[NHCOLL-L:5864] Science, Museum Organizations Oppose Changes to NSF Collections Support Program

[Norris, Christopher]

Extract from AIBS Public Policy Report<http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=b76a6b2cbb&e=4cc2021d19>

Science, Museum Organizations Oppose Changes to NSF Collections Support Program

On 24 February 2012 the Natural Science Collections Alliance, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Association of Science Museum Directors, American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the American Association of Museums wrote to the National Science Foundation (NSF) regarding the agency’s proposed budget for support of scientific collections.

Although the President’s recently released fiscal year 2013 budget request is generally supportive of science, NSF proposes to change the Collections in Support of Biological Research program from an annual to biennial competition. The change would effectively cut the program’s funding in half.

The CSBR program provides vitally important support to our nation’s biological sciences research collections. The program is considered by some to be besieged by more grant proposals than it can support. A biennial funding system would likely exacerbate the situation.

Read the letter at http://nscalliance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/joint-society-ltr-nsf-fy-2013.pdf<http://aibs.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=ca46151746&e=4cc2021d19>.



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Dr. Christopher A. Norris
President-Elect
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
www.spnhc.org<http://www.spnhc.org/>

Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
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PO Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118

Tel. +1(203)-432-3748
Fax. +1(203)-432-9816
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