Gretchen Daily

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gretchen Daily
Occupation	University Teacher
Date Of Birth	Oct 19, 1964(1964-10-19)
Age	60
Birthplace	Washington, D.C.
Country	United States
Horoscope	Libra

Gretchen Daily Biography

Gretchen Daily is one of the most popular and richest University Teacher who was born on October 19, 1964 in Washington, D.C., United States. Gretchen C. Daily (born on the 19th of October, 1964 Washington D.C.) is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford also a Senior Fellow at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Her research interests center around biogeography, conservation biology , and ecology. Daily is also co-founder with the Natural Capital Project, a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Daily is also a board member of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics as well as the Nature Conservancy.

Daily has been awarded numerous prestigious honors and awards during her time at university. These include The 21st Century Scientist Award (2000), The Sophie Prize (2008), The International Cosmos Prize (2009), The 16th Annual Heinz Award with a special attention to global climate change as well as The Midori Prize (2010), the Volvo Environment Prize (2012) The Blue Planet Prize (2017) and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2020). Daily was awarded her 2018 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the field that includes Ecology as well as Conservation Biology, jointly with Georgina Mace, for establishing essential tools for advancing science-based policy “to combat species loss.”

In 2005, Daily (the project leader from Stanford), along with partners at The Nature Conservancy, the University of Minnesota, and the World Wildlife Fund, established the Natural Capital Project. The organization’s stated goal is to “improve the state of biodiversity and human well-being by motivating greater and more cost-effective investments in both.” As one of the directors of the Natural Capital Project, Daily “serves as [the organization’s] chief emissary to financial and government leaders.” In 2006, Daily became a member of the board of directors of the Nature Conservancy. Daily served as the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Sustainability Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2013.

In 2005, Daily was appointed as the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and was made the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. As of 2013, Daily still holds all three of these positions.

Nature’s Services: Social dependence of Natural Ecosystems was released at the end of 1997 and was published through Island Press. Nature’s Services starts off with an introduction by Daily named “What are Ecosystem Services” and a second introduction composed by Harold Mooney and Paul Ehrlich that tries to explain the “fragmentary history” of ecosystem services. After the introductions the book is divided into four sections that focus on different elements of ecosystem services.

Gretchen Daily Net Worth

Gretchen Daily is one of the richest University Teacher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gretchen Daily 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Daily graduated with a B.S. in biology from Stanford University in 1986. She continued to earn her M.S. in biological sciences from Stanford University in 1987 and earned her Ph.D. in biological sciences at Stanford University in 1992.

The year 1992 was the time that Daily earned the title of the Winslow/Heinz Postdoctoral Fellow at the UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. In 1995, Daily was appointed an Bing Interdisciplinary Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. While she was researcher, Daily served as the editor of Nature’s Services Social Dependence of Natural Ecosystems The book offers an example of the advantages that ecosystems can bring to societies and suggestions for how to quantify the importance of ecosystem services. It was noted by the Heinz Foundation noted that Nature’s Services “has served as a model for ecosystems regulation in several regions of the world and was a catalyst for the U.N.’s Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.” After seven years as a researcher, Daily was appointed as an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and as a senior fellow in the Institute of International Studies (both at Stanford University) in 2002. The year 2002 was the time that Daily was also the co- author of The New Economy of Nature The Search to Make Conservation Profitable with Katherine Ellison.

The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable was co- written by Daily and Katherine Ellison and was published on September 1, 2003, by Island Press. The book presents different cases studies where companies or governments were able to actually profit from their conservation efforts. One chapter describes how New York “decided to meet federal requirements to improve water quality with a less expensive, though more controversial, option of protecting watershed integrity through land purchases and development limits, rather than adopt the technological solution of a multibillion dollar treatment facility.” While another chapter offers “an assessment of plans to manage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing a worldwide system of carbon trading patterned on the U.S. experience with pollution”

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