Abdalati and CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Leaders Advocate for Federal Science Investment in Washington D.C.
On September 24 and 25, Geography Professor and Director of CU’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) joined the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Massimo Ruzzene on visits with Agency leaders in Washington DC to discuss the value the government’s science investments at the University of Colorado. They met with The NASA Deputy Administrator and the Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, the Assistant Administrator for NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research, and Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch in the White House's Office of Management and Budget for the last three US Presidential Administrations. Their conversations focused on challenges to the federal science budgets and how universities like CU can enhance the value of the federal investments.
Dr. Abdalati also serves on the . The advisory council’s members are chosen by NASA and serve at the pleasure of the NASA Administrator. They provide consensus advice and make recommendations to the NASA Administrator. Abdalati, who represents the council’s Climate Priority Focus Area, provides perspectives on NASA’s efforts in the area of climate change, participated in their most recent meeting on October 1 and 2. The Council’s discussion and recommendations spanned the full range of the NASA portfolio from human spaceflight to aeronautics to space science to Earth science.