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<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">AIBS Public Policy Report, Volume 21, Issue 24, November 23, 2020</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">AIBS Supports Legislation to Reverse Executive Order Limiting Civil Service Protections<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Senate Releases All FY 2021 Spending Bills, Omnibus Negotiations Begin<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Trump Administration Removes Head of U.S. Climate Program<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Lawmakers Raise Questions about New NIST Appointee<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Call for Applications: 2021 Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Webinar Series: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Bring the Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science Course to Your Institution<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo1">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Input Requested on Key Science Leadership Roles in Government<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Next Meeting of National Museum and Library Services Board<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Save the Date: The Gulf of Mexico Conference 2021<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Submit Ideas, Nominations for Ocean Decade U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l11 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Experts Sought: Environmental Health to Inform Infectious Disease Response<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">From the Federal Register<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">AIBS Supports Legislation to Reverse Executive Order Limiting Civil Service Protections</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><br>
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The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has joined 15 other scientific organizations in thanking House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Representative Gerald Connolly (D-VA), and Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) for introducing the “Saving
the Civil Service Act” (<a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=9d56d7a639&e=6708ed45cf">H.R. 8687</a>) to reverse the October 21, 2020 Executive Order on Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.<br>
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The <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=773c4c7959&e=6708ed45cf">
Order</a> would create a new classification of “Schedule F” employees serving in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions” and would restrict protections for certain civil servants, making it easier for the federal government
to fire career staff.<br>
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“While the White House has said that this directive will give federal agencies more flexibility to remove ‘Schedule’ employees from their roles for poor performance, we are deeply concerned that the Executive Order could result in career professionals—including
critical scientists and public health professionals—being stripped from their positions for political reasons, resulting in the loss of critical institutional knowledge and expertise,” the groups note. “The new Executive Order has the potential to shift the
workforce from one that is based on merit to one that is focused, above all, on loyalty to an administration. Such a shift would have real-world implications for America’s leadership in research and innovation and for Americans’ collective health, well-being,
and security.”<br>
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<a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=2689088664&e=6708ed45cf">Read the letter.</a><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Senate Releases All FY 2021 Spending Bills, Omnibus Negotiations Begin</span></strong><br>
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The Senate Committee on Appropriations released all twelve fiscal year (FY) 2021 appropriation bills on November 10, 2020. The bills will forego Committee mark ups and debate within the Senate and instead serve as a starting point for bicameral negotiations
on an omnibus spending agreement. The House passed ten out of twelve appropriation bills earlier this summer.<br>
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President Trump <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=c6a73df527&e=6708ed45cf">
proposed</a> cutting the budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF) by 6 percent in FY 2021. However, both the House and Senate bills would provide increases to the agency’s budget. NSF would receive $8.5 billion in funding under the Senate Commerce,
Justice, and Science (CJS) spending bill, a $200 million increase from FY 2020. NSF’s core basic research portfolio would receive $6.9 billion, an increase of $170 million. Under the
<a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=3892f70d69&e=6708ed45cf">
House bill</a>, NSF funding would grow by $270 million, and its research account would receive a boost of $230 million. <br>
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While the House CJS spending bill would fund the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at a flat budget of $22.63 billion, the Senate proposes increasing its funding to $23.5 billion (+$866 million). Under the Senate bill, the National Institute of
Standards and Technology would receive $1.05 billion, an increase of $16 million from FY 2020, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would receive an additional $51 million for an overall budget of $5.40 billion in FY 2021.<br>
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The Senate Interior-Environment bill includes $35.8 billion in discretionary spending, $1 billion below the amount allocated in the House bill. The Department of the Interior would receive $13.65 billion overall, $286 million above the FY 2020 enacted level
