that he is retired in Cape Coral, FL, he is walking the beaches with kids and playing golf. In a recent letter to me, he wanted to know why I didn't include any information on the folks who were at DUML with Dr. Pearse and me in 1938, 1939, and 1940. During those years, Dr. Pearse organ­ized many trips from Durham.

On one of those trips, Dr. Pearse failed to make a curve at New Bern, and he, the car and passenger, a small, blond, 1 00-pound graduate student named HELEN RAMSEY, rolled down a bank. Fortunately, neither Dr. Pearse nor Miss Ramsey were injured. Later, Miss Ramsey became an instructor in human anatomy.

Other graduate students on those trips included GEORGE WHARTON ('39 Ph.D., Zoology), Professor Emeri­tus, Ohio State University; WILLIAM DeTURK (Summers '38, '39, '40), the first Ph.D. based on work done at the Marine Lab; and WILLIAM H. SUTCLIFF ('50 Ph.D.) now at Bedford Institute, Nova Scotia.

DR. BERT CUNNINGHAM, a staff member of the Zoology Department and major professor of CHARLES BOYER, also came to Beaufort in the 1940's to work on the development of diamondback turtles.

After WILLIAM DeTURK com­pleted his doctoral research with Dr. Pearse on the parasites of crabs m the Beaufort region, he accepted a position as instructor in Biology at Vanderbilt University. From 1943 to 1946, he was an assistant in pharmacology, and from 1946 to 1948 he was a research associate in pharmacology. In 1948 he received his M.D. from Vanderbilt Medical

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School. After an internship there, he joined the Duke Medical Center in 1949 as Assistant Professor of Pharmacology. In 1954, he became an Associate Profes­sor. His research included the mecha­nisms of action of drugs, nitrogen metabolism of bacteria, and effects of drugs on bacterial metabolism.

BETTY McMAHAN ('46 AB, '48 MA; Summer '54) took two termite­oriented trips during 1991. One, in June was to the La Selvatain forest in Costa Rica where she and a BBC photographer tried for 10 days to entice the assassin bug to perform its termite baiting behav­ior for the movie camera.

The other was an eleven day trip to the Luquillo rain forest of Puerto Rico in October, to continue a study of the effects of Hurricane Hugo on termite populations there.

Now that Betty has retired from the Zoology Department at UNC, she stays busy as a "cartoonist" for Carolina Meadows news publication, the Mead­owlark, and continues to analyze data of her field studies of termites and write the inevitable reports.

FRANK MATURO ('53 AM; '56 Ph.D., Zoology; Summer '53) toqk my Marine Invertebrate Zoology course at DUML in 1953, and was a teaching assistant in the course for three succes­sive summers. In his 1991 Christmas card, he wrote that last year both the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the University of Florida gave him awards for the Outstanding Faculty Advisor of the Year. This past October, as part of the University's Homecoming Celebration, he and two other faculty members were honored with the Distin­guished Faculty Award by Florida Blue Key, the University's most prestigious leadership honor.

HARVEY S. GOLD ('58 AM) is Executive Vice President of the National Pest Control Association. Harvey writes that his department is producing a varie­ty of educational and training materials, from books and manuals to videos. This spring the Association will produce an

insect ID manual complete with photo­graphs.

CHARLES E. EPIFANIO ('71 Ph.D., Zoology; Summer '66 and '67) became associate dean at the University of Delaware College of Marine Studies in November. Hence, he serves as Director of the Lewes Campus and oversees the academic program.

His present research is in three areas: developing a mathematical model of larval dispersal of blue crabs in the Middle Atlantic region; studying the effects of natural variations in the abundance of zooplankton prey on growth and mortality of fish and crab larvae; and conducting a long-term study of recruitment by blue-crab megalopae at a number of sites along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

KAREN R PUGA ('73 BS; Summer '71) and her husband are in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Puga is on assign­ment with AT&T and Karen is studying the birds of Spain.

LESLIE A. DAVIS ('87 BS; Summer '85; Fall '86) finished Law School at the University of Southern California in May 1991. She is now in Carson City, Nevada, working for a year with a Nevada Supreme Court Justice. She is still planning to practice environmental law, possibly in the San Francisco area.

BETH ANNE FRANCE ('87 AB; Fall '85) is attending the University of Alaska.

SUSAN GAERTNER ('88 BS, Summer '86; Spring '87) completed work with the NOAA Corps in April 1991. She then worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle sampling bottom fish and sediment to determine the effects of pollution. She enrolled in the School of Marine Affairs at University of Washington in the fall and is currently working towards a MS.

GARY GRANT ('89 BS; Summer '87) is now a third-year student at Stan­ford University Medical School. He writes that his future speciality may be neurosurgery.

McCleave Named First McCurdy Visiting Scholar

Professor James D. McCleave, Chairman, Department of Oceanography and Cooperating Professor of Zoology, University of Maine, was chosen from a distinguished slate of candidates to be our first Mary Derrickson McCurdy Scholar at DUML. His research in­cludes the study of the distribution of eel leptocephali and adult eels in fronts. In recent years he has been the author or co-author of sixty scientific papers in ichythology.

