Christopher B. Field, one of the world’s preeminent climate scientists and founding director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford, has been appointed to serve as the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

His selection was announced Tuesday by Provost John Etchemendy and Ann Arvin, vice provost and dean of research. Field will succeed Jeffrey Koseff and Barton “Buzz” Thompson, who have led Woods, an interdisciplinary institute for research on the environment and sustainability, since its was established in 2004 as the Stanford Institute for the Environment. The institute was renamed the Stanford Woods Institute in 2006 in honor of Priscilla and Ward Woods, ’64.

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“We want to thank Jeff Koseff and Buzz Thompson for their exceptional leadership and deep commitment to the Woods Institute, and look forward to its next chapter under Chris’ leadership,” Arvin said of the current Perry L. McCarty directors.