CI - Carnegie Institution of Washington Herbarium - Stanford, California - Herbaria on Waymarking.com

The Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), also called the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW), is an organization in the United States established to support scientific research. The institution is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Today the CIS directs its efforts in six main areas:

1. Astronomy at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (Washington, D.C.) and the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Pasadena, CA and Las Campanas, Chile);
2. Earth and planetary science also at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and the Geophysical Laboratory (Washington, D.C.);
3. Global Ecology at the Department of Global Ecology (Stanford, CA);
4. Genetics and developmental biology at the Department of Embryology (Baltimore, MD);
5. Matter at extreme states also at the Geophysical Laboratory; and
6. Plant science at the Department of Plant Biology (Stanford, CA).

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