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Doctors, administrators say sequester cuts will affect research...
2013-06-22 02:34:53| Biotech - Topix.net
Andrew Kraft, left, director of MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, and Chris Hansen, right, president of American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network, held a press conference Friday about how federal sequestration cuts threaten cancer research.
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NOAA weather-monitoring program hit by sequester cuts
2013-06-11 22:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is trying to figure out how to meet sequester cuts demanded by Congress - without upsetting Congress by furloughing the agency`s weather forecasters. One proposed solution might sound fine if you just want to know what the weather will be like tomorrow, but it`s not so fine if you care about improving the accuracy of such forecasts in the coming years. An earlier proposal from NOAA that would have required employees of the National Weather...
Arctic drilling: Coast Guard monitoring, enforcement feel pinch of sequester
2013-05-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnergyWire: The Coast Guard is cutting back its Arctic operations this summer to meet the across-the-board federal budget cuts imposed by Congress under sequestration. Coast Guard officials are completing plans for a scaled-back Arctic monitoring and enforcement program, which might be based out of Kotzebue along Alaska's northwestern coast. Because of budget cuts, the Arctic Shield 2013 program is likely to be conducted during July and September only. Last year's operations, which ran through the four-month...
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The Sequester, DARPA, And The New Reality For U.S. Defense R&D
2013-05-07 17:12:14| rfglobalnet News Articles
Sequestration was the dominant theme at SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing (DSS) 2013 in Baltimore last week. Talk of U.S. budget cuts and their impact on the defense industry was almost omnipresent during the event, starting with Monday’s plenary keynote address by DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar, who explained how the agency will approach the development of new military capabilities amidst both fiscal and threat uncertainties.
Sequester Hits Nation's Climate Change Research Capability
2013-05-01 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When Renee McPherson took on the role of director of research at the South Central Climate Science Center last year, she had no idea that shed soon be grappling with budget cuts that threatened her ability to support regional climate research or hire new graduate students and faculty--the premise of hosting the center in the first place. The facility McPherson runs out of the University of Oklahoma is among eight centers created between 2010 and 2012 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)....
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