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John Patrick Fay

John Patrick Fay

Lecturing Fellow in the Division of Environmental Science and Policy
Environmental Sciences and Policy
John.Fay@duke.edu
Box 90328, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC 27708-0328
9 Circuit Dr, Box 90328, 3112 Grainger Hall, Durham, NC 27708-0328

Selected Publications

Market prospects for biogas-to-energy projects in the U.S.A. based on a techno-economic assessment of major biogas sources in North Carolina

Journal Article Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments · December 1, 2023 Current market potential for biogas-to-energy projects in the United States is analyzed based on levelized cost of energy (LCOE) estimates for producing renewable electricity, compressed natural gas (bio-CNG) and renewable natural gas at 2,837 landfills, w ... Full text Open Access Cite

Using geographic information systems to characterize food environments around historically black colleges and universities: Implications for nutrition interventions.

Journal Article J Am Coll Health · April 2022 ObjectiveTo understand the distribution of healthy and unhealthy food stores near historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Participants and methods: Using ArcGIS Pro's network analysis tools and ReferenceUSA database, this study characterized ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Leveraging Big Data Towards Functionally-Based, Catchment Scale Restoration Prioritization.

Journal Article Environmental management · December 2018 The persistence of freshwater degradation has necessitated the growth of an expansive stream and wetland restoration industry, yet restoration prioritization at broad spatial extents is still limited and ad-hoc restoration prevails. The River Basin Restora ... Full text Cite

How many mountains can we mine? Assessing the regional degradation of Central Appalachian rivers by surface coal mining.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · August 2012 Surface coal mining is the dominant form of land cover change in Central Appalachia, yet the extent to which surface coal mine runoff is polluting regional rivers is currently unknown. We mapped surface mining from 1976 to 2005 for a 19,581 km(2) area of s ... Full text Cite

Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world's watersheds

Journal Article Conservation Letters · August 2009 AbstractDespite unprecedented worldwide biodiversity loss, conservation is not at the forefront of national or international development programs. The concept of ecosystem services was intended to help conservationists demo ... Full text Cite

Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions.

Journal Article Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · February 2008 Limitations imposed on species ranges by the climatic, ecological, and physiological effects of elevation are important determinants of extinction risk. We modeled the effects of elevational limits on the extinction risk of landbirds, 87% of all bird speci ... Full text Cite

Delayed population explosion of an introduced butterfly.

Journal Article The Journal of animal ecology · March 2006 1. The causes of lagged population and geographical range expansions after species introductions are poorly understood, and there are relatively few detailed case studies. 2. We document the 29-year history of population dynamics and structure for a popula ... Full text Cite

Linking Spatial Patterns of Bird and Butterfly Species Richness with Landsat TM Derived NDVI

Journal Article International Journal of Remote Sensing · 2004 Cite