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| Campaign Update! Carnegie’s scientists moved into the Department of Global Ecology's environmentally friendly, “green" building in the spring of 2004. It is located adjacent to the Department of Plant Biology on the campus at Stanford University. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation contributed $1 million toward its construction. The W. M. Keck Foundation contributed $1.5 million toward the creation of a sophisticated remote-sensing instrument that will enable Carnegie's environmental scientists to measure regional ecological processes with unprecedented accuracy. |
A New Department—Global Ecology For the first time since 1929, the trustees of the Carnegie Institution have established a new scientific department—the Department of Global Ecology, located adjacent to Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The new department officially began operating in July of 2002. Environmental scientists in the Department of Global Ecology seek to answer a broad range of fundamental questions about the biosphere. Questions involving ecological patterns at large spatial scales and interactions between biological and physical components of the earth system form the core agenda of the department. This work is leading to a new and expansive understanding of ecological phenomena on a world-wide scale. The
campaign goal for the department is $20 million for endowment
and $7 million for the environmentally friendly, "green" building,
which has made creative use of materials and technologies to
enhance energy conservation and resource sustainability. 1-06 |