With traditional sources of science news facing big challenges, it's great that the government's
lead science agency is producing illuminating packages on the work it supports.
The post offers a breakdown of the 2016 budgets for
most science agencies and a list of stories to get readers caught up on the major issues.
He also charged the federal government's top
science agency with ignoring the growing research making that link.
Changes in the discretionary budget have a big influence
on science agencies, as it all tends to move up or down together to varying degrees.
The budget released today is often scant on details, including how cuts to
various science agencies will be distributed.
With several other university organizations and
state science agencies, she also just helped to organize and host a science communication workshop on campus that drew over 200 people.
This means that although the release comes from a prestigious
government science agency, the work needs a publicity before publication caution label.
David Westcott, an evolutionary biologist at CSIRO, Australia's
national science agency in Atherton, Queensland, calls this «wonderful work».
A two - year spending package, passed by Congress in the wee hours of February 9 and signed into law by President Trump hours later, could add to the coffers of
U.S. science agencies.
The decision to gut Australia's government
science agency of climate research may seem hard to fathom.
The House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee today scaled back proposed funding levels for three
key science agencies as part of its reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act.
She suggested that the directorate follow the example of
other science agencies like the National Science Foundation in giving out grants, and «that funds be awarded on a competitive basis based on scientific peer review except in cases when that is clearly not feasible.»
-- snip — The Trump administration is seeking to slash the budget of one of the government's premier
climate science agencies by 17 percent, delivering steep cuts to research funding and satellite programs, according to a four - page budget memo obtained by The Washington Post.
A Senate spending panel voted today to reduce funding in 2018 below current levels for
several science agencies under its jurisdiction.
The Global Research Council (GRC), comprised of the leaders of publicly
funded science agencies from about 50 nations, also released its first work product, a common set of principles that frame how funders should review and choose the most worthy research projects.
Movements
in science agency budgets tend to reflect what's happening with the overall discretionary budget.
Lankford, however, apparently doesn't intend for the troubling provisions — which could reveal proprietary information or the identities of grant reviewers — to apply to grants from
science agencies such as NSF and the National Institutes of Health.
The team around Bösenberg, which also includes researchers from the University of Giessen, from the University of Hamburg and from Australia's national
science agency CSIRO, studied the negative electrodes of this LiNi0.5 Mn1.5 O4 compound at PETRA III's X-ray microfocus beamline P06.
That money could come from other
US science agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, or from private sources.
The only real winner
among science agencies was NASA, which received a 4.5 percent hike — $ 16.1 billion — to be spread thin over such big - money projects as resuming the shuttle, completing the International Space Station, and sending humans to Mars.
Section 303 of FIRST required that NSF and other
science agencies make papers accepted by a peer - reviewed journal freely available within 24 months with the possibility of extending that to 3 years.
Frank Wolf (Republican, Virginia), the congressman who chairs the subcommittee that funds
science agencies including the OSTP and NASA, inserted the ban into a spending bill that was passed last spring.
Competing for scarce funds with a myriad of other money - strapped domestic agencies, the civilian
science agencies face the likelihood of budget cuts, some quite substantial.
They say that federal
science agencies already go to great lengths to make their peer - review system transparent, to attract fresh reviewers, and to provide plenty of feedback to those whose proposals are not funded.
On 6 July, the newly elected government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented its first budget, which
grants science agencies a roughly 12 % increase over last year.
In an easygoing confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Reilly repeatedly reassured lawmakers that he would protect the integrity of what one senator termed the Interior Department's «
premier science agency.»
We collaborate with leading
science agencies from around the world including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and University of Washington in the US, the Met Office Hadley Centre and Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK, the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, and the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology, the State Oceanic Administration and Chinese Academy of Science in China, among others.
While the National Institutes of Health wins congressional support and funding increases, other vital
science agencies don't get the same respect.
But with the budget boosts for federal
science agencies provided by 2009's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act drying up in 2011, science advocates are concerned that Obama's funding freeze may spell the steep budgetary drop - off in the next fiscal year that many dread.Image: US Senate»
The White House budget plan would also make major changes to a long - troubled environmental satellite program designed to provide weather and climate information to the military and
civilian science agencies.
If science agencies» funding returns to pre-stimulus levels or something close, then what happens to all those postdocs, technicians, and students hired for the interim?
The 4 % increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Alexandria, Virginia, in the 2018 omnibus spending bill hammered out by congressional leaders this week may be modest next to what its peer
science agencies received.
As Nature detailed last week, one Italian
science agency recently sent out a call for stem cell grant proposals but specifically excluded human ES cell research, leading three Italian scientists to sue the government.
Researchers from Australia's leading
marine science agency respond to criticism by two academics that doubts much of their work
This, despite harassment by
formal science agencies, like the Royal Society, and deliberate neglect by the mainstream -LSB-...]
Raising the spending caps does not automatically
mean science agencies will now get a spending increase: Congress still needs to agree on a catch - all omnibus appropriations bill that reflects this new higher spending level, and lays out funding for individual agencies and programs.
This all matters for science funding because discretionary spending and R&D tend to move hand - in - hand: individual agencies may fare better or worse in different years, but the discretionary budget is essentially the center of gravity around
which science agencies cluster, fiscally speaking (see chart at right, for instance).
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Level Science Agency Publishes Response to «Completely Unwarranted» Attacks from Climate Deniers
In the final months of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment reporting in 2007, the world's three leading climate
science agencies asked people directly and intimately involved with the report for their views on how the process had gone and some of the key issues it raised.
One of the benefits of working for NASA is that the enormous range of
science the agency covers — from satellite records for the present day, to exoplanet climates, from early Mars and deep time on Earth to the far future — and the opportunity to think «big».
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