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James Brendan Heffernan
Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Ecohydrology
Environmental Sciences and Policy
james.heffernan@duke.edu
90328, Durham, NC 27708
9 Circuit Drive, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Grants
Landscape Pattern: Ridge, Slough, and Tree Island Mosaics
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Florida International University ·
2013 - 2024
Macrosystems, Collaborative Research: Defining Stream Biomes Beyond the Steady State
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2015 - 2023
Collaborative Proposal: MSB-FRA: Alternative Ecological Futures for the American Residential Macrosystem.
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2017 - 2020
Workshop: Respiration Regimes in River Networks: A cross-biome perspective
Conference
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2018 - 2019
Collaborative Research: Watershed, estuarine, and local drivers of coastal marsh establishment and resilience
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2015 - 2018
The Ecological Drill Hypothesis: Biotic Control on Carbonate Dissolution in a Low-Relief Patterned Landscape
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2014 - 2018
The pulse of a river across fluvial-tidal transitions
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by North Carolina State University ·
2016 - 2017
Enriching the Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Water Quality Sensor Networks in Urban Environments
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Oak Ridge National Laboratory ·
2015 - 2016
Collaborative Research: Ecological Homogenization of Urban America
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2012 - 2016
Understanding Broad Scale Drivers of Coastal Wetland Extent
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by NC Sea Grant ·
2015 - 2016
Nitrogen Losses: A Meta-analysis of 4R Nutrient Management in U.S. Corn-Based Systems
Research
Collaborator ·
Awarded by Foundation for Agronomic Research ·
2014 - 2015
Reallocation of Reservoir Storage Under Changing Conditions: Climate, Sedimentation and Environmental Flows
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Army Corps of Engineers ·
2014 - 2014
Livestock Ecosystem Services Evaluation and Assessment of Existing Water Quality Metrics, Tools and Methods
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Collaborator ·
Awarded by Department of Agriculture ·
2012 - 2014
