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 Electronic Announcement #137 -- May 2004
[Mailed from aas.org at 10:30am 12 MAY 2004]
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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 Electronic Announcement #136 -- April 2004
[Mailed from aas.org at 11:15am 14 APRIL 2004]
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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 Electronic Announcement #135 -- March 2004
[Mailed from aas.org at 12:15pm 09 MARCH 2004]
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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.)
AAS Electronic Announcement #134 -- February 2004
[Mailed from aas.org at 3:00pm 10 FEBRUARY 2004]
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1. PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION
AAS Electronic Announcement #133 -- January 2004
[Mailed from aas.org at 2:15pm 14 JANUARY 2004]
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1. LAST CALL: 2004 MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
AAS Electronic Announcement #132 -- December 2003
[Mailed from aas.org at 9:15am 11 DECEMBER 2003]
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AAS Electronic Announcement #131 -- November 2003
[Mailed from aas.org at 10:45am 10 NOVEMBER 2003]
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AAS ACTION ALERT 2003-06
[Mailed to US members from aas.org at 10:15am 20 OCTOBER 2003]
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The American Institute of Physics, in partnership with many of its member societies is asking that members in Texas consider signing on to the letter given below.
Kevin B. Marvel
Deputy Executive Officer
American Astronomical Society
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Here is the request for action from the AIP:
AAS Electronic Announcement #130 -- October 2003
[Mailed from aas.org at 12:00am 03 OCTOBER 2003]
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AAS ACTION ALERT 2003-05
[Mailed to US members from aas.org at 10:30am
23 SEPTEMBER 2003]
AAS ACTION ALERT 2003-05
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Senate Appropriations Committee Votes to Eliminate the Space Environment Center
AAS Electronic Announcement #129 -- September 2003
[Mailed from aas.org at 10:30am 03 SEPTEMBER 2003]
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AAS ACTION ALERT 2003-04
Take Action by: August 26, 2003
SUMMARY
AAS members in New Mexico are encouraged to contact the state board of education in support of the about to be approved science curriculum.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2003-03
Act By: September 1, 2003
SUMMARY
The Space Environment Center operated by NOAA received a severe cut to its budget in the Omnibus appropriations bill of FY2003 and this cut has not been restored in the House Appropriations Bill for FY2004. Members are asked to contact their Senators to help address this issue.
BACKGROUND
AAS ACTION ALERT 2003-02
SUMMARY
This action alert requests AAS members to write to the chair and ranking member of the Senate Veteran’s Administration-Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies (VA-HUD-IA) Appropriations Subcommittee requesting that funding be provided to meet the President’s ambitious goal of doubling the NSF budget.
BACKGROUND AND SITUATION