Upon completing her PhD, Kremen spent 10 years working for nonprofit organizations in conservation biology. She studied the impacts of
Deforestation in Madagascar, on species distributions with a Web-based biodiversity database. Kremen eventually returned to North American and accepted a faculty position at
Princeton University for four years before becoming a professor of environmental science, policy and management at
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). In recognition of her research, she was named a 2007
MacArthur Fellows Program, which came with an unrestricted $500,000 award for the next five years. As an
associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, Kremen led a study in 2011 which concluded that farmers could become more cost-efficient if they relied less on renting honey bees. In recognition of her academic achievements, Kremen was elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 2013 and appointed Editor in Chief of the journal
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. In 2019, Kremen left UC Berkeley to become one of the first
University of British Columbia (UBC) President’s Excellence Chair in Biodiversity Studies at the UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. While serving in this role, she was awarded an honorary degree from the
American Museum of Natural History in "recognition of her extraordinary contributions to science, education and society." In 2020, Kremen was the recipient of the
Volvo Environment Prize for "exploring the way to a sustainable world." ==References==