Dan Hammer

Dan Hammer
Academic career
FieldEnvironmental economics
InstitutionUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (PhD, 2017), Swarthmore College (BA, 2007)

Dan Hammer is an environmental economist and winner of both the inaugural Pritzker Award and the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by Young Alumni at UC Berkeley.[1] He is a National Geographic Fellow, and served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith in the Obama Administration.[2] Hammer was the Presidential Innovation Fellow that released the first API listing for NASA, amounting to the data infrastructure design for the space agency's public data.[3] In addition, prior to NASA, Hammer was the Chief Data Scientist at the World Resources Institute, where he helped re-launch Global Forest Watch, an open-source project to monitor deforestation.[4]

  1. ^ Colgan, David (9 November 2017). "UCLA presents inaugural Pritzker Award to environmental economist Dan Hammer". UCLA Newsroom. Los Angeles, California, United States. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
    - "Dan Hammer Wins Inaugural Pritzker Award". Presidential Innovation Foundation News. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
    - Pritzker, Tony (9 November 2017). "A conversation with the Pritzker Genius Award winner". UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
    - "Achievement Awards". Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. ^ "OSTP Leadership and Staff". Retrieved 24 February 2017.
    - "National Geographic Explorers". National Geographic. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. ^ Benderly, Beryl (13 July 2015). "Putting women at the controls at NASA". Science. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
    - Bergman, Barry (4 December 2014). "Ph.D. on hold, White House fellow's stars align at NASA". Berkeley News. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
    - "Meet the Fellows". Presidential Innovation Fellows. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
    - Carr, David (12 November 2014). "NASA Explores New World Of Open Data". InformationWeek. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Dan Hammer | World Resources Institute". 2013-08-07. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
    - Strickland, Eliza (16 April 2014). "Google Earth Engine Brings Big Data to Environmental Activism". IEEE Spectrum.
    - Keeso, Alan (December 2014). "Big Data and Environmental Sustainability" (PDF). Smith School Working Paper Series. 14 (4). Oxford University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
    - "Global Forest Watch" (PDF). Lighthouse Case Study. Global Solutions Network. 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2015.