[DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News May 9, 2004
Susan Weiler
weilercs at whitman.edu
Sun May 9 15:03:06 CDT 2004
DIALOG and Disccrs News
May 9, 2004
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Resources
Proposal Workshop for New Investigators in the Antarctic
National Science Foundation
23-24 August 2004
Letter of Intent Deadline: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 - Midnight, EDT
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm
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A workshop will be held 23-24 August 2004 at the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to encourage proposals from investigators who are new
to the U.S. Antarctic Program. Staff of the Foundation's Office of
Polar Programs (OPP), which funds and manages the U.S. Antarctic
Program, will discuss:
- Opportunities for NSF support of antarctic research and education
- NSF's field program for operational support of antarctic research
- Proposal preparation and proposal review criteria
- NSF policies and other funding programs
The workshop will include presentations and opportunities to meet with
NSF antarctic program managers.
Attendance will be limited to researchers who have not been a Principal
Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on an NSF/OPP antarctic
research grant and who are, or will be, eligible to apply for an NSF
antarctic research grant by the 2 June 2005 proposal deadline for NSF
Antarctic Research. Ph.D. candidates within 1 year of graduation,
postdoctoral fellows, and new faculty are particularly encouraged to
apply.
Airline tickets for attendance at the workshop will be provided to a
limited number of applicants who meet the requirements described in NSF
04-32 (http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm). All
participants will assume the cost of meals and housing.
To apply:
(1) Carefully review the description of the NSF Antarctic Research
Program (NSF 04-559) at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04559/nsf04559.htm
and NSF 04-32 available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm
(2) If you are interested in pursuing scientific research in the
Antarctic, e-mail a letter of intent to:
NewInvestigatorAntarctic at nsf.gov
Letter of Intent Deadline: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 - Midnight, EDT
(3) In one page or less, list your name, contact information, and your
current academic status, including your graduation date. Also summarize
your general research interests and your research plans.
(4) State whether or not you are requesting an airline ticket, your
airport of origin, and your requested destination (Baltimore-Washington,
Reagan National, or Washington-Dulles).
Additional information, including the conference agenda, can be found on
the NSF web site at:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm
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Science News
Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for
examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience
WARM CLIMATE'S EFFECTS STRIKING IN WEST
from The Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Just outside this
mountain town, where the acres of ponderosa pine
turn into a Christmas green blur, Tom Whitham
eyes the weary, struggling forest.
Death is everywhere. Their limbs bare and bark brittle, the trees quickly
turn this forest into an aching reminder of the devastation of drought and a
massive bark beetle infestation. Whitham pulls his pickup truck over and
gestures to the dead trees -- 75 percent in this area alone.
Forget talk of global warming and speculation of what it might do in 50
years, or 100. Here and across the West, climate change already is
happening. Temperatures are warmer, ocean levels
are rising, the snowpack is dwindling and melting
earlier, flowers bloom earlier, mountain glaciers
are disappearing and a six-year drought is
killing trees by the millions.
http://snipurl.com/64ar
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Forum
NSF Environmental Research and Education Lags in FY 2005 Budget
From Craig Schiffries, Ph.D.
Director of Science Policy
National Council for Science and the Environment
Funding for the Environmental Research and
Education (ERE) portfolio of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) would decline by 0.2 percent--to
$932.2 million--under the President's budget
request for FY 2005. This is the first time that
ERE funding would decline since the National
Science Board identified environmental research
as one of NSF's "highest priorities" in 2000. In
contrast to the proposed cut for ERE funding, the
total NSF budget would increase by 3 percent in
FY 2005. The ERE portfolio is a crosscutting
"virtual directorate" that coordinates
environmental activities across the entire agency.
The 2000 National Science Board (NSB) report,
"Environmental Science and Engineering for the
21st Century: The Role of the National Science
Foundation," recommended raising NSF's ERE budget
167 percent, from approximately $600 million to
$1.6 billion over a period of five years. The
report directs NSF to develop budget requests
that are consistent with this recommendation.
