Mary Corliss Pearl (born July 5, 1950), an environmental scientist, is a former Dean of William E. Macaulay Honors College.
[1] Formerly, Dr. Pearl served as the first dean and administrative vice president of Stony Brook University Southampton.
[2] She left this position in July 2010 to become chief executive officer of the Garrison Institute, a research and retreat center.
She simultaneously held the positions of senior research scientist at Columbia University, based at the Center for Environment Economy and Society.
Board member of the Institute for Ecological Research (Brazil), Ecohealth Society, Society for Conservation Biology (board governor 1990-1993), International Union for Conservation of Nature (primate specialist group species survival commission), International Women's Forum, and the Belizean Grove.