1. Unidata Policy Committee Meeting
October 15, 2009
Boulder, CO

2. Topics ARRA Funds and Challenges NSF Budget Request Priorities
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Future Staff Changes in the AGS Division

3. New Money for Science Agencies
EPA
+38%
(ARRA $7.2 Billion)
DOE OS
+3.9%
(ARRA $1.6 Billion)
DOE EERE
+6.4%
(ARRA $16.8 Billion)
NOAA
+2.5%
(ARRA 830 Million)
NSF
+8.5%
(ARRA $3 Billion)
NASA
+5%
(ARRA $1 Billion)
FY 2010 President’s Request compared to FY 2009 enacted
ARRA = American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

4. FY 2010 Budget Request to Congress
Source: NSF FY2010 Budget Request to Congress 4

6. American Recovery & Reinvestment Act
Reporting and Accountability Requirements
OMB expectations for accountability & transparency for agencies and recipients
Higher scrutiny from;
Administration;
Congress;
Public;
Recovery Act Accountability & Transparency Board; and
NSF Office of the Inspector General (OIG)

7. Climate Change Science Program (US Government-wide Coordinating Activity)
FY2009 & 2010 Budgets: $4.46 Billion
– Development of a Climate Services System
– Research to Inform Adaptation
Integrated Earth-system analysis
State of the Atmosphere record
End-to-end hydrologic projection and application
Carbon-cycle in high-latitudes
Aerosol forcing & feedback quantification
Role of Non-CO2 GHG, water vapor and clouds
Abrupt climate change
Climate change impact on ecological systems
Ecological forecasting

8. Climate Change Science Program
Expect that CCSP scope, composition and responsibilities will be revisited and reauthorized by Congress
All 21 of Synthesis and Assessment publications completed
Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Summarizes climate change science, current and future impacts, integrates those results from those around the world.

9. Climate Change Science Program
Expect that CCSP scope, composition and responsibilities will be revisited and reauthorized by Congress
All 21 of Synthesis and Assessment publications completed
Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Summarizes climate change science, current and future impacts, integrates those results from those around the world.

10. NSF’s Climate Research
Special Emphasis Area in the 2010 Budget
Strong Support by the Administration and Congress

11. FY 2010 Budget Request for NSF
NSF's FY 2010 Budget Request is $7.045 billion, an increase of $555 million (8.5 percent).
Focus on Climate Change:
New Climate Change Education Program ($10.0 million in FY 2009 and FY 2010);
Increase for NSF contribution to the Climate Change Science Program (36.6 percent increase to $ million); and
New NSF-wide focus on Climate Research.

12. NSF Requests $7B for FY 2010
Improve American Competitiveness through investments in science and technology to foster economic growth; improve the quality of life; and strengthen our national security.
Support researchers at the beginning of their careers through NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship and Faculty Early Career Development programs.
Educate science and engineering technicians through the Advanced Technological Education program, which focuses on two-year colleges
Encourage promising high-risk research that could fundamentally alter our understanding of nature, revolutionize fields of science, and lead to radically new technologies.
Make climate change research and education a priority. To predict future environmental conditions and to develop strategies for responding to global environmental change. Establish a climate change education program to help develop the next generation of environmentally engaged scientists and engineers.

13. NRC Recommendations for Restructuring Federal Climate Research
Integrated scientific-societal issues
Interactions among the climate, human, and environmental systems
U.S. climate observing system including physical, biological, and social observations
Coupled Earth system models
Adaptation 13

14. Major Components of NSF’s Climate Research
Foci
Partnerships
Modeling , scaling, complexity
Fundamental research
Environmental observation
Adaptation
Geosciences
Biological Sciences
Office of Polar Programs
Education and human Research
Climate Research (+$46.0 million for a total of $46.0 million).
In FY 2010, BIO will make a major investment in NSF’s new Climate Research effort. NSF proposes
an integrated approach that includes: modeling of basic natural and human processes; fundamental
research to support paradigm development and predictive understanding; environmental observation;
inquiry-based studies of integrated natural and human systems; and research on the environmental
significance of adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Specific emphases include:
• Modeling: Enhance scalability of climate and ecosystem models to move climate modeling from the
global to the regional scale; move ecological modeling from the local to the regional scale; and
improve predictability at multiple scales to inform decision makers;
• Fundamental Research: Support a broad research portfolio in carbon cycling, biodiversity, and
ecological systems and expand the Nation’s workforce trained to address complex environmental
challenges;
• Observation: Improve, upgrade and deploy critical environmental observing platforms and systems
(Long Term Ecological Research and the National Ecological Observatory Network) and partner with
the USDA to establish a set of Urban Long Term Research Areas.
The long-term goal of this program is to assert U.S. leadership in providing and communicating the
fundamental knowledge base on climate change. 14

15. AGS Future Personnel Changes
The search for AGS Division Director is ongoing
Clifford Jacobs detailed to OPP
Steve Nelson is still Acting Section Head for ULAFOS
Jay Fein’s replacement is being sought
Brad Smull is the new PDMP Manager

16. Questions or Comments