Unlike most universities, the Graduate School at Cornell is organized into over 90 disciplinary Fields, which may or may not have close affiliations to a particular department.
Fields are voluntary groupings of faculty members and scientists with similar areas of interest.
The Field of SCAS has about 50 faculty members at Cornell's Ithaca campus and at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. Fields at Cornell may be subdivided into Subject Areas and are further subdivided into Concentrations. The Field of SCAS is not divided into multiple Subject Areas, such that the Subject Area also is Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences. Faculty have been drawn together into the Field of SCAS by mutual professional interests in the Concentrations of Atmospheric Science, Environmental Information Science, Environmental Management, Field Crop Science, Soil Science, and Agronomy. The Field of SCAS is closely linked with the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, two administrative units within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.