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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Hi everyone:</blockquote>
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<div>Here is some correspondence about the CI budgets in the
President's budget. Terry Schaff is WHOI's congressional contact
(lobbyist). This says we should finalize Pete's letter, and
begin sending it to the appropriate delegations. </div>
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<div>Don</div>
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To: 'Terrence Schaff' <tschaff@whoi.edu>, 'Cisco Werner'<br>
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</x-tab><cisco@marine.rutgers.edu>, 'Don Anderson'
<danderson@whoi.edu>, 'Michael<br>
Roman ' <roman@hpl.umces.edu><br>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:01:39 -0400<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Terry,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I have discussed this with Jeremy
Weirich, as you know Majority CJS Appropriations, and he is going to
explore NOAA's intent for CINAR further with the NOAA folks, making
it clear that now that this CI has been competitively awarded the
Chairwoman expects that it will be used and funded as advertised.
He is fully aware of the NGI earmark and has told NOAA that that
approach is unsustainable for the Senate sponsors and the subcommittee
members believe that the regional CIs be used to the fullest. He
is asking for some budget numbers that demonstrate their plans.
The letters to the MA, NJ, ME, and MD members certainly won't
hurt.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Don</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>From:</b> Terrence Schaff
[mailto:tschaff@whoi.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Cisco Werner; Donald F. Boesch; Don Anderson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Status of CINAR</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Below is the language from the FY10
Senate approps bill along with the current funding layout. Note
that the CI budgets are tied up with the NOAA labs.
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>NGI is a baby