Informational Email 2008-12 - Local Congressional Visits Day
Marcos Huerta
John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow
huerta at aas.org
blog.aas.org

AAS Informational Email 2008-10
Marcos Huerta, John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow
huerta at aas.org

Last week, the House of Representatives and the White House reached a compromise supplemental funding bill that includes money for science. If this becomes law, it is a major victory for science groups, as the debate about the supplemental has focused on a variety of issues including education benefits for veterans, general controversy surrounding war funding, and presidential veto threats over the amount of domestic spending in the bill.

Marcos Huerta
John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow
huerta at aas.org

The Louisiana Senate has approved a bill that would allow teachers to teach unscientific views on evolution, global warming, and other scientific subjects. The Senate bill has to be reconciled with a similar but slightly more scientifically acceptable bill in Louisiana's House.

From the National Center for Science Education:
www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2008/LA/396_louisiana_antievolution_bill_...

Louisiana antievolution bill passes Senate

AAS Informational Email 2008-07

The following message is being sent to AAS members and division affiliates as a service to the National Science Foundation because the information is highly relevant to our community. -- Kevin B. Marvel, Executive Officer

SUBJECT: Appointment of Dr. G. Wayne Van Citters, Senior Advisor, OAD/MPS and Dr. Craig Foltz as Acting Division Director, AST We are pleased to announce that Dr. Wayne Van Citters has accepted a new position as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Director, MPS. This appointment is effective April 14, 2008.

AAS Informational Email 2008-05

Kevin B. Marvel, Executive Officer

Subject: Sean Solomon to speak at Geological Society of Washington

This Informational Email is being sent as a courtesy to our DC, MD and VA members announcing a talk of an AAS member at an important Washington, DC institution, the Geological Society of Washington.

First Annual Bradley Lecture of the Geological Society of Washington

Dr. Sean C. Solomon, Director, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington

AAS Informational Email 2008-03

Subject: Top Level Summary of the President's Budget for FY 2009 for Astronomy

Kevin B. Marvel, Executive Officer

Summary: The President released the FY 2009 budget on Monday, February 4. The news for science is good. The American Competitiveness Initiative is supported and the poor appropriations provided for Congress are compensated for in the President's request. It is now the responsibility of the science community to convince Congress to either appropriate the requested amounts or improve upon these baseline numbers.

Subject: Appropriations Endgame

Kevin B. Marvel, Executive Officer
J. Craig Wheeler, AAS President
Jack Burns, Chair, AAS Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy (CAPP)

Summary

AAS Informational Email 2007-17

NSF Dear Colleague on the Senior Review

The following Dear Colleague letter from Wayne Van Citters, Director of the Division for Astronomical Sciences of the National Science Foundation is being

distributed to AAS members as a service to the NSF. The letter, in a variety of formats, is available at  www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07052

Kevin B. Marvel, Executive Officer

Forging the Future of Space Science

In September the Space Studies Board will kick off a yearlong series of public lectures and colloquia in cities across the country and abroad on the future of space and earth sciences. The first event will take place in Baltimore, Md., on 10 September 2007. Series topics include understanding the universe, global climate change, the cosmic origins of life, scientific exploration of the Moon and Mars, and the research and technology needed to support human spaceflight.

For more information, visit www.nationalacademies.org