and $18 million less than the House’s allocation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Budget for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) would decrease by $5 million to $1.27 billion under the Senate bill. The House bill would boost funding for the Survey by 2 percent. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l13 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The Ecosystems Mission Area within USGS would receive $258 million, including $25 million for the Environmental Health Program, which the President had proposed eliminating. House Appropriators
also rejected eliminating the Environmental Health Program and approved a flat budget of $23.5 million for it earlier this year. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l13 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would receive $1.55 billion in FY 2021, $93.5 million less than FY 2020 and $29 million below the House bill. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l13 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The National Park Service would be funded at $3.12 billion, $255 million below FY 2020 and $102 million below the level approved by the House. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l13 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The Senate bill would allocate $1.3 billion to the Bureau of Land Management, $28 million below FY 2020 and in line with the House bill.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l13 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The Smithsonian Institution would receive $982 million under the Senate plan, a decrease of $65 million from FY 2020. The House approved a budget increase of 1 percent for the Smithsonian
Institution. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Both Senate and House Appropriators have rejected the President’s proposal to slash the budget for the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) by 26 percent. The Senate Interior-Environment bill would provide a small increase of $28 million to the regulatory agency. The House version of the bill would provide an overall increase of $318 million, or 3.5 percent. The Science and Technology
account within the EPA would receive $718 million under the Senate bill, $1.2 million above FY 2020 and $27 million below the House bill.<br>
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Under the Senate Labor-Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations bill, discretionary spending would increase by $1.43 billion for a total of $184.5 billion. The Senate plan does not include any emergency funding to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget would be augmented by 4.8 percent to $43.7 billion under the Senate proposal. The House bill, on the other hand, would provide $47 billion (+$5.5 billion) for NIH, including $5 billion in emergency appropriations
to improve capacity at research institutions. Additionally, the Senate LHHS bill would allocate $4.2 billion (+$161 million) for public health preparedness and $7.88 billion (+$130 million) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Institute
of Museum and Library services would receive $257 million, an increase of $5 million over FY 2020.<br>
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The Senate Energy and Water Development spending bill would increase funding for the Department of Energy Office of Science by $26 million for a total of $7.026 billion. The House bill would boost the office’s budget by $50 million. The Senate bill would
also reject the President’s “short-sighted proposal to terminate the Advanced Research Project Agency—Energy (ARPA-E)” and instead increase investment in the program by $5 million for a total of $430 million in FY 2021.<br>
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The Senate’s spending bill for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies provides more than $3.3 billion for agricultural research programs, including the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the National Institute
of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). ARS would receive $1.51 billion in FY 2021, a decrease of $97 million or 6 percent compared to FY 2020. The House bill would shrink the budget for ARS by 10 percent. NIFA, which partners with academic institutions to conduct
research, education, and extension activities, would receive $1.54 billion (+$12 million) under the Senate plan and $1.57 billion (+$48 million) under the House plan. Both chambers would augment funding for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative by
$10 million to $435 million.<br>
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Congress passed a continuing resolution in September to keep the government operational in FY 2021, which started on October 1. To avoid a government shutdown, all twelve appropriations bills must be passed by the House and Senate and signed by the President
before the stopgap funding expires on December 11. Negotiations between Senate and House Appropriators on an omnibus funding package incorporating all twelve appropriation bills are currently ongoing. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has indicated
that he would like to pass both FY 2021 appropriations and a “highly targeted” pandemic relief measure before the year ends.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Trump Administration Removes Head of U.S. Climate Program</span></strong><br>
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On November 6, 2020, the White House abruptly removed Michael Kuperberg from his position as Executive Director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which oversees the production of the National Climate Assessment (NCA)—a scientific report on
climate change that is congressionally mandated to be prepared every four years by scientists from 13 federal agencies. <br>
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Kuperberg, a Department of Energy (DOE) employee who had led the USGCRP for more than five years, had been working to
<a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=fb25de1668&e=6708ed45cf">
advance</a> the fifth and latest installment of the NCA after a months-long delay from the White House. According to
