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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 taken from a glider and always with an expansive view on the world.
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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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For Aditi Sheshadri, an assistant professor of Earth system science, a career studying atmospheric dynamics launched from an early interest in space propulsion.
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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.
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Yuchen Li, ’26, is deepening a lifelong interest in science by studying ocean circulation over the summer as part of an undergraduate research program.
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Part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability's first graduating class, Eric Bear, CS ’23, SUST ’23, is drawing connections between technical expertise and sustainability.
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Stanford scientist Tiziana Vanorio learned the value of public service from growing up in a family with a calling for ethics and justice. Now, she sees her work developing a low-carbon cement as her way of giving back.
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Three Stanford graduate students share what led them to study the oceans, and why the next generation of ocean scholars must define the field more broadly than ever before.
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"On paper, I’m a finance and operations manager, but I feel like a mechanic: I keep the Center for Ocean Solutions running day in and day out. "
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"I mostly study earthquakes and wave loading conditions, but climate change is driving more disastrous hurricanes, increased flooding, and catastrophic wildfires, all of which increase the risk to our civil infrastructure."
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As a young adult, Ayla Pamukçu found herself at a crossroads between college and culinary school. Thanks in part to an influential box of rocks, she chose a research path that eventually led to a career studying the inner workings of the Earth.
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"My first trip to London opened my mind to the idea that buildings can tell stories. It was my first time experiencing a built environment that really preserved history, celebrated culture, and was designed for people’s welfare. Around that time, at age 15 or 16, I grew interested in sustainable design."
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"Life has taken me on a long journey. My family fled Somalia and ended up in a refugee camp in Mombasa, Kenya, where we spent four years. I was born there, and two years later we were granted asylum and came to the States."
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Geophysicist and world tectonics leader applies her scientific knowledge for risk reduction.
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Combining entrepreneurship with a passion for helping people.