The Mary Derrickson McCurdy Visiting Scholars program is intended to be mutually beneficial and foster a free exchange of ideas in the study of ocean processes. Professor McCleave has informed Dr. Ramus he is prepared to teach a seminar each semester. Possible topics include "Animal Transport and Migration in Tidal Regions", "Biologi­cal Processes at Frontal Zones", "Fisher­ies Oceanography", "History of Anguil­la", "Writing and Critical Assessment in Marine Sciences" or "Use of Intuitive Software (STELLA) in Marine Model­ing."-

While at DUML, Dr. McCleave's research may include movements of yellow and silver phase European eels in relation to tidal current flow, onshore transport of eel larvae and juveniles, or home range and homing in American eels. Dr. McCleave would also like to compare home range size or transport

behavior during homing in estuarine situations where tidal range is small as compared to that in Maine.

all alumni and friends of DUML who have not contributed to do so before June 30th. The Annual Fund helps us meet critical operating needs of the Laboratory -boat repairs, student aid, classroom supplies, equipment and start up funds for two new faculty.

The DUML community is looking forward to the arrival of Dr. McCleave in September.

ANNUAL GIVING REPORT The Annual Giving response card

below can be clipped out and returned with your gift.

At the end of March, the DUML Annual Fund for 1991-92 had received $121,560, i.e. 78.4% of our goal of $155,000. We thank all who have con­tributed to the Annual Fund and urge

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James H. P. Bailey Jr. '68 David M. Barringer C. Leland Bassett '59 Charles F.Bianchard '47 L'49 Charles Bugg '47, H'54 Robert W. Carr L. Hartsell Cash '45 Arthur W. Clark F. Nelson Blount Crisp '60 John R. Eisenman '63 C. Howard Hardesty Jr. '43

Professor Emeritus in Zoology Chairman~ Marine Lab Annual Fund

ADVISORY BOARD

Robert G. Hardy '66 Watts Hill Jr. A. Smith Holcomb '58 Susan Hudson Sandra Taylor Kaupe Henry 0. Lineberger Jr. '50 Diane McCallister '78 Anne F. McMahon '44 William C. Powell Richard C. Seale '65

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Fred J. Stanback '50 Katherine Goodman Stern'46 Norwood A. Thomas Jr. '55 Elizabeth A. Thrower '60 Charles B. Wade Jr. '38

Ex Officio Members Margaret R. Bates '63 Norman L. Christensen Jesse M. Colvin '74

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At their December meeting for 1990, the Duke University Board of Trustees unanimously approved the prospectus for the School of the Environment (SOE), and set into motion its forma­tion. In a retrospective upon leaving Duke for the Institute for Advanced Studies, Provost Phillip Griffiths herald­ed the SOE as one of the crowning achievements of Duke during his tenure. A national search for Dean was conduct­ed, and the University chose Prof. Norman L. Christensen to head the SOE. Dean Christensen is a distin­guished forest ecologist, and held ap­pointments on both the Botany and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies faculties at Duke. On the 1st of July 1991, the new School and Dean were in place!

The start-up of the SOE is best de­scribed as a square wave. Faculty development, curriculum, governance, facilities and budget for the new school had to be provided. Thus began the 11 strategic planning process 11 for the school, which includes primarily two units of the University, the Marine Laboratory and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The inaugu­ral date of both units was 1938, and the mission of both was directed to the environment, one oceanic and the other

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terrestrial. Historically, however, the two units evolved quite independently, and had little practical knowledge of the other.

The Dean presented his game plan to the combined faculties, which was an iterative grass roots process to forge the new school. The functional unit for the strategic planning process is joint faculty committees charged with specific goals. The faculty-of-the-whole retreated in January in Durham, and again in March in Beaufort, to tune the planning.

The SOE breaks from tradition in having 11 centers 11 as the fundamental organizational unit, rather than depart­ments. Centers facilitate research mis­sions, and administrative housekeeping and instruction reside in the School. That allows centers to be fluid and adjust to intellectual currents. Initially, the Marine Lab will house the Center for Ocean Sciences, the Marine Biomedical Center, and part of the Wetland Center. All faculty will hold appointments in the School, either primary or joint, and will select an appropriate title for their appointment, e.g., Professor of Physical Oceanography. I

From the perspective of the Marine Laboratory, responsive new curricula will emerge from the strategic planning process, namely those leading to under-

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graduate tracks in ocean science, a baccalaureate degree in environmental science, an M.E.M. degree in coastal resource management and a Ph.D. in ocean science. And new research oppor­tunities will emerge as well, enabled by the lack of compartmented disciplines.

The strategic planning process is the prologue to a salutary chapter in the history of the Marine Laboratory. At the outset, it should be appreciated that the SOE is a shared vision of both the Beaufort and the Durham faculties.

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