The lagging growth of the Environmental
Research and Education budget relative to the
total NSF budget in recent years raises serious
concerns about its status as one of the agency's
"highest priorities." In the years immediately
following the National Science Board report,
growth in the ERE budget reflected its priority
status: from FY 1999 to 2001 the ERE account
grew more rapidly than the overall NSF budget
(30.7 percent for ERE versus 20.3 percent for
total NSF). However, the ERE growth rate has
trailed the total NSF growth rate since that time
(Table 2). From FY 2002 to FY 2005 (request),
the ERE budget grew by only 13.1 percent while
the total NSF budget grew by 20.3 percent. For
the entire period from FY 1999 to 2005 (request),
the ERE budget grew by 56.6 percent--an increase
that is almost indistinguishable from NSF's
overall growth of 55.7 percent over the same
interval.
The National Science Board proposed a 167
percent increase for environmental research and
education in the context of doubling the overall
NSF budget. The doubling has not materialized.
Nevertheless, the lagging growth of the
Environmental Research and Education portfolio
relative to the total NSF budget in recent years
is surprising in light of the recommendation of
the National Science Board, which is the agency’s
governing body.
All of NSF's disciplinary directorates
include support for ERE, with the majority in
Geosciences (55 percent) and Biological Sciences
(23 percent). According to the FY 2005 budget
request, ERE funding in the Engineering
directorate would decrease by $2.0 million, and
ERE funding in all other Directorates would
remain flat. The budget for every disciplinary
directorate would increase under the FY 2005
budget request, but the budget for the ERE
component would not increase. After several
years of rapid growth, funding for the priority
area on Biocomplexity in the Environment--the
flagship program of the ERE portfolio--would be
flat at $99.8 million in FY 2005.
For an extended verion of this article,
including budget tables, please visit
<http://www.ncseonline.org/updates/page.cfm?fID=3672>http://www.ncseonline.org/updates/page.cfm?fID=3672
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings
NSF Proposal Workshop for New Investigators in the Antarctic
> A workshop will be held 23-24 August 2004 at the National Science
> Foundation (NSF) to encourage proposals from investigators who are new to
> the U.S. Antarctic Program. Staff of the Foundation's Office of Polar
> Programs (OPP), which funds and manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, will
> discuss:
> * Opportunities for NSF support of antarctic research and education
> * NSF's field program for operational support of antarctic research
> * Proposal preparation and proposal review criteria
> * NSF policies and other funding programs
> The workshop will include presentations and opportunities to meet with NSF
> antarctic program managers.
> Attendance will be limited to researchers who have not been a Principal
> Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on an NSF/OPP antarctic research
> grant and who are, or will be, eligible to apply for an NSF antarctic
> research grant by the 2 June 2005 proposal deadline for NSF Antarctic
> Research. Ph.D. candidates within 1 year of graduation, postdoctoral
> fellows, and new faculty are particularly encouraged to apply.
> Airline tickets for attendance at the workshop will be provided to a
> limited number of applicants who meet the requirements described in NSF
> 04-32 (<http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm>). All
> To apply:
> * Carefully review the description of the NSF Antarctic Research
> Program (NSF 04-559) at
> <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04559/nsf04559.htm> and NSF 04-32
> (<http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm>).
> * If you are interested in pursuing scientific research in the
> Antarctic, e-mail a letter of intent to NewInvestigatorAntarctic at nsf.gov
> <mailto:NewInvestigatorAntarctic at nsf.gov>, by midnight, EDT, June 15,
> 2004.
> * In one page or less, list your name, contact information, and your
> current academic status, including your graduation date. Also summarize
> your general research interests and your research plans.
> * State whether or not you are requesting an airline ticket, your
> airport of origin, and your requested destination (Baltimore-Washington,
> Reagan National or Washington-Dulles).
> Additional information, including the conference agenda, can be found on
> the NSF web site at
> <http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm>.
> Scott Borg
> Head, Antarctic Sciences Section
> Office of Polar Programs
> National Science Foundation
> Winifred Reuning
> Antarctic Sciences Section
> Office of Polar Programs
> National Science Foundation
> 703/292-8033
> wreuning at nsf.gov
>
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