{"id":26,"date":"2012-12-05T15:42:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science.crmain.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2012-12-05T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:42:18","slug":"funding-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.crmain.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Funding in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Give me Money (That’s what I want)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The eternal quest for any science, the quest for funding to do research. \u00a0I learned a really interesting, and to a degree saddening, fact today about the amount of money spent by lobbyist, approximately 29 billion dollars is spent to get their voices heard. \u00a0That is 2.9×10^9 or 29,000,000,000 dollars spent annually. \u00a0Take 1% of that (290,000,000) and put it directly into science research, on top of what is already what is spent, and hopefully we would see a direct benefit from that spending. \u00a0It has been asked many times, why should we spend money on X, Y and Z? \u00a0Unfortunately, I think the public sometimes forgets the outcomes of research. \u00a0While not related to the ocean sciences, establishment of the particle accelerators at CERN is allowing me to write this and for the eyes glued to the screen on a computer to read it.<\/p>\n

What of the woefully underfunded, depends on perspective there, marine sciences? \u00a0We have only explored about 5% of the ocean<\/a>, more than half of the population in the US lives on 17% of the total landmass (the coastal zone)<\/a>. \u00a0And yet we push to explore of the emptiness\u00a0surrounding\u00a0us, but ignore the close neighbor, the ocean. \u00a0Do we question where our fish come from, or even the impact of eating the fish? \u00a0How do we make our voices heard? \u00a0Speak the language that everyone wants to hear: money<\/a>. \u00a0We need to speak both the technical language to our peers, what X does to Z by way of Y. \u00a0To sway the general public, and therefore the members of Congress they are represented by, we must put it in terms of how does our research boost the economy, or how does what we study harm the economy. \u00a0We need to show end products\/applications as well, it may be great to study X but how can X be used in the future.<\/p>\n

The question is, can we in the marine sciences raise our voices loud enough?<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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