Press releases

Oct

2007

Mellon Awards Carnegie Grant for Ecological Monitoring in South Africa

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford , CA The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $750,000 grant to the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology for an intensive pilot study of ecosystem diversity in South Africa’s ...

Oct

2007

Global Ecology Building Wins Another Award

By Carnegie HQ

The Center for the Built Environment—an organization where industry leaders and researchers cooperate to produce substantial, holistic, and far-sighted research on buildings—awarded the Department of ...

Oct

2007

Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira’s New York Times Op Ed Piece

By Carnegie HQ

Ken Caldeira, of Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology, has an Op Ed piece about how to cool the planet in the October 24, 2007, New York Times . See http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/opinion/ ...

Oct

2007

Rise in Atmospheric CO2 Accelerates as Economy Grows, Natural Carbon Sinks Weaken

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford , CA -- Human activities are releasing carbon dioxide faster than ever, while the natural processes that normally slow its build up in the atmosphere appear to be weakening. These ...

Oct

2007

Popular Science Magazine Names Global Ecology’s Greg Asner One of 2007’s “Brilliant Ten”

By Carnegie HQ

Greg Asner of the Department of Global Ecology has been picked by Popular Science magazine as one of its annual “Brillant 10.” According to the magazine’s November issue, Brilliant 10 researchers “ ...

Oct

2007

Global Ecology’s Field and Caldeira Major Contributors to Nobel-winning Climate Panel

By Carnegie HQ

Carnegie scientists Chris Field and Ken Caldeira of the Department of Global Ecology are key contributors in the UN panel awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on October 12 for work on global climate ...

Sep

2007

CO2 emissions could violate EPA ocean-quality standards within decades

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford , CA . In a commentary in the September 25, 2007, issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), a large team of scientists state that human-induced carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions will ...

Aug

2007

Rain forest protection works in Peru

By Carnegie HQ

Contact Gregory Asner at gpa@stanford.edu 650-380-2828, http://asnerlab.stanford.edu/ For images see http://www.carnegieinstitution.org/asner_peru/ For a copy of the paper contact AAAS Office of ...

Jun

2007

Introducing Carnegie's Eye in the Sky

By Carnegie HQ

The skies over Hawaii buzz with the propellers of small aircraft. Most of them ferry people among the islands, or give tourists a glimpse of inaccessible locales. But there is one among the swarm ...

May

2007

Greg Asner of the Department of Global Ecology to discuss laser-generated topographic images

By Carnegie HQ

Dr. Greg Asner of Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology discusses laser-generated topographic images in on-demand video .

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