"For the 2002 centennial, Carnegie trustees decided to invest ina new department,'' says Chris Field, interim director of the newdepartment."Our goal is to do basic science that takes advantage ofdramatically powerful new ecological tools, which can help usunderstand what's happening to the Earth on a continental andglobal scale."

Stanford University has given permission to Carnegie toconstruct a multi-million dollar, 10,000-sf facility on theseven-acre site it currently leases from the university. Carnegieplans to have a staff of 35 and five faculty members by its 2003opening.

Some of Carnegie's other research centers include Embryology inBaltimore; Terrestrial Magnetism and the Geophysical Laboratory inWashington; the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena; and theDepartment of Plant Biology in Stanford.

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