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Pamela A. Matson

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American scientist

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1953 · age 73
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Pamela Anne Matson is an American scientist and professor. From 2002 - 2017 she was the dean of the Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. She also previously worked at NASA and at the University of California, Berkeley.

Awards 5

2012Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
2002Continuing Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
NASA Exceptional Service Medal
MacArthur Fellows Program
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Pamela Anne Matson is an American scientist and professor. From 2002 - 2017 she was the dean of the Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. She also previously worked at NASA and at the University of California, Berkeley. Matson is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies (Emerita) at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a Senior Fellow (Emerita) at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Matson is a winner of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the "genius grant," and is considered to be a "pioneer in the field of environmental science." She was appointed to the "Einstein Professorship" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. She received an honorary doctorate from McGill University in 2017. She is married to fellow scientist Peter Vitousek.

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United States
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Academics
Type
Academic
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living
Dates
Born 1953 · age 73
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