Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal science agencies»

Despite some grumbling, today's NSF announcement marks a milestone: It means that essentially all of the major U.S. federal science agencies now have a public - access policy.

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Ordinarily, researchers in the U.S. apply for federal grants through agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The day - long event was organized by the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy and drew more than 200 people, including representatives from the U.S. State Department and other federal agencies, as well as leaders from UNESCO and The World Academy of Sciences in Trieste, Italy, and the Costa Rican ambassador to the United States.

But amid this governmental turmoil, another, longer - term development is under way that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.S. and take its toll on others around the world — the loss of critical expertise and capacity in the science agencies of the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among many others.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

A 1990 law, known as the Global Change Research Act, requires federal agencies to provide an overview of the latest climate science and a thorough review of the impact of climate change throughout the U.S. to the president and the Congress every four years.

««In my personal opinion, the COMPETES bill as it now stands is bad for science, it's bad for scientists and engineers, bad for the federal science agencies, and damaging to the world - leading U.S. scientific enterprise,» Holdren told the Washington, D.C., audience.»

U.S. federal agencies have taken the lead in funding research in computational neuroscience, and the majority of government funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

In addition to his commitment to updating federal chemical safety regulations, Dooley has led efforts urging Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure the best available science and technology are at the foundation of government science and risk assessment programs.

2009 IATF Final Report A Report of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science & Technology (JSOST)-- «Addressing the Effects of Human - Generated Sound on Marine Life: An Integrated Research Plan for U.S. Federal Agencies».

Criss gave a preview of his paper, published later in the Journal of Earth Science, arguing that the statistical methods used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to define flood risk are outdated.

Established by Congress in 1977, the multiagency program is led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Geological Survey.

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) today announced the release of the report «Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations,» the 10th in a series of 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAPs) managed by U.S. federal agencies.

The National Science Foundation and U.S. federal agencies could spur innovation with investments in transparent research programs on carbon dioxide removal and reliable sequestration.