Dorinda G. Dallmeyer '73, '77, '84  Dorinda G. Dallmeyer is director of the Environmental Ethics
Certificate Program at the University of Georgia. A native of Macon, Ga.
she holds three degrees from UGA: B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology and a
J.D. Prior to attending law school, for more than three years she conducted
research in tropical marine biology and ecology and collaborated on a number
of scientific articles. Her research has taken her to Jamaica, the Great
Barrier Reef, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, including a week-long saturation
dive in the underwater habitat HYDROLAB.
Immediately after graduation from law school in 1984, she joined the staff
of Dean Rusk Center for International Law. Over the course of her 21-year
career there, her primary research areas crossed a broad spectrum of
international law, with a particular emphasis on the role of negotiation and
dispute resolution. Her research has been supported by grants from the
MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Ford Foundation, the
Canadian Embassy, the National Science Foundation, and the Hewlett
Foundation. Among other titles, Ms. Dallmeyer has edited books on civilian
uses of space, globalization and environmental ethics, the negotiation of
maritime boundary disputes, and marine environmental ethics. In 2005 she was
appointed by the Ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council to a
nine-member committee evaluating the impact of fisheries on coastal and
ocean ecosystems. Also in 2005 she received the Phillip Reed Memorial Award
for Outstanding Writing about the Southern Environment in recognition of her edited anthology "Elemental South". Dallmeyer is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a past
vice-president of the American Society of International Law. At UGA, she
teaches courses in environmental dispute resolution and marine environmental
ethics. A devoted natural scientist, she has lectured on cruises in Alaska,
Greenland, Central America, and the Caribbean in addition to more than 20
expeditions to Antarctica.
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