CARTA to digitize extensive primate collection this summer

Funding for CARTA currently comes from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation; Mr. James H. Handelman, Executive Director; and by Annette C. Merle-Smith.

About CARTA

The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) was established by faculty at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies as a virtual organization to promote transdisciplinary research into human origins, drawing on methods from a number of traditional disciplines spanning the humanities, social, biomedical, biological, computational and engineering, and physical and chemical sciences. As the word anthropogeny implies, CARTA's primary goal is to explore and explain the origins of the human phenomenon.

About SDSC As an organized research unit of UC San Diego, the San Diego Supercomputer Center is a national leader in creating and providing cyberinfrastructure for data-intensive research. Cyberinfrastructure refers to an accessible and integrated network of computer-based resources and expertise, focused on accelerating scientific inquiry and discovery. SDSC is a founding member of the national TeraGrid, the nation's largest open scientific discovery infrastructure.