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Kat Hoffman: 500-million years of plate tectonics in 10 minutes. 06/09/2008

Gretchen Daily wins the 2008 Sophie Prize 03/20/2008

IPER featured in Stanford Challenge video 03/06/2008

Stanford launches program to prepare diverse doctoral students for academic careers 12/04/2007

Video interview with Margot Gerritsen discussing her SmartEnergy Show 11/29/2007

Margot Gerritsen: With growth of blogging on campus, Stanford gets caught up in Web 2.0 11/28/2007

Community invited to memorial planned Monday for Edmund Chang, geologist 11/28/2007

Christina Riesselman (GES) to be featured in video teleconference series broadcast from McMurdo Station, Antarctica starting Nov. 28. 11/26/2007

Pam Matson, Anne Egger: Fund Supports Innovative Pedagogy 11/12/2007

IPER PhD Student Rodrigo Pizarro's project on Integrated Salmon-Seaweed Cultivation wins the 2007 Intel Environment Award 11/08/2007

Rob Dunbar on NPR series exploring the Palmyra Atoll 10/29/2007

Rebecca Goldman (IPER): How to think like a lawyer without changing career paths 10/24/2007

Julie Kennedy: Group hopes small guide will have big impact on environment 10/19/2007

Pam Matson on Panel addressing Global Security and Climate Change 10/16/2007

IPER alum Mike Mastrandrea associated with Nobel Prize for Gore and IPCC 10/15/2007

Greg Asner: Forest protection works in Peru 08/22/2007

Karen Seto: Satellite images reveal link between urban growth and changing rainfall patterns 07/03/2007

Sally Benson, Tony Kovscek, Lynn Orr, and Mark Zoback among researchers examining carbon capture and storage to combat global warming 06/14/2007

Heather Lukacs was a recipient of the 2007 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award 06/13/2007

Gary Ernst honored by GSA with book titled "Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions: A Tribute to W.G. Ernst" 06/06/2007

Pamela Matson reflects on protecting the planet without harming its people in the May issue of Stanford Magazine 05/10/2007

Pamela Matson received the National Resource Ecology Lab's 2007 Eminent Ecologist Award 05/09/2007

Rebeca Hwang featured in CNET video and story on finding clean water for Buenos Aires' underserved, as part of the Engineering Change series 04/10/2007

Holmes Hummel named one of two 2007-08 AAAS Congressional Science Fellows 04/09/2007

Kirsten Oleson: The Kyoto Protocol is an important catalyst, and carbon finance is its most powerful tool 02/15/2007

Lecture series to explore China's rapid modernization 11/17/2006

The Natural Capital Project, led by IPER Director Gretchen Daily, is a collaboration between Stanford, The Nature Conservancy and WWF 11/15/2006

IPER affiliated faculty member, Jim Sweeney, to direct the new Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency 10/05/2006

Kim Cahill, Chris Field: Historic weather data can be used to develop accurate yield predictions for a number of important California crops 10/02/2006

Roz Naylor, quoted in NYT Magazine article: Green to the Gills 09/15/2006

Joshua Goldstein, Pamela Matson: Land Conservation efforts offer rewards for cattle ranchers 06/14/2006