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Dr. Duane A. Gill Associate Director for Research on Society and the Environment, Research Fellow & Research Professor, MAFES, SSRC; Professor of Sociology, MSU Ph.D., Sociology, Texas A&M University
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| Duane A. Gill is Associate Director for Research on Society
and Environment and Research Professor at the Social Science Research Center
(SSRC) and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology,
Anthropology and Social Work at Mississippi State University. Dr. Gill is part of a research team that has been investigating human impacts of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska through a series of longitudinal studies funded by the National Science Foundation, the Earthwatch Center for Field Studies, and the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council. He was also part of a research team that conducted a study of community impacts of the 2004 Selendang Ayu shipwreck and oil spill in the Aleutian Islands. More recently, he was part of a research team investigating how the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill in San Francisco Bay affected resource user groups in the area. These research activities seek to understand community preparedness for, response to, and recovery from disasters. Dr. Gill has also collaborated on several studies of impacts of Hurricane Katrina. These include a needs assessment of Mississippi State University students and a survey of displaced students from three New Orleans universities. In addition, he organized and led a Katrina Summit that brought together several nationally and regionally recognized disaster scholars to discuss research needs and approaches to the disaster. He served as guest editor for a special issue of Sociological Spectrum [volume 27(6)] and as co-guest editor of the Journal of Public Management and Social Policy [volume 13(2)], both of which focused on social impacts of Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Gill has directed several research projects related to environmental issues in Mississippi, including water quality and agriculture in the Mississippi Delta, crop biosecurity, management of fishery resources, hazardous waste disposal, lignite coal development and natural hazards. He is currently working on a NSF-funded project on improving tsunami readiness among individuals and communities. Dr. Gill is past President of the Mid South Sociological Association and the Alabama Mississippi Sociological Association. He has served on the Minerals Management Service Outer Continental Shelf Scientific Committee and currently serves on the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council’s Socioeconomic Panel. Dr. Gill is also a Fulbright Scholar, having spent the 1998-99 academic year at the University of Bahrain. |