Awards and Recognition
Awards and Recognition
Since its founding in 2004, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment has been recognized frequently for the ingenuity, passion and pioneering spirit behind its interdisciplinary research. Woods fellows and affiliated faculty have been honored with numerous prizes and awards for their efforts to find solutions to environment and sustainability challenges. Below is a selection of the accolades received by our research community since 2009:
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Senior Fellow Rosemary Knight was awarded Honorary Life Membership from the Near-Surface Geophysics Section of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 2012.
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Senior Fellow Steven Gorelick was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
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Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily won the 2012 Volvo Environment Prize and the 2010 Heinz Award for her work to place a value on the services provided by natural ecosystems.
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Senior Fellow Barbara Block was honored with the Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2012 for her plan to monitor large predators off the coast of California.
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Center Fellow David Lobell was the recipient of a NASA New Investigator Award in 2011 and the 2010 James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union for "significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding young scientist."
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- Senior Fellow Pam Matson received the Colorado State University Eminent Ecologist Award in 2011.
- Center Fellow Nicole Ardoin was named the Inaugural Fellow of the Women's Voice and Influence Program at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Studies in 2011.
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Senior Fellow Peter Vitousek accepted the 2010 Japan Prize for his pioneering work in biogeochemistry and global sustainability.
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- Senior Fellow Michele Barry was awarded the Ben Kean Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in 2010.
- Center Fellow Noah Diffenbaugh was a recipient of the NSF Career Award from the National Science Foundation in 2010.
- Senior Fellow Christopher Francis was a recipient of the NSF Career Award from the National Science Foundation in 2009.
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Senior Fellow Paul Ehrlich received the Ramon Margalef Prize for lifetime achievement in ecology and environmental sciences in 2009.
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- Senior Fellow Rosemary Knight was awarded the Life Membership Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 2009.
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Senior Fellow Eric Lambin won the Francqui Prize in Science in 2009.
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- Senior Fellow Raymond Levitt won the Pathfinder Award from the Engineering Project Organization Society in 2009.