Sentences with phrase «scientists at federal agencies»

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Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

Actions taken by the Trump administration to stifle communications at federal agencies and to ban travel from select countries «have been deeply troubling» to many scientists, said AAAS President Barbara Schaal at an opening presentation of the AAAS Annual Meeting.

That was the message handed down by senior representatives of the federal agencies that fund much of the field's research in the U.S. during «town halls» with scientists here at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

As Congress develops public policy, I will continue to engage and seek counsel from our world class scientists and technicians working at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, and other federal agencies.

Regional agencies such as FAPESP play a very important role in Brazil, says Wanderley de Souza, a biomedical scientist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science.

As tissue and DNA samples are shared more widely than ever, scientists and federal agencies are looking more closely at their responsibilities to the research subjects.

Turner, a social scientist at City University of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

A periodic survey of U.S. federal scientists by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) caused a bit of a kerfuffle at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lscientists by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) caused a bit of a kerfuffle at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lScientists (UCS) caused a bit of a kerfuffle at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last month.

Ever wonder how you, as a politically savvy scientist or engineer, could get your foot in the door at a federal agency or Congress?

In particular, NSF is thinking about asking Congress for special hiring authority, a mechanism that would allow the agency to bring in senior scientists at salaries above what they can typically offer federal workers.

But the task of improving lower - value but still important crops — such as oats, potatoes, or forages for livestock — has been largely left to scientists at public universities and laboratories run by federal and state agencies.

Requested by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report draws on discussions at a two - day conference last spring that brought together scientists, officials from city and state governments, business leaders and representatives of federal agencies.

Finally, Nicholas Pinter, a Southern Illinois University scientist studying flooding disasters, says Obama should consider broader shifts in the budget and bureaucracy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which still is mainly focused on responding once a disaster has struck — with only 15 percent of its spending in such instances devoted to steps that can cut known vulnerability the next time around.

According to sources, the White House political block — a direct violation of numerous ethics regulations and possibly of federal laws — was instituted over the objections of scientists at the FDA, but with the awareness of HHS Secretary Sibelius, her senior adviser Andrea Palm and the Office of Science and Technology Policy and its director John Holdren, who is responsible for enforcing «science integrity» across government agencies...

As a part of this study, UCS sent surveys to 1,600 climate scientists at seven federal agencies and departments, to gauge the extent to which politics was playing a role in scientists» research.

At the same time, GAP conducted 40 in - depth interviews with federal climate scientists and other officials and analyzed thousands of pages of government documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and inside sources, regarding agency media policies and Congressional communications.

UCS» report laments scientists at public universities, research institutes, and federal agencies are subjected to demands for information under a variety of state open - records laws and the 1967 federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which was designed to hold government agencies accountable by providing the public with access to records from any federal agency.

By June 2001, Piltz had been a senior associate at the Coordination Office for the US Global Change Research Program for six years, responsible for editing and producing scientific reports written by federal climate scientists scattered over about a dozen agencies working on the problem.

Last week, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson asking her to maintain the current standard and saying the agency is not allowing «for full consideration of alternatives and review by expert scientist at other federal agencies.»