"Congratulations to Encinitas resident, Prof. Kim Prather, along with colleagues Prof. Naomi Oreskes and Prof. Emeritus Charles Kennel, this year's recipients of the UCSD Muir Environmental Fellow award. I was one of the inaugural winners last year when the prize was established."Looking at the UC San Diego John Muir College Website:
"In 2011 Muir College inaugurated a new tradition to honor the legacy of the college’s namesake, John Muir. Each year, the college names as Muir Environmental Fellows a selected group of individuals affiliated with UC San Diego (faculty, staff, or alumni) whose work has contributed significantly to the cause of sustainability and environmental preservation."
2011 Environmental Fellow Award Recipient
For many years, Lisa Shaffer has been a principal moving force in sustainability efforts at UC San Diego and in San Diego at large. Among a long list of awards and honors, she has been presented with the UCSD Sustainability Award; the City of San Diego Climate Champion Award; and NASA’s Exceptional Service and, Special Service medals. She has served as a board member of the Kids-vs.-Global-Warming and iMatter March; as a member of the Board of Directors for the California Center for Sustainable Energy; and for years, as the Executive Director of the Environment and Sustainability Initiative at UCSD, forerunner of the Sustainability Solutions Institute. At the Rady School of Management, Shafer teaches courses such as Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility and serves as a resource for sustainability and green job-related outreach. She also teaches a graduate seminar at IRPS on Corporate Strategy and the Environment.
2012 Environmental Fellow Award Recipient
Kim spoke out at a city council meeting almost exactly one year ago about the hazard to our health with the widening of Interstate 5. Kim is the last to speak (7:10) on this clip. You are encouraged to watch the whole thing as the first 2 speakers, the Minsters, Bernard and C.J., as ever give highly cogent description of what is going on and one of Kim Prather's students precedes her speech. It isn't hard to be very proud of the citizenry of Encinitas when people like this make such a commitment to their community.Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at UC San Diego, is an internationally recognized scientist who takes her innovative research on aerosols and their impact on the environment outside the lab to school children in San Diego and to the community more broadly. Affiliated with both the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and SIO’s Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Prather is a founder and Director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and Environment (CAICE). Through standing partnerships that she has established with local schools such as Castle Park High School in Chula Vista and Paul Ecke Elementary School in Encinitas, she and her research group bring their instruments to K-12 classrooms to educate students about pollution and climate change and to encourage them to consider careers in science. No less committed to education at UCSD, Prather is an excellent teacher who was nominated by her students in 2009 for the UCSD Faculty Sustainability Award in recognition of her teaching which encourages students to apply the principles of air pollution, climate, and health to real world experience.
