{"id":1789,"date":"2008-01-10T15:55:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2008-01-10T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:55:41","slug":"emailing-those-responsible-for-science-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/10\/emailing-those-responsible-for-science-funding-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Emailing Those Responsible for Science Funding Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mad about the funding cuts in science? Why not send an letter<\/a> to those responsible?
\n
\nTaken from an letter just sent out to members of the American Physical Society:<\/p>\n

From: Arthur Bienenstock, President, the American Physical Society
\nTo: Members of the American Physical Society
\nRe: Federal Funding Alert: http:\/\/www.aps.org\/policy\/tools\/alerts
\nI am writing to request that you contact your elected representatives and let
\nthem know that the 2008 federal budget deals a devastating blow to basic
\nresearch. You can make this contact quickly and easily at:
\nhttp:\/\/www.aps.org\/policy\/tools\/alerts
\nThere, you will find pre-written messages to your Senators, Representatives
\nand President Bush. You may send these letters as they are, modify them, or
\nwrite your own. While individualizing your letter is not essential, please
\nat least make minor edits to the subject line and the first line of the text
\nof each email so that these emails are more individualized. (See webpage
\npointers below for further instruction.)
\nCongress wrapped up the Fiscal Year 2008 (FY08) budget just before adjourning
\nfor the year. The budget, which wipes out $1 billion in increases approved
\nlast summer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of
\nEnergy’s Office of Science (DOE Science) and the NIST laboratories, does
\nirreparable damage to science and abandons the Innovation\/Competitiveness
\ninitiatives of Congress and the Administration.
\nWhile DOE Science programs received a 2.5 percent increase overall (exclusive
\nof earmarks), they will decline by about one percent after inflation.
\nHigh-energy physics and fusion will feel the greatest pain. High energy
\nphysics will likely have to eliminate hundreds of jobs, halt work on both the
\nNOvA, the next step in neutrino physics at FermiLab and partially furlough
\nmany remaining employees. The Omnibus bill for FY08 also stopped R&D on the
\nInternational Linear Collider project, an international high-precision step
\nbeyond the Large Hadron Collider, and zeroed out the U.S. contribution to the
\ninternational ITER project, designed to demonstrate the scientific and
\ntechnological feasibility of fusion energy. These actions are severely
\ndamaging to the U.S. standing in the international scientific community.
\nThe NSF, with only a 1.2 percent increase for Research and Related
\nActivities, will lose almost three percent in level of effort after
\ninflation is taken into account. Moreover, with new facility projects coming
\nonline, their administrative costs will have to be paid out of the research
\naccounts. As a result, university proposal funding rates will inevitably
\nfall.
\nThe request in the attached letters is to restore that funding in an FY08
\nsupplemental appropriations bill, and to support the FY09 budget at the levels
\nauthorized in the COMPETES act, efforts that the APS Washington Office are
\npursuing with both Congress and the Administration.
\nWEBPAGE POINTERS:
\n(1) While individualizing your letter is not essential, we ask that you make
\nminor edits to the subject line and the first line of the text of each email.
\n(2) If you are a government employee, please do not use government resources
\nto send a communication.
\n(3) Your browser will take you to a page where you will enter your name and
\naddress.
\n(4) After entering your address, click the “Edit\/Send Email button.” A
\nwindow with an individual email message to the four offices will appear.
\nClick “Send Emails” to transmit the communication.
\n(5) Electronic submission is preferred.
\n(6) For further help, write to opa[[at]]aps.org.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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