Sentences with phrase «planetary science programs»

NASA would be slated for a modest boost, but that would largely be targeted to planetary science programs focused on the Solar System, with offsetting cuts to earth science.

In February, after the White House unveiled a 2012 - 13 NASA budget with more than $ 200 million in cuts to planetary science programs, Rep. Adam Schiff (D - Burbank) and NASA Director Charles Bolden met with JPL employees in La Cañada to discuss the future of the lab.

Hofstadter has taken part in various studies through the years that have investigated concepts for missions to Uranus which haven't been selected by the U.S. space agency to date, due to severe budget cuts to its planetary science programs.

NASA science programs — and in particular planetary science programs — would receive a funding boost under a proposed House of Representatives spending bill for fiscal year 2015.

Next week, President Barack Obama will propose a $ 300 million cut in NASA's planetary science programs as part of his 2013 request for the agency, ScienceInsider has learned.

That interest is reflected in his bill's generosity toward NASA's planetary sciences program, which would grow by 19 %, to $ 2.1 billion.

The Administration's decision to cut funding for NASA's planetary science program, especially the decision to not participate in what was planned as NASA - European Space Agency joint missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018 — was also mentioned.

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The program brings together researchers from Earth science, planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics, to pursue specific goals that support the larger pursuit of looking for alien life.

That lesson is not lost on the wider planetary science community, which sees the program as crucial for establishing both winners and losers in the high - stakes game of interplanetary exploration.

Mars Attacked: Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations over Proposed Budget Cuts The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations over Proposed Budget Cuts The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars explorers

Also within planetary science, the bill boosts the budget of the low - cost, competitive Discovery program to $ 189 million, which is a good sign that the agency will be able to get on to a faster path with its launches.

«Because the workload on the scientific community and NASA Program officers has increased substantially in the last decade with regard to proposal preparation, review, and implementation, the Planetary Science Division should consider consolidating programs to eliminate overlap as a part of the portfolio management strategy.»

NASA / JPL - Caltech / Cornell University THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Planetary scientists, usually an affable lot, are plenty riled up at the moment.The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars ePlanetary scientists, usually an affable lot, are plenty riled up at the moment.The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars eplanetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars explorers.

This allows NASA to maintain critical momentum in rebuilding its planetary exploration program, preserve its Earth science missions, and to begin work on the next generation of space telescopes.

Coauthor Eli Silver, professor emeritus of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, and others in the CRISP program decided to pursue a 3 - D seismic study, which must precede any deep drilling, and the project was funded by the National Science Foundation in 2009.

The Planetary Society has been developing an education program and taking time to find where we can make solid contributions to science and technology education.

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However, the bill also requires the National Research Council (NRC) to certify that the new Mars program will lead to accomplishment of a Mars sample return mission as dictated by the recent NRC Decadal Survey for planetary science or the money will be reallocated to study Jupiter's moon Europa.

Dad may not be able to go to Mars himself this year, but his name can be put on the first ever public naming effort for Mars, and he'll know that it'll be going to Mars when Mars One launches its first lander mission in 2018,» said Alan Stern, Ph.D., planetary scientist, and founder and CEO of Uwingu; Stern formerly directed all science programs and missions at NASA.

The goal for MAVEN's informal education program is that informal science educators are equipped with the necessary tools to engage Native American youth, girls, or the public in understanding relevant aspects of MAVEN and the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.

My first experience with planetary science education came as a graduate student at the University of Arizona, where I was a member of the E / PO program for the Mars Phoenix mission.

Prior to joining the Obama administration Dr. Holdren was Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, as well as professor in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the independent, nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center.

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The work is funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA's Outer Planets Research and Planetary Geology and Geophysics Programs.

Drake also led a major undergraduate teaching effort in planetary sciences, even though the department was created as a graduate program.

Dawn is a planetary space science mission funded by NASA's Discovery Program.

Each decade, the community reviews the current state of the disciplines of astronomy and astrophysics, planetary science, and heliophysics and produces a prioritized list of projects, programs and initiatives important for scientific progress in the coming decade.

The school is sponsored by Center for Planetary Science (CPS) under the MEXT Global COE Program: «Foundation of International Center for Planetary Science», a joint project between Kobe University and Hokkaido University.

This work was supported in part by the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program, and the NASA Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division.

MyMoon Program Evaluation: In partnership with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute, SEDL evaluated a new online website, MyMoon: The Public's Portal to Lunar Science Exploration Through New Media.

Thomas Homer - Dixon Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto Feng Hsu Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Mark Jacobson Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University David Keith Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary Geoffrey Landis Glenn Research Center, NASA Jane C. S. Long hydrogeologist and geotechnical engineer Michael MacCracken Climate Institute, Washington, DC John C. Mankins Sunsat Energy Council / Managed Energy Technologies Michael E. Mann Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University Gregg Marland International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Mark Nelson Institute of Ecotechnics, Santa Fe, NM Darel Preble Space Solar Power Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology Gregory H. Rau Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Steve Rayner Said Business School, Oxford, UK Kim Stanley Robinson Author, «Forty Signs of Rain» Gregory Dennis Sachs Alternative Power Program, US Merchant Marine Academy Thomas Schelling (Nobel laureate) Department of Economics, University of Maryland Michael Schlesinger Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Steven E. Schwartz Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Energy John Turner National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy Tyler Volk Department of Biology, New York University Tom M. L. Wigley National Center for Atmospheric Research Steven C. Wofsy School of Engineering and Applied Science / Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University Lowell Wood Hoover Institution / Stanford University

This comes two years after the U.S. National Research Council's Planetary Science Decadal Review put out its 10 - year recommendation for NASA's planetary explorationPlanetary Science Decadal Review put out its 10 - year recommendation for NASA's planetary explorationplanetary exploration program.