Press releases

Jun

2017

Carnegie’s Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez Announced Pew Latin American Fellow

By Carnegie HQ

Pew announced the 2017 classes of biomedical scholars, Latin American fellows, and Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research today. Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez of the Department of Plant Biology Dinneny ...

Jun

2017

Ken Caldeira, Carnegie climate scientist, about pulling out of the Paris climate agreement

By Carnegie HQ

“It is times like this, when public funding for important science is buffeted by the gale-force winds of political controversy, that I feel extremely fortunate to be a scientist at the Carnegie ...

May

2017

Plant Biology’s Jia-Ying Zhu Receives Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C .--Plant Biology postdoctoral research associate since 2012, Jia-Ying Zhu was awarded the sixth PIE award for her creativity, productivity, being a great team player in research, “and ...

May

2017

How Satellite Data Led to a Breakthrough for Lake Erie Toxic Algal Blooms

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—With the growing frequency and magnitude of toxic freshwater algal blooms becoming an increasingly worrisome public health concern, Carnegie scientists Jeff Ho and Anna Michalak, ...

Apr

2017

Plants have been helping to offset climate change, but now it’s up to us

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —Plants are currently removing more CO 2 from the air than they did 200 years ago, according to new work from Carnegie’s Joe Berry and led by J. Elliott Campbell of UC Merced. The team ...

Jan

2017

High-tech maps of tropical forest diversity identify new conservation targets

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —New remote sensing maps of the forest canopy in Peru test the strength of current forest protections and identify new regions for conservation effort, according to a report led by ...

Jan

2017

Global Ecology’s Mary Whelan Receives Fifth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—Global Ecology NSF Fellow Mary Whelan has been honored with Carnegie’s fifth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award. These prizes are made through nominations from the ...

Nov

2016

Rainfall variation complicates nitrogen runoff management

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —New research from two Carnegie scientists has serious implications for the development of management strategies to reduce nutrient runoff in waterways and coastal areas. Human ...

Oct

2016

How fast will we need to adapt to climate change?

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— What would we do differently if sea level were to rise one foot per century versus one foot per decade? Until now, most policy and research has focused on adapting to specific amounts ...

Sep

2016

New Tools Assess the Future of Wind Power

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA—Using software tools developed by Near Zero , a research group hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology, a team of researchers has completed the ...

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