Jane Lubchenco, University Distinguished Professor and Advisor in Marine Studies at Oregon State University, and U.S. Science Envoy for the Oceans, received the 2016 Linus Pauling Legacy Award at an event held in Portland, Oregon on April 26, 2016. In her award lecture, titled "Scientists Making Waves and Bringing Hope," Lubchenco detailed a collection of scientific activities and policy initiatives that are helping to rehabilitate the world's fisheries and that inspire hope for the health of the world's oceans moving forward.

The Linus Pauling Legacy Award is granted every two years by the Oregon State University Libraries and Press, and acknowledges outstanding achievement in an area that was once of interest to Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994).