A Retreat to Plan Our Strategy for Policy Engagement
This guest post is by Committee on Astronomy & Public Policy (CAPP) Chair and past AAS President Prof. Debra Elmegreen, who recently led the committee's second-ever strategic retreat. — Josh...
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NSF Geosciences Advisory Committee Seeks Your Input
The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Directorate (GEO) Advisory Committee has recently been working on an update to its report advising the directorate on its goals and priorities over the...
View ArticleA District Visit with My Congressional Representative
This post is from Jason Steffen, the Lindheimer Fellow and a research professor at Northwestern University. Jason has worked for NASA's Kepler mission since 2008, studying the dynamics and...
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Interested in the Future of Science Education at NASA?
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has issued a draft of a Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) for its future science-education activities and requests comments submitted to CANsci-ed@hq.nasa.gov...
View ArticleThe CROmnibus Is Here with Strong Funding for NASA & NSF
UPDATE: The Senate passed the CRomnibus without changes from the House-passed version described below during a rare Saturday session on 13 December 2014. The government remains funded on a Continuing...
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Apply for My Job, the John N. Bahcall Public Policy Fellowship!
As anyone who's talked to me about my job knows, I've really enjoyed it. But all good things must come to an end. And so it is with my tenure as the AAS John N. Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, come...
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Where to Find AAS Policy at #aas225 in Seattle
Listen, I know that you're only coming to #aas225 in Seattle next week (4-8 January 2015) to see your friendly, neighborhood AAS policy team. And we're supremely flattered. I promise I won't tell...
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Why You Should Participate in CVD & Advocate for Astronomy
This guest post comes from Kelly Korreck, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory with a research focus on shock physics, solar instrumentation, and space weather. Kelly...
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The President's FY 2016 Budget Just Dropped
The President's Budget Request (PBR) dropped last Monday, 2 February, proposing some $4 trillion in total spending and a 7% increase to discretionary programs within that (if you aren't sure what this...
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An Early Introduction to Advocating for the Astronomical Sciences
This guest post comes from Ashley Tucker, an undergraduate at St. John's University in New York and a Society of Physics Students affiliate of the AAS.— Joel Parriott, AAS Director of Public PolicyFrom...
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The Effect of Realizing My Changing Goals
Allow me to introduce myself: I’m Heather Bloemhard, and I’m the new John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow. I also just finished my PhD in physics at New Mexico Tech. It seems that I have been headed for a...
View ArticleAn Update on the FY 2016 Budget Cycle
Back in February, President Obama released his budget request for FY 2016; you can read more about it in the earlier article “The President's FY 2016 Budget Just Dropped.” In the months since then, the...
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A Continuing Resolution to Start Fiscal Year 2016
The punchline: The government didn’t shut down. The continuing resolution (CR) sets funding levels at nearly FY 2015 levels — there is a ~0.2% cut across the board to keep everything under the budget...
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Tell Your Conference Story
The winter season of AAS conferences begins soon, with the 47th DPS meeting in mid-November, Extreme Solar Systems III in late November, and the 227th AAS meeting in early January. I don’t think that I...
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FY 2016: Are We There Yet?
Note: As things continue to develop over the next month or so I will be updating this post. Once appropriations have been signed I will do a separate post with the details of the appropriations. If...
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AAS Policy Sessions at #AAS227 in Kissimmee
The 227th AAS meeting in Kissimmee, Florida, is less than a month away. If you're like me, you're frantically planning your schedule, trying to figure out how you can attend as many workshops,...
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New K-12 Education Law Passed by Congress & Signed by President
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) became law on 10 December 2015. ESSA reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and includes a substantial rewrite of the No Child Left Behind...
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FY 2016 Omnibus Will Be Better for Some Disciplines than Others
You may have seen the recent headlines or tweets about the Omnibus spending bill. All the excitement is over the fact that the conference committee has finally finished negotiating the fiscal-year (FY)...
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Get Ready for Congressional Visits Day 2016
Every year the AAS brings volunteers to Washington, DC, to advocate for federal support of science with their members of Congress during Congressional Visits Day (CVD). This is part of a coordinated...
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A Recap of Policy-Related Sessions at the 227th AAS Meeting
Whether you attended the meeting in person, monitored the meeting via social media, neither of the above, or both, a lot happened at the 227th meeting of the AAS in Kissimmee, Florida. If I had to...
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