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| Pamela A. Matson, PhD |
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Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Goldman Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences; FSI Senior Fellow
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ADDRESS
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matson@stanford.edu
(650) 723-2750 (phone)
(650) 725-6566 (fax)
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Mitchell Hall 101
397 Panama Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2210 |
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LANGUAGE
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| English |
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EXPERTISE
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greenhouse gas emissions from tropical forest and agricultural systems; causes and consequences of land-use changes and land management; sustainability and vulnerability in the environment |
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Pamela Matson is dean of the School of Earth Sciences, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, and an FSI senior fellow. Her research focuses on the effects of natural and human disturbances on biogeochemical cycling, and trace gas exchange in tropical and temperate ecosystems. She has provided evidence that land-use change and agricultural intensification in the tropics contribute to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, and that these activities thus contribute to regional and global environmental changes. In addition, she has analyzed the economic drivers of land-use decisions in developing agricultural systems, with a particular focus on Mexico and Hawaii, and has identified alternative practices that are economically and environmentally viable and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. She has also analyzed the consequences of human application of nitrogen in down-wind and down-stream ecosystems.
From 1993-1997, she was a professor of ecosystem ecology at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to 1993, she was a research scientist at the NASA/Ames Research Center. She is currently a member of the science advisory committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and serves on the National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development, the U.S. National SCOPE Committee, and numerous other committees. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994. In 1995, she was selected as a MacArthur Fellow, and in 1997 she was selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
She received a BS in biology from the University of Wisconsin in 1975, a MS in environmental science from Indiana University in 1980, and a PhD in forest ecology from Oregon State University in 1983.
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