Posted on 04/19/2025 8:22:52 AM PDT by cgbg
Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress...
The email, sent yesterday by Anne Kinsinger, associate director of ecosystems at USGS, notified colleagues that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has ordered the agency to design a plan to slow and then cease all activities in its Ecosystems Mission Area in the next fiscal year, which begins in October...
USGS scientists study how ecosystems respond to climate change...
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I worled at a Univ. ... you have NO idea!!!
I guess we could call them “The Deserving Unemployed.”
My 2025 motto:
“Follow the science” to the unemployment line.
Not geology!
Get USGS back to its core mission!
Dat name...
Wouldn’t that free up a bunch of biologist to work on the burning question of what a woman is?
Or a bunch of geologists. (It was the USGS.)
Well we could do what the left does; just call them an expert and start to make “expert” pronouncements.
Th wealthy uiniversities can do these studies on their own - as they always did before there was federal funding of everything. But then they’d hav1e to use their endowments instead of just building them up.
Great, now they’ll never figure out how to extract sunbeams from cucumbers.
X An unknown quantity
Spurt A drip under pressure
I’m still trying to figure out why a geology department would have a biology program.
I could make a case for biology in geology.
The critters that ate oil spills, perhaps. And coal itself came from plants.
It’s a stretch, but it’s conceivable. Not gonna be a big department, though.
There was a terrorism threat many decades ago when there was talk of creating micro-organisms, like those that cleaned up oil slicks, and get them to survive the high temperatures underground where they could destroy oil fields at the source. That’s why it was called terrorism.
The temps are way too high, though. Didn’t work.
I remember that. now that I think about it there are bacteria that have an ecology around undersea volcanic vents.
So they can figure out what a rock is.
Prior to joining the USGS, she worked for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Biological Survey National Fisheries Contaminant Research Center (now the USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center).
National Biological Survey National Fisheries Contaminant Research Center, wow, what a mouthful of gobbledygook Big Gov speak.
WTF is the USGS the GEOLOGY service doing biology research?
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