The 2010 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Biological Production and Environment
• Achievement:
  Contributions to solving global environmental issues based on the analysis of nitrogen and other substances' cycles
• Lecture:
  A Slice of Life; 50 Years of Emission Tomography

Major Honors and Awards

1990	Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment
1992	Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
1992	W.S. Cooper Award, Ecological Society of America
1993	Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993	R.H. MacArthur Award, Ecological Society of America
2002	Time/CNN America's Best Ecologist
2005	Marsh Ecology Book Award, British Ecological Society
2006	Award for Scientific Reviewing, National Academy of Sciences

Academic Degrees

1971	B.A., cum laude in Political Science, Amherst College
1975	Ph.D. in Biology, Dartmouth College

Professional Career

1975-1979	Assistant Professor of Zoology and Biology, Indiana University
1980-1983	Associate Professor of Botany and Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1984-Present	Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
1993-Present	Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University

Title

• Professor of Biology, Stanford University

Major Publications

• Peter M. Vitousek (1982) Nutrient Cycling and Nutrient Use Efficiency. Am Nat. 119, pp. 553.
• Peter M. Vitousek, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich and Pamela A. Matson (1986) Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis. BioScience, 36, 368-373
• Peter M. Vitousek & L.R. Walker (1989) Biological invasion by Myrica faya in Hawai'i: plant demography, nitrogen fixation, and ecosystem effects. Ecological Monographs 59: 247-265.
• Peter M. Vitousek & R W. Howarth (1991) Nitrogen limitation on land and in the sea: How can it occur? Biogeochemistry 13: 87-115
• Peter M. Vitousek, John D. Aber, Robert W. Howarth, Gene E. Likens, Pamela A. Matson, David W. Schindler, William H. Schlesinger, David G. Tilman (1997) Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle: Sources and consequences. Ecological Applications: 7, 737-750.
• Peter M. Vitousek, Harold A. Mooney, Jane Lubchenco, Jerry M. Melillo. (1997) Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems. Science 277, 494-499.
• Peter M. Vitousek (2004) Nutrient Cycling and Limitation: Hawai'i as a Model System. Princeton University Press.
• Peter M. Vitousek, T.L. Ladefoged, P.V. Kirch, A.S. Hartshorn, M.W. Graves, S.C. Hotchkiss, S. Tuljapurkar, and O.A. Chadwick (2004) Agriculture, soils, and society in precontact Hawai'i. Science 304: 1665-1669
• Peter M. Vitousek, R. Naylor, T. Crews, M. B. David, L.E. Drinkwater, E. Holland, P. J. Johnes, J. Katzenberger, L. A. Martinelli, P. A. Matson, G. Nziguheba, D. Ojima, C. A. Palm, G. P. Robertson, P. A. Sanchez, A. R. Townsend, F. S. Zhang (2009) Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development: Science, 324, 1519-1520.