<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">E&E News</span></em>, Don Wuebbles, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois and co-lead author of the first volume of the fourth climate report, said that Kuperberg has been transferred back to DOE.<br>
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The Trump Administration announced that David Legates, a climate change denier who was recently appointed as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction at NOAA, will replace Kuperberg as the Head of USGCRP. Legates,
a professor of geography from the University of Delaware, is affiliated with the Heartland Institute—a think tank funded partially by the fossil fuel industry. He has long questioned that human activity is causing global warming.<br>
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Legates will head the development of the NCA for the next two months and will have influence over the crucial step of contracting scientists to write the report. Scientists are concerned that those contracts could be structured to keep researchers who reject
climate science in place after President Trump leaves office in January. <br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Lawmakers Raise Questions about New NIST Appointee</span></strong><br>
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House Science Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Research and Technology Subcommittee Chairwoman Haley Stevens (D-MI) have criticized the appointment of Dr. Jason Richwine, an independent public policy analyst, to a new senior role at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).<br>
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In a November 17, 2020 <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=05df4e08d0&e=6708ed45cf">
letter</a> to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the lawmakers questioned the creation of a new senior-level position within the Department of Commerce, namely the Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, and the appointment of Dr. Richwine
to that role without providing notice to congressional committees.<br>
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The lawmakers also raised concerns about Dr. Richwine’s “anachronistic IQ-based ranking of races in order to support his anti-immigration beliefs, leaning on debunked pseudoscience that has been used for centuries to justify colonialism, slavery, and segregation.”
The letter cites blog posts he has written for a white supremacist website, “arguing that Hispanic Americans will be more prone to criminality in the future.” The lawmakers assert that Richwine holds “beliefs and actions [that] are plainly disqualifying from
federal service” and argue that his “educational and professional background are plainly inadequate for carrying out the responsibilities of senior leadership at NIST.” The letter notes that Richwine has “no apparent applied experience in the physical sciences,
engineering, government, or public administration and has never authored or contributed to a peer-reviewed publication.”<br>
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Being a political appointee, it is unlikely that Richwine will continue in his role under a future Biden Administration. However,
<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Science Insider</span></em> reports that scientists are concerned about a recent Administrative Order signed by Secretary Ross, which designates Richwine’s position as the successor to the NIST Director. Under
the previous policy, the Associate Director for Laboratory Operations, a career official and not a political appointee, would take over NIST leadership if the Director left or was removed.<br>
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Johnson and Stevens have requested answers within two weeks to several questions in their letter to Ross, including: “Did the Department conduct any analysis to support the requirement for a new Deputy Undersecretary position prior to establishing it?” <br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Call for Applications: 2021 Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award</span></strong><br>
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Are you a science graduate student looking to make a difference in science policy and funding? The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is now accepting applications for the 2021 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. This award recognizes
graduate students in the biological sciences who are demonstrating an interest and aptitude for working at the intersection of science and policy.<br>
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Recipients of the AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award receive: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">A trip to Washington, DC, to participate in the AIBS Congressional Visits Day, an annual event where scientists meet with lawmakers to advocate for federal investment in the biological
sciences, with a primary focus on the National Science Foundation. Domestic travel and hotel expenses are paid for the winners. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, winners will participate in a virtual advocacy event in the spring of 2021 (likely in April)
and will also have the opportunity to attend a future in-person event.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l15 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Online policy and communications training, including information on the legislative process and trends in federal science funding, and how to engage with policymakers and the news media.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l15 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Meetings with congressional policymakers to discuss the importance of federal investment in the biological sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l15 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">A one-year subscription to the journal
<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">BioScience</span></em> and a copy of “Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media.” <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">The 2021 award is open to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents enrolled in a graduate degree program in the biological sciences, science
education, or a closely allied field. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and commitment to science policy and/or science education policy. Prior recipients, including Honorable Mentions, are not eligible for the award.<br>
<br>
Applications are due by 05:00 PM Eastern Time on January 15, 2021. The application guidelines can be downloaded at
<a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=42a36cc708&e=6708ed45cf">
https://www.aibs.org/news/2020/201111-call-for-eppla-2021.html#subheader</a>.<br>
<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Webinar Series: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World</span></strong><br>
<br>
Recognizing the rapid changes happening within museum communities and the efforts being made throughout the community to adapt to these changes, iDigBio is organizing a webinar series, entitled
<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Adapting to COVID-19: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World</span></em>. The webinar series aims to help provide insight into how different groups and institutions are adapting to life
in a quickly evolving world. AIBS, the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), and the Natural Science Collections Alliance contributed to the planning of these programs. <br>
<br>
The next webinar will be held on December 8 from 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET. All webinars will be recorded and held in Zoom.<br>
<br>
<u>December 8: Built-in Flexibility: Lessons learned engaging your community virtually</u><br>
This webinar will focus on designing engaging and accessible online events that build lasting community. We will explore the 2020 Biology and Math Educators (BIOME) Institute organized by BioQUEST and QUBES as a case study. We will share lessons learned and
practices that can be applied to online professional development and educational events. Topics include: participant engagement, asynchronous and synchronous community building, access, universal design, and online professional development.<br>
<br>
Speakers: Andrew Hasley and Hayley Orndorf, BioQUEST<br>
<br>
Zoom link: <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=0d792af61e&e=6708ed45cf">
https://ufl.zoom.us/j/99571640979?pwd=V0VwbDBySEtBYUptNUZ2L0RQNGh0UT09</a><br>
<br>
Visit the webinar series page for more information: <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=dc6b475821&e=6708ed45cf">
https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-adapting-covid-resources-natural-history-collections-new-virtual-world</a><br>
<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Bring the Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science Course to Your Institution
</span></strong><br>
<br>
Reports abound from professional societies, the Academies, government agencies, and researchers calling attention to the fact that science is increasingly an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and international endeavor. In short, science
has become a “team sport.”<br>
<br>
Team science is increasingly common in the 21st century to develop convergent solutions to complex problems. Collaboration is no longer limited to sharing ideas with the biologist in the lab next door. The questions confronting science often require teams that
may include a mix of computer and information scientists, physical and social scientists, mathematicians, ethicists, policy and management experts, as well as community stakeholders and citizen scientists. Adding to this complexity, teams span programs within
organizations, cross organization boundaries to form institutional consortia, and often include international partners.<br>
<br>
There is a real and present need to better prepare scientists for success in this new collaborative environment. The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has responded to this call with a program for scientists, educators, and individuals who work
with or participate in scientific teams. This intensive, two-day, interactive, professional development course was developed by scientists and other experts focusing on collaboration and teamwork to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required
to become productive and effective members of scientific teams.<br>
<br>
Nothing teaches collaboration like practicing collaboration. This is not a course that asks you to learn in isolation. It is a microcosm of scientific collaboration, with extensive hands-on learning as part of a scientific team, with scientific case studies
and examples.<br>
<br>
The Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science course is designed for anyone involved in collaborative scientific endeavors. Team leaders will find the course especially helpful. Because participants will work on “real-world” team science concerns, we encourage
multiple members of a team to attend together. <br>
<br>
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now offer an online version of the workshop. We can also customize the course and bring it to your university, department, lab, or research team. If you are interested in organizing a workshop for your institution,
please contact Scott Glisson at <a href="mailto:sglisson@aibs.org">sglisson@aibs.org</a> for more information.<br>
<br>
Additional information, including a course outline, is available at <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=5ccb58ffcf&e=6708ed45cf">
https://www.aibs.org/news/2020/200420-team-science.html</a>.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Short Takes</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The Day One Project, an initiative that aims to articulate and advance priorities for the next Administration, is requesting input from the scientific community to identify the top
100 leadership roles across the Federal Government where scientific and technical (S&T) expertise is most critical. The goal is to ensure that all the important S&T leadership roles across the federal government are identified, tracked and filled as quickly
as possible in the next presidential term. Deadline to provide input is December 1, 2020.
<a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=26b0ddecca&e=6708ed45cf">
Learn more</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l16 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The 42nd meeting of the National Museum and Library Services Board will be held online on December 10, 2020, from 11:00 AM Eastern Time onwards. The panel advises the Director of the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on duties, powers, and authority of IMLS relating to museum, library, and information services, as well as coordination of activities for the improvement of these services. Details about the meeting can be found
here: <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=681219744b&e=6708ed45cf">
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-11-12/html/2020-25025.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l16 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">A virtual “preview” of the Gulf of Mexico Conference (GoMCon), which combines the annual Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA) All Hands Meeting, the annual Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystems
Science (GoMOSES) Conference, and the triannual State of the Gulf Summit, will be held on April 14th, 2021. The virtual GoMCon preview emphasizes the intersection of scientific research and the management of Gulf Coast human and natural systems, and will
serve as an introduction to the 2022 in-person conference. Learn more and register at
<a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=4f5cc0496d&e=6708ed45cf">
https://gomcon2021.dryfta.com/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l16 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=9f5e307022&e=6708ed45cf">
UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development</a> is a global effort from 2021-2030 focused on ensuring the sustainable use of ocean resources and long-term ocean health. The U.S. National Committee for the Ocean Decade is inviting nominations for
early career natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, resource managers, and policy specialists to join this effort. Transformative research ideas known as “Ocean-Shots” to spark potentially disruptive advances in ocean science for sustainable development
are also requested. Deadline to submit <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=795ee27394&e=6708ed45cf">
ideas</a> and <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=2484f4d079&e=6708ed45cf">
nominations</a> is December 1, 2020. The National Academies will also hold a kick off meeting for the Ocean Decade U.S. on January 13-14, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l16 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The National Academies’ Standing Committee on the Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions is seeking experts to plan a workshop to explore how environmental exposure
assessment and modeling could help inform real-time public health decision making about infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. The workshop will be held in June 2021. Deadline to submit nominations is December 7, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Time. <a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=b7dae7f663&e=6708ed45cf">
Learn more</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">From the Federal Register</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><br>
<br>
The following items appeared in the Federal Register from November 9 to 20, 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Week Ending November 20, 2020</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Agriculture</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=4a8d7321b3&e=6708ed45cf">Request for Nominations of Members for the Citrus Disease Subcommittee</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Commerce</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=505850b5f5&e=6708ed45cf">Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Meeting of the Atlantic Highly Migratory
Species Advisory Panel</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Environmental Protection Agency</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=1dd55fe586&e=6708ed45cf">Notice of Meeting of the EPA Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee
(CHPAC)</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Health and Human Services</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=2e8c826cbc&e=6708ed45cf">Meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=368fbbee1c&e=6708ed45cf">Meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Interior</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=c520838dea&e=6708ed45cf">Notice of Teleconference Meeting of the
<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Exxon Valdez</span></em> Oil Spill Public Advisory Committee</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l14 level1 lfo9">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=5c3d7bc4b1&e=6708ed45cf">Request for Nominations for the National Park System Advisory Board</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">National Science Foundation</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=54aaa2b7d2&e=6708ed45cf">STEM Education Advisory Panel; Notice of Meeting</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Week Ending November 13, 2020</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Agriculture</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=fc41b97367&e=6708ed45cf">Information Collection: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Commerce</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=d23bd714b0&e=6708ed45cf">Solicitation of Applications for the Ocean Exploration Advisory Board (OEAB)</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo12">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=567f00e6a8&e=6708ed45cf">Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Advisory Panel</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Environmental Protection Agency</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=9aa192e788&e=6708ed45cf">Meeting of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Health and Human Services</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=412b16838d&e=6708ed45cf">Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services; Meeting</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#5B5B5B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo14">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=79a43b2f5c&e=6708ed45cf">Board of Scientific Counselors, Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases
(BSC, DDID)</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">Institute of Museum and Library Services</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://aibs.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=8ee2680b89&e=6708ed45cf">42nd Meeting of the National Museum and Library Services Board</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B">National Aeronautics and Space Administration</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#5B5B5B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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