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Sun Spotters
July 27, 2010
FROM NEXTGOV
072210solartrendsNGspotINS(Jul. 27) - NASANASA As if earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the ever-present dangers of this year's hurricane season were not enough, government scientists and emergency planners are increasingly concerned about the need to predict and mitigate the impact of another force of nature: bursts of fury by our nurturing sun. ...
Sun Spotters
July 1, 2010 Federal scientists are on the lookout for an unpleasant solar surprise. As if earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the ever-present dangers of this year's hurricane season were not enough, government scientists and emergency planners are increasingly concerned about the need to predict and mitigate the impact of another force of nature: ...
Mission: Save Earth
August 1, 2009 NASA scientist guards the planet from dangerous stowaways on space flights. Among the many impressive government power titles-admiral, ambassador, Cabinet secretary-the weightiest of all might belong to an unassuming NASA scientist. As planetary protection officer, Catharine Conley has the awesome responsibility of shielding planet Earth from an alien invasion. The ...
Hidden Treasures
August 1, 2000 letters@govexec.com es, there are feeding frenzies in government. Really vicious ones. Just show up at 2 p.m. on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday at the Commerce Department, and you can watch wide-eyed as a bunch of hammerhead and lemon sharks dive ravenously after and gulp up processed squid appetizers. Although ...
Building a Better Cockroach Toxin
June 1, 1999 n its report on the Energy Department's Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention and Nuclear Cities Initiative, the General Accounting Office looked at the track record of a number of DOE-sponsored projects to develop marketable commercial products in Russian weapons laboratories. GAO reported that nearly $300,000 was spent on a project to ...
To Russia With Bird Band
June 1, 1999 ot all of the scientists in the former Soviet Union who have benefited from U.S. efforts at cooperation have been weapons experts. For the past two decades, Steve Kohl of the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service has traveled 90 times to Russia, helping his counterparts there develop programs to ...
Avoiding Armageddon
June 1, 1999 In the hopes of averting a nuclear apocalypse, U.S. agencies are putting scientists in the former Soviet Union on the federal payroll. By Edward Goldstein ownsizing may be the norm at most federal agencies in the 1990s, but in an ironic twist of history, thousands of nuclear, biological and chemical ...
Back to School
November 1, 1998 isten up, class. The subject of today's exercise is the ambush television interview. Any volunteers? Great. Come on up. Your assignment is to walk through a dark space, be accosted by bright television camera lights, and face as best you can rapid-fire questioning about an embarrassing incident involving your agency ...
Officers Under Siege
April 1, 1998 NOAA leaders may believe their organization is critical to addressing key ocean issues in the next century, but they and other Clinton administration officials think the agency can live without its 200-year-old corps of uniformed officers who conduct various oceanographic duties. Currently, 263 officers serve in the little-known NOAA Corps. ...
The Coastal America Partnership
April 1, 1998 In 1992, President Bush began a modest effort called Coastal America to bring federal agencies together in joint programs to address coastal issues such as habitat loss and degradation, water pollution, and contaminated sediments. By 1995, the original partnership of four agencies (the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife ...
