Transcript American Recovery & Reinvestment Act

Unidata Policy Committee
Meeting
October 15, 2009
Boulder, CO
Topics
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ARRA Funds and Challenges
NSF Budget Request Priorities
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Future Staff Changes in the AGS Division
DOE
OS
+3.9%
(ARRA
$1.6
Billion)
EPA
+38%
(ARRA $7.2 Billion)
DOE
EERE
+6.4%
(ARRA $16.8
Billion)
NOAA
+2.5%
NASA
+5%
(ARRA
830
Million)
(ARRA $1
Billion)
FY 2010 President’s Request compared to FY 2009 enacted
ARRA = American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
NSF
+8.5%
(ARRA $3
Billion)
Source: NSF FY2010 Budget Request to Congress
American Recovery &
Reinvestment Act
Reporting and Accountability Requirements
• OMB expectations for accountability &
transparency for agencies and recipients
• Higher scrutiny from;
Administration;
Congress;
Public;
Recovery Act Accountability &
Transparency Board; and
NSF Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
FY2009 & 2010 Budgets: $4.46 Billion
– Development of a Climate Services System
– Research to Inform Adaptation
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Integrated Earth-system analysis
State of the Atmosphere record
End-to-end hydrologic projection and application
Carbon-cycle in high-latitudes
Aerosol forcing & feedback quantification
Role of Non-CO2 GHG, water vapor and clouds
Abrupt climate change
Climate change impact on ecological systems
Ecological forecasting
Expect that CCSP scope, composition and responsibilities will
be revisited and reauthorized by Congress
All 21 of Synthesis and Assessment publications
completed
Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate
Change Impacts in the United States
• Summarizes climate change science, current and future impacts, integrates
those results from those around the world.
Expect that CCSP scope, composition and responsibilities will
be revisited and reauthorized by Congress
All 21 of Synthesis and Assessment publications
completed
Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate
Change Impacts in the United States
• Summarizes climate change science, current and future impacts, integrates
those results from those around the world.
NSF's FY 2010 Budget Request is $7.045
billion, an increase of $555 million (8.5
percent).
Focus on Climate Change:
• New Climate Change Education Program
($10.0 million in FY 2009 and FY 2010);
• Increase for NSF contribution to the Climate
Change Science Program (36.6 percent
increase to $299.91 million); and
• New NSF-wide focus on Climate Research.
Improve American Competitiveness through investments in science and technology to
foster economic growth; improve the quality of life; and strengthen our national
security.
Support researchers at the beginning of their careers through NSF's Graduate Research
Fellowship and Faculty Early Career Development programs.
Educate science and engineering technicians through the Advanced Technological
Education program, which focuses on two-year colleges
Encourage promising high-risk research that could fundamentally alter our
understanding of nature, revolutionize fields of science, and lead to radically new
technologies.
Make climate change research and education a priority. To predict future
environmental conditions and to develop strategies for responding to global
environmental change. Establish a climate change education program to help develop
the next generation of environmentally engaged scientists and engineers.
Integrated scientific-societal issues
Interactions among the climate, human, and
environmental systems
U.S. climate observing system including
physical, biological, and social observations
Coupled Earth system models
Adaptation
Modeling , scaling,
complexity
Geosciences
Fundamental research
Biological Sciences
Environmental
observation
Office of Polar Programs
Adaptation
Education and human
Research
AGS Future Personnel Changes
• The search for AGS Division Director is
ongoing
• Clifford Jacobs detailed to OPP
• Steve Nelson is still Acting Section Head
for ULAFOS
• Jay Fein’s replacement is being sought
• Brad Smull is the new PDMP Manager
Questions or Comments