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DESCRIPTION:Join the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability community for 
 our Alumni Awards Reception and Dinner. Connect with Stanford students\, f
 aculty\, staff\, and fellow alumni and join us as we honor the 2023 recipi
 ents of our alumni awards: George Steinmetz\,’79 Geophysics\, 2023 Disti
 nguished Alumni Award recipient\, and Mehana Blaich Vaughan\, PhD ’12 E-
 IPER\, 2023 Early- to Mid-Career Alumni Award recipient.\n\nGeorge Steinme
 tz\, best known for his aerial photography\, has a restless curiosity for 
 the unknown: remote landscapes\, our changing climate\, and how we can mee
 t the ever-expanding food needs of humanity. His current projects are docu
 menting climate change and the global food supply\, primarily with profess
 ional drones. Since 1986\, George has completed more than 40 major photo e
 ssays for National Geographic and 25 stories for GEO magazine in Germany. 
 George has won numerous awards for photography during his 35-year career\,
  including three prizes from World Press Photo. He has also won the Enviro
 nmental Vision award from Pictures of the Year\, a citation from the Overs
 eas Press Club\, and was named National Geographic’s Adventurer of the y
 ear in 2008.\n\nMehana Blaich Vaughan grew up in Namahana and Kalihiwai\, 
 Kauaʻi\, where she and her husband are raising their three children. A fo
 rmer high school and middle school teacher in Hawaiian charter schools\, M
 ehana is now an associate professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Māno
 a in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management and 
 U.H. Sea Grant College program. Her work focuses on restoring indigenous-l
 ed\, community-based natural resource management and relationships to plac
 e\, which can in turn enhance resilience to climate change. She founded K
 īpuka Kuleana\, a nonprofit organization and community land trust on Kaua
 ʻi that perpetuates kuleana to place through the protection of cultural l
 andscapes and ancestral lands. All proceeds from her 2018 book Kaiāulu: G
 athering Tides\, benefit Kīpuka Kuleana.\n\nEvent Schedule:\n\n2:00 p.m. 
 Undergraduate Research Oral Presentations\n\n3:00 p.m. Undergraduate Resea
 rch Poster Presentations\n\n4:00 p.m. Reception\n\n5:00 p.m. Dinner and Ce
 remony\n\nAlumni: Register here\nStudents\, Faculty\, and Staff: Register 
 here
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LOCATION: Mitchell Earth Sciences\, Mitchell Patio
SUMMARY:SDSS Alumni Awards Reception and Dinner
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CATEGORIES:Social Event/Reception
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