Profiles
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With a love of animals and a dedication to climate issues, Mitchell Zimmerman stewards the ecosystems across Stanford’s land for an impact that’s as widespread as it is personal.
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Acacia Lynch is enthusiastic about farming, food systems, and inviting others into these efforts in the field and the classroom.
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Channeling her passion for community building, Emily Blackwell connects groups across campus to improve sustainable practices at events and beyond.
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Three students share about their work and inspiration to expand sustainability at Stanford.
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Yi Cui is harnessing the power of nanoscience to grow extremely small structures—which play a huge role in the clean energy transition.
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For Dimitri Saad, understanding the path to net-zero requires engaging not only with data, but also with the communities involved.
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A second-year PhD student in Earth and planetary sciences and bestselling science fiction author, Ashing-Giwa never misses a chance to blend lab and lit.
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Tess Snyder studies the environmental policy implications of the auto industry, from the emissions effects of tax credit programs for electric vehicles to gas mileage legislation.
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Daniel Swain, PhD ’16, studies extreme floods. And droughts. And wildfires. Then he explains them to the rest of us.
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Ching-Yao Lai combines her passion for physics with climate science to better understand Earth’s polar ice sheets and how they contribute to climate change.
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“We can solve the coral reef problem, but scientists can’t play their cards close to the chest. We need to figure out the science and share it. That possibility fills me with optimism.”
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The scholarship will support Goldberg’s graduate studies in climate change, planetary health, and environment and development.
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Associate Professor Jane Willenbring brings her passion for people and surface processes to understand how environmental changes impact life on Earth, and how life impacts the planet.
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Hunt Allcott explores how new environmental solutions can be made as effective, sustainable, and equitable as possible.
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Three students including Earth systems and international relations undergraduate student Kate Bradley will pursue graduate degrees at the University of Oxford in England.
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The fellowship program attracts innovative scholars into the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability who demonstrate research excellence and inclusive leadership in STEM.
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"I study how regional leaders manage their marine resources, like fisheries, and the lessons they offer to the rest of the world about the power of collective approaches to conservation," says Staci Lewis, Early Career Fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions.
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Yuan Wang seeks to understand how particle pollution from vehicles, industry, and wildfires affects our future climate and extreme weather events like hurricanes.
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Stanford students take local high schoolers behind the scenes of renewable energy and battery research.
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A self-described accidental environmentalist tells photographic stories about Earth, agriculture, and community, often from a glider and always with an expansive view, both literally and philosophically.
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A deep respect and vision for her community’s Indigenous culture, rich history, and exquisite environment grounds the work of this dynamic Hawaiian educator and researcher.
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"As a kid I would go to construction sites with my dad, a civil engineer, and he’d show me plans for putting reinforcement inside concrete columns. Together, we would count that the right amount of steel was there to protect a structure."
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"I was born in Kumasi, Ghana, and moved to the U.S. with my parents and older sister when I was 2 years old. We lived in a predominantly white and wealthy suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, where I really never saw individuals who looked like me, which often left me feeling out of place."
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"If I were to describe to my younger self how I now travel through tropical, remote islands of Micronesia to engage with community leaders about ocean and coastal policy, it would have been exciting and unimaginable to me," says Eric Hartge, Research Development Manager at the Center for Ocean Solutions.
