Jack Fellows UCAR Vice President jfellowsucar edu Agenda

Jack Fellows UCAR Vice President jfellows@ucar. edu Agenda • Dimensions of the Budget • Players • How this really works • Interesting Issues I dealt with while in the government • How you can be involved.

Background • 1983 Ph. D in Civil Engineering – parametrizing continental scale watershed models with remotely sensed data. • 1983 -84 AGU Congressional Science Fellow • 1984 -1997 OMB Science and Space Branch Chief • 1997 - present: UCAR Vice President

2010 Budget Overview

Executive Office of the President (The Players) • • • • White House Office: Rahm Emanuel Council of Economic Advisers: Christina Romer Office of Management and Budget: Peter Orszag Domestic Policy Council: Melody Barnes National Economic Council: Lawrence Summers National Security Council: James Jones Council on Environmental Quality: Nancy Sutley Office of Science and Technology Policy: John Holdren President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board: Paul Volcker President's Intelligence Advisory Board: Chuck Hagel and David Boren Office of National AIDS Policy: Jeff Crowley Office of National Drug Control Policy: Gil Kerlikowske Office of the Trade Representative: Ron Kirk Office of Administration: Brad Kiley White House Military Office: Vacant

Office of Management and Budget (Keeper of the President’s Policy)

OSTP-OMB R&D Guidance (Started in 1991)

R&D Budget Bush Sr Clinton Bush Jr Obama

Basic Research Clinton Bush Jr Obama

R&D Doubling Initiatives Bush Jr Obama

Interesting Issues (Why did I stay? ) • Learning about incoming Administration policies • Space Shuttle and Space Station • Doubling of the NSF Budget • US Global Change Research Program • Political punishments

How can you be involved? • Congressional Science Fellowship – the ultimate civics lesson • Professional Societies – sign up for action alerts or Congressional Visits Day • Advocacy Activities

Transition Document Advice to the New Administration and Congress: Actions to Make our Nation Resilient to Severe Weather and Climate Change • Nine partners – University Corporation for Atmospheric Research – Weather Coalition – American Meteorological Society – American Geophysical Union – Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science – National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges – Consortium for Ocean Leadership – Alliance for Earth Observations – Reinsurance Association of America • Recommendations: – Observations. – Computing. – Research and Modeling. – Societal Relevance. – Leadership and Management. – Budget Resources: +$9 B over the next five years based on community documents. • Community Nominations Collected www. ucar. edu/td Science is not Done!

Reorganizing the Federal climate enterprise in the NSTC and Earth Observations Committee