Comments on: Senators to Bush on NCAR, but Miss the Target http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4515 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: TokyoTom http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4515&cpage=1#comment-10749 TokyoTom Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:15:02 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4515#comment-10749 Roger, thanks for the further information. Besides the NSF budget, couldn't the administration find other funds for the CCB? While I understand that Congress could appropriate more funds specifically for the CCB, are you sure that that process is "much easier" than for the President to tell a NSF grantee how to spend their funds (and that the latter is do something that he really can’t do)? Roger, thanks for the further information.

Besides the NSF budget, couldn’t the administration find other funds for the CCB?

While I understand that Congress could appropriate more funds specifically for the CCB, are you sure that that process is “much easier” than for the President to tell a NSF grantee how to spend their funds (and that the latter is do something that he really can’t do)?

]]> By: Roger Pielke, Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4515&cpage=1#comment-10738 Roger Pielke, Jr. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:53:07 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4515#comment-10738 Hi Tom- NCAR is funded under a 5-year cooperative agreement as a Federal Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) under a cooperative agreement with an organization called UCAR - the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. UCAR is thus the manager of the the NSF grant to fund NCAR. NCAR's budget comes from the ATM program in the GEO division of NSF and is thus subject to annual appropriations. NCAR employees are not government employees. NCAR has been base funded in this way since 1960. NCAR also receives other grant funds (soft money) as does UCAR. The NSFbase funds for NCAR are about $90M and the entire UCAR/NCAR effort has a budget of about $150M. Hi Tom-

NCAR is funded under a 5-year cooperative agreement as a Federal Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) under a cooperative agreement with an organization called UCAR – the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. UCAR is thus the manager of the the NSF grant to fund NCAR. NCAR’s budget comes from the ATM program in the GEO division of NSF and is thus subject to annual appropriations. NCAR employees are not government employees.

NCAR has been base funded in this way since 1960. NCAR also receives other grant funds (soft money) as does UCAR. The NSFbase funds for NCAR are about $90M and the entire UCAR/NCAR effort has a budget of about $150M.

]]> By: TokyoTom http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4515&cpage=1#comment-10733 TokyoTom Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:04:19 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4515#comment-10733 Roger, can you explain more about NCAR, how the NSF funds it or its activities, and whether the Administration has any other sources of funds that it can send Mickey's way, which appears to be the purpose of the Senators' letter? Roger, can you explain more about NCAR, how the NSF funds it or its activities, and whether the Administration has any other sources of funds that it can send Mickey’s way, which appears to be the purpose of the Senators’ letter?

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