Public Policy Tag Definition: Relates to Public Policy, agencies, budgets, Congress, etc.
Kevin B. Marvel, Executive Officer
Dear Fellow AAS Members,
I am writing on behalf of a young female AAS member who has received a prestigious National Academy of Sciences fellowship, the Christine Mirzayan Fellowship. Participants learn about the public policy process and have an extensive period of training, including seminars with key policymakers and visits to the Hill and other agencies. Astronomers rarely have secured places in this program.
L. Jeremy Richardson, John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow Kevin B.
Marvel, Executive Officer
Subject: Help AAS advocate for NSF funding on 18 & 19 September
The AAS is seeking volunteers to lobby Congress on the issue of increased NSF funding on 18 & 19 September. The reason for this multidisciplinary effort is to make a final push for FY 2008 NSF Appropriations.
This Informational Email is being distributed to AAS members as a community service. The contents were written by Alan Stern and Jon Morse and approved by them for broad release to the community. The AAS President and Executive Officer approve such occasional releases to the community.
New NASA Explorer AO
Alan Stern & Jon Morse, NASA Headquarters
Early this fall, NASAs Science Mission Directorate (SMD) will release a new Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Principal Investigator (PI) led Explorer missions.
AAS Action Alert 2007-01
[Mailed from aas.org 21 May 2007]
Senate Amendment to Increase NASA Funding
L. Jeremy Richardson
John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow
richardsonlj at aas.org
SUMMARY
AAS Informational Email 2007-10
America COMPETES Act and NSF Authorization
L. Jeremy Richardson
John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow
Two recent Congressional actions have direct bearing on the scientific community, and on the astronomy community in particular. Both are authorization bills, meaning no money is appropriated, but they indicate that scientific research and innovation are on the minds of many Members of Congress.
America COMPETES Act
AAS Informational Email 2007-09
May 4, 2007
Dear Colleagues:
I wrote to you just before the Seattle meeting that we were reconsidering the publishers of our journals, the Astrophysical Journal the main Journal, the Letters, and the Supplements and the Astronomical Journal. We have since had a short, intense, and very professional process to issue a Request for Proposals to publish our Journals, to evaluate the proposals, and to select a vendor.
AAS Informational Email 2007-08
Jeremy Richardson, AAS John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow
Kevin Marvel, AAS Executive Officer
Jack Burns, CAPP Chair
AAS Informational Email 2007-07
Sent on behalf of the NSF-AST, Wayne Van Citters, Director
Exoplanet Taskforce White Papers Due April 2
Ask your Representative to Co-Sign the Ehlers-Holt NSF Letter to House Appropriators
Jack O. Burns, Chair Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy
and
Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Summary
Congressmen Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) and Rush Holt (D-NJ) have written a letter to the appropriations committee responsible for funding NSF, the Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice and Commerce, asking that they provide $6.02B for NSF, as proposed by the President.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2005-02
David Black, Chair of the AAS Committee on Astronomy and
Public Policy and
Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Write to Chairman Wolf in Support of Basic Research Budget Tripling
The American Astronomical Society released a statement today (included in whole below and available at the AAS website decrying the recently announced cuts to NASA astrophysics funding.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2005-01
Mailed to US members from aas.org at 12:50pm 12 APRIL 2005]
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AAS ACTION ALERT 2005-1
David Black, Chair of AAS Committee on Astronomy and
Public Policy and
Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Today the American Astronomical Society, the major professional organization for professional astronomy and space science researchers in the United States, released a policy statement on the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-06
Mailed to US members from aas.org at 9:00am 02 AUGUST 2004] ___________________________________________________________
David Black, Chair, Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy
and
Kevin Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
SUBJECT
AAS Members Need to Write Congress to Prevent Cuts to NASA and NSF for FY 2005
SUMMARY
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-05
Mailed to US members from aas.org at 2:00pm 26 MAY 2004]
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AAS Action Alert 2004-5
Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Summary
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-04
[Mailed to US members from aas.org at 9:20am 10 MAY 2004]
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AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-4
Sidney Wolff, Chair of AAS Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy Roger Blandford, HEAD Chair and Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Summary
This Action Alert asks AAS members to contact their members of Congress in support of the NASA Explorer program, which received reduced funding levels in the President's FY 2005 budget proposal.
Background
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-03
[Mailed to US members from aas.org at 12.:40pm 29 MARCH 2004]
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From: Sidney Wolff, Chair, AAS Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics Roger Blandford, Chair, High Energy Astrophysics Division and Kevin B. Marvel, AAS Deputy Executive Officer
SUMMARY
This action alert calls on AAS members to contact their members of Congress to restore the cuts to the Beyond Einstein initiative called for by the President's FY 2005 budget.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-02
CORRECTION
Dear AAS Members,
In the most recently issued AAS Action Alert, the bill of interest for the Astronomy community is H. Res. 550, not H.R. 550. In addition, the URL listed in the Action Alert is incorrect.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-02
SUMMARY
This Action Alert asks AAS members to quickly contact their
member of Congress and ask that he or she sign on as a co-sponsor to H.Res. 550, a bill entitled "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives relating to the extraordinary contributions resulting from the Hubble Space Telescope to scientific research and education, and to the need to reconsider future service missions to the Hubble Space Telescope."
BACKGROUND
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-01
SUMMARY
This Action Alert calls upon AAS members to contact their members of congress to repair the cuts to the Sun-Earth Connection Division (SEC) of the Office of Space Science in the President's FY 2005 budget submission. (Subsequent Action Alerts will focus on other critical areas: SEU, explorer class missions, etc.)
