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Ruth DeFries is an American geographer and professor at Columbia University. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She was born in 1957 in the United States. DeFries received her B.A. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979 and her Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984. She was a professor at the University of Maryland from 1984 to 2000, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 2000. DeFries is a MacArthur Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She has received numerous awards, including the Volvo Environment Prize, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. DeFries is an expert in land-use change and its effects on the environment. She has published numerous books and articles on the subject, including The Globalization of Food (2008) and The Human Footprint (2013). As of 2021, Ruth DeFries's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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2015

In April 2015, DeFries joined with a group of scholars in issuing An Ecomodernist Manifesto. The other authors were: John Asafu-Adjaye, Linus Blomqvist, Stewart Brand, Barry Brook, Erle Ellis, Christopher Foreman, David Keith, Martin Lewis, Mark Lynas, Ted Nordhaus, Roger A. Pielke, Jr., Rachel Pritzker, Joyashree Roy, Mark Sagoff, Michael Shellenberger, Robert Stone, and Peter Teague

1980

DeFries received her Ph.D. in 1980 from the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and her B.A. in Earth Science in 1976 from Washington University. In April 2016, Columbia University named her a University Professor, its highest academic rank. She had previously been the Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development in Columbia's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. Before moving to Columbia in 2008, she was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park with joint appointments in the Department of Geography and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.

1957

Ruth DeFries (born 1957) is an environmental geographer who specializes in the use of remote sensing to study Earth's habitability under the influence of human activities, such as deforestation, that influence regulating biophysical and biogeochemical processes. She was one of 24 recipients of the 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, and was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2006.