NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) was begun by congressional mandate in 2010 to develop methods for assessing the greenhouse gas emissions from forests and other natural carbon stocks. (sciencemag.org)
The dilemma stems from a 2005 congressional mandate directing NASA to log 90 percent of the estimated 20,000 NEOs larger than 140 meters in diameter by 2020. (scientificamerican.com)
Shanahan also was a member of the National Reading Panel, the group of reading experts chosen by congressional mandate that published an exacting report in 2000 evaluating decades of research on reading instruction. (educationnext.org)