The Bridge: Connecting Science and Policy

May 9, 2016

Funding Season is Open: Part 2

Welcome back for the next round of federal science funding reporting. As you may recall from last week’s post, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed two appropriations bills in April, and today we’ll be focusing on the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) spending bill – the bill that funds NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), among other agencies. We covered NASA last week, and this week we have the information on NOAA …

January 5, 2016

Science Communication, All Communication

Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Lindsay Barbieri, PhD Student, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources, University of Vermont At this year’s AGU Fall Meeting, I attended a session on “The Many Sides of Sharing Science: A How To,” which covered a wide variety of approaches to science communication. From children reviewing science papers, to comic book conventions, to …

December 31, 2015

Communicating Science Means Saving Lives

Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Emmanuel “Soli” Garcia, University of California San Diego My recollection of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991 is dim in quite a literal sense. I may not recall much from my early childhood, but I still have memories of how ash fell on my neighborhood in Manila just under 60 miles away. As dark …

December 30, 2015

“What Happens in the Arctic, Doesn’t Stay in the Arctic”

Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Andrés Sánchez, National Autonomous University of Mexico At AGU’s Fall Meeting this year I attended a session on “Exploring the Role of Arctic Science in Developing International Arctic Policy”. The session gave way to a very interesting morning, with people from all over the world and different points of view working towards the same …

December 29, 2015

Art and Emotions Can Unify Us – How About Science and Humanity?

Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Azie Sophia Aziz, PhD student in geophysics at the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Houston, Texas. “Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” – Henri Poincare At the AGU Fall …

December 28, 2015

The Magic Ingredient for Linking Climate Resources to Community Resilience? It Might be Trust.

Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Lindsay Barbieri, PhD Student, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources, University of Vermont Regardless if you are engaging on the resource side or the community side, trust plays a critical role in building climate resilience. At this year’s AGU Fall Meeting, I attended a season on “Evolving the US Climate Resilience Toolkit to Support a …

December 23, 2015

What Does it Mean to Be a Geoscientist?

Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Emily Parker, Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, University of California, Irvine What does it mean to be a geoscientist? I did not know it was a question that needed answering – I thought it was a well-defined occupation. After attending an AGU Fall Meeting session focused specifically on what being a geoscientist means, however, …

December 21, 2015

From Flood Research to Resilience Mapping

Today’s post is part of a series written by student bloggers from the AGU Fall Meeting. By: Jiawei Tao, Peking University Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population resides in its coastal counties. A detailed analysis on different types of hazards (floods, heavy storms, storm surge, etc.) and some long-term effects (such as sea level rise) are of vital importance in estimating vulnerability and potential impacts in the near-term as well …

December 17, 2015

Friend or Foe of Science? The FY 2016 Omnibus Appropriations Bill

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and in the spirit of giving, Congress just released an enormous $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the entire federal government for fiscal year 2016 (FY16). Since October 1st, when the fiscal year officially started, the federal government has been funded by a series of temporary funding bills – called continuing resolutions (CRs) – to give Congress time to compromise on …

November 2, 2015

Visiting My Legislators Was a Bit Like ‘The West Wing’

This blog post was written by Ryan J. Haupt, a paleoecologist working on his Ph.D. in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming. Ryan notes “I am not an expert in science policy but it is something I am deeply interested in it as a science communicator via my podcast and as a citizen reliant on the U.S. producing the cutting edge of scientific research.” Recently, I had the …