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Jack Fellows. UCAR Vice President jfellows@ucar.edu. Agenda Dimensions of the Budget Players How this really works Interesting Issues I dealt with while in the government How you can be involved. Background.
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Jack Fellows UCAR Vice President jfellows@ucar.edu • Agenda • Dimensions of the Budget • Players • How this really works • Interesting Issues I dealt with while in the government • How you can be involved.
Background • 1983 PhD in Civil Engineering – parametrizing continental scale watershed models with remotely sensed data. • 1983-84 AGU Congressional Science Fellow • 1984-1997 OMB Science and Space Branch Chief • 1997- present: UCAR Vice President
Executive Office of the President(The Players) • White House Office: Rahm Emanuel • Council of Economic Advisers: Christina Romer • Office of Management and Budget: Peter Orszag • Domestic Policy Council: Melody Barnes • National Economic Council: Lawrence Summers • National Security Council: James Jones • Council on Environmental Quality: Nancy Sutley • Office of Science and Technology Policy: John Holdren • President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board: Paul Volcker • President's Intelligence Advisory Board: Chuck Hagel and David Boren • Office of National AIDS Policy: Jeff Crowley • Office of National Drug Control Policy: Gil Kerlikowske • Office of the Trade Representative: Ron Kirk • Office of Administration: Brad Kiley • White House Military Office: Vacant
Office of Management and Budget(Keeper of the President’s Policy)
R&D Budget Bush Sr Clinton Bush Jr Obama
Basic Research Clinton Bush Jr Obama
R&D Doubling Initiatives Bush Jr Obama
Interesting Issues(Why did I stay?) • Learning about incoming Administration policies • Space Shuttle and Space Station • Doubling of the NSF Budget • US Global Change Research Program • Political punishments
How can you be involved? • Congressional Science Fellowship – the ultimate civics lesson • Professional Societies – sign up for action alerts or Congressional Visits Day • Advocacy Activities
Transition Document Advice to the New Administration and Congress: Actions to Make our Nation Resilient to Severe Weather and Climate Change • Nine partners • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research • Weather Coalition • American Meteorological Society • American Geophysical Union • Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science • National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges • Consortium for Ocean Leadership • Alliance for Earth Observations • Reinsurance Association of America • Recommendations: • Observations. • Computing. • Research and Modeling. • Societal Relevance. • Leadership and Management. • Budget Resources: +$9B over the next five years based on community documents. • Community Nominations Collected www.ucar.edu/td Science is not Done!
Reorganizing the Federal climate enterprise in the NSTC and Earth Observations Committee