[DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 11/23/04
Susan Weiler
weilercs at whitman.edu
Tue Nov 23 16:45:38 CST 2004
DIALOG and Disccrs News
11/23/04
RESOURCES
Congress Passes Omnibus Budget Bill Funding NSF,
NASA, NOAA, USGS, Energy, EPA
Advice on Designing a Good Poster
Great Workshops for New Academic Faculty
NEWS
Research on warmer sea water runs hot and cold in California
FORUM
NSF Director talks on "The Conduct of Science is Not What It Used to Be"
JOBS
Graduate-Student Opportunity at U. Georgia
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Resources
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Congress Passes Omnibus Budget Bill Funding NSF,
NASA, NOAA, USGS, Energy, EPA
From AGU ASLA 04-25
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"The nine appropriations bills that are wrapped into this early Thanksgiving
turkey should have been dealt with by the House months ago," said
Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, senior Democrat on the
Appropriations Committee. Obey's quote referred to the omnibus, a
gigantic appropriations bill passed by the House of Representatives and
then by the Senate in the evening hours of 20 November.
An omnibus bill is designed to cover many separate but related items. In
this case, the omnibus (H.R. 4818) combines all the appropriation bills for
fiscal year 2005 that Congress failed to pass individually. In addition to
budget reductions for several agencies that fund science, all agencies
covered in the omnibus bill are subject to an additional 0.80 percent cut
agreed to by Congress and the Administration.
Following are some of the individual agency appropriations for FY2005.
Please note that all FY2005 numbers given are before the 0.80 percent cut.
The National Science Foundation budget was cut by $61 million compared
to FY2004, to $5.5 billion. Within NSF, Research and Related Activities
saw a $3 million increase to $4.255 billion, and Major Research Equipment
and Facilities received an increase of $20 million to $175.5 million.
Education and Human Resources was cut by $90 million, from $938
million to $848 million.
The biggest winner among earth and space science funding agencies in the
omnibus was NASA. The agency requested $16.2 billion for FY 2005, and
was appropriated exactly that. This represents an $822 million increase
from FY 2004. The budget is designed to return the space shuttles to flight,
begin the process of replacing Columbia, and to further the plans for Moon
and Mars missions laid out by President Bush in January 2004.
The Commerce Department would receive $6.7 billion, of which $3.94
billion would go to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA will be hit by an additional 0.54 percent cut beyond the 0.80
imposed across the board, as will all other Commerce, State, and Judiciary
Department offices and programs.
The US Geological Survey received an $11 million increase over FY 2004
for a total of $949 million. Elsewhere in the Interior Department, the
Bureau of Reclamation would get $1 billion, an increase of $40 million
over last year, while Interior's Fossil Energy R&D program was cut by $93
million to $580 million.
The Department of Energy would receive $23 billion overall, nearly
matching the president's FY 2005 request. Congress provides $577 million
for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the same amount as
FY2004.
DOE's Office of Science received an increase of emerged from the budget
process a modest winner with $3.6 billion, up from $3.45 billion for FY
2004. The Office's programs in high energy physics, fusion research,
nuclear physics, computing research, and basic energy sciences would all
receive modest increases.
The Environmental Protection Agency will receive $8.1 billion this year, a
$278 million reduction from FY 2004 funding levels. The majority of the
EPA cuts are targeted at grants and loans for state and local water projects.
With the exception of NASA, most agencies funding Earth and space
sciences face flat or declining budgets, with inflation factored in. The
National Institutes of Health, by contrast, will receive $28.5 billion in
FY2004, an increase of $849 million over 2004. By way of comparison,
the increase in funding alone for NIH this year represents 90% of the total
USGS budget.
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Author: Brad Keelor, AGU
Sources: New York Times, Congressional Quarterly, AAAS, National
Science Foundation, US House of Representatives Republican Conference
Questions or comments about ASLA? Need to change your e-mail
address? Contact Peter Folger (pfolger at agu.org). To read previous
ASLAs, visit http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/sci_pol.html
Advice on Designing a good Poster
There are a lot of "how to make a good poster" sites out there, but I
found this one more helpful than most and rather amusing. Thought
I'd pass it along.
Submitted by Karen Stocks
<http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm>http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
GREAT WORKSHOPS FOR NEW ACADEMIC FACULTY
We'd like to announce the 2004-2005 Cutting Edge workshop series.
The workshops are listed below. More information about each workshop
(including the on-line application form and the application
DEADLINES) is given on the Cutting Edge website Most workshops are
intended for faculty; the one on preparing for an academic career is
intended for graduate students and post-docs.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops
Also, we encourage you to recommend workshop topics for the
2005-2006 program at
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/topic.html The deadline for
submitting your suggestions is Dec 27, 2004
Finally, if you haven't done so, check out our topical resources
drawn from previous workshops
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/topics/index.html
WORKSHOPS
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/current_workshops/index.html
Understanding What Our Geoscience Students are Learning:
Observing and Assessing (emerging theme workshop), May 12-14,
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences,
May 23-June 23 (on-line workshop), June 1-5, 2005, Georgia Southern
University, Statesboro, GA
Early Career Faculty in the Geosciences Workshop: Teaching,
Research, and Managing Your Career, June 8-12, 2005, with optional
trip to NSF on June 13, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Teaching About the Ocean System Using New Research Technique:
Data, Models, and Visualizations (emerging theme workshop), July 6-9,
2005, University of Washington, Seattle
Teaching Hydrogeology in the 21st Century, July 23-28, 2005,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln note date change)
A WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences, July 21-24,
2005, Pennsylvania State University
Heather Macdonald
Department of Geology
College of William and Mary
757-221-2443
fax: 757-221-2093
rhmacd at wm.edu
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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
RESEARCH ON WARMER SEAWATER RUNS HOT AND COLD IN CALIFORNIA
from San Francisco Chronicle
As the world's climate continues warming, drastic changes are inevitable in
the lives of all the plants and animals that live in the oceans and along
their margins.
Scientists may try to predict the future of ocean life by observing changes
that have already occurred as sea temperatures rise, and by experiments
that seek to model the impact of limited warming events -- but results so
far have proved confusing at best and conflicting at worst.
One ingenious experiment, for example, measured the effect of warm seawater
that has been flowing out of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San
Luis Obispo for nearly 20 years. It showed that the warming dramatically
changed the lives of some 150 tiny marine animals and different seaweeds
living in the rocky cove.
http://snipurl.com/at6a
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Forum
NSF Director talks on "The Conduct of Science is Not What It Used to Be"
On October 22, 2004, Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., Acting Director,
National Science Foundation gave a speech to the Philosophical
Society of Washington on " "The Conduct of Science Is Not What It
Used to Be." The link to his speech is
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/forum/bement/alb041022_philos.htm.
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings
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Jobs for PhDs
http://www.higheredjobs.com/about/
Graduate-Student Opportunity at U. Georgia
Ph.D. level graduate student positions to study the microbiology
and/or biogeochemistry of coastal Environments (Coastal Georgia/South
Carolina, Belize or Panama) or to work on microbiology and/or
biogeochemistry in extreme environments (hypersaline Mono Lake or
Gulf of Mexico cold seeps) are available in Dr. Mandy Joye's lab at
the University of Georgia. Students with field/lab experience
experience obtained either as an undergraduate or as an MSc student
will receive more serious consideration. A strong academic
background in chemistry, biology or microbiology is essential. While
experience with small boats and SCUBA is a plus, this is not
essential.
PhD-level graduate students in the Marine Sciences department
are supported by research or teaching assistantships for up to five
years.
Information about the Joye Research Group is available at:
http://www.marsci.uga.edu/FacultyPages/Joye/index.html
Information about the Marine Sciences department at UGA is available at:
http://www.marsci.uga.edu/
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Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948
Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961
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