Dear Stanford Earth Sciences Alumni and Friends,

Annual gifts to the Earth Sciences Fund are a high priority during The Stanford Challenge. Your gifts support students and faculty, course development, research in the lab and in the field, and equipment purchases. They help us to provide our students with superb training, experience with the latest technologies, and the skills to adapt and learn quickly as opportunities emerge.

Because the Earth Sciences Fund is unrestricted, it gives me the flexibility to answer the school's most pressing challenges, and gives our students and faculty the ability to pursue promising new opportunities for which no other funding exists.

Please accept my profound thanks for your interest in the school and your support of the Earth Sciences Fund, both of which are crucial to the continuing health and growth of the School of Earth Sciences. Your gift counts toward The Stanford Challenge, and helps us to fulfill our mission of seeking solutions to environmental problems and training the next generation of environmental leaders.

	Sincerely,
	Pamela A. Matson The Chester Naramore Dean   of the School of Earth Sciences The Richard and Rhonda Goldman Professor of   Environmental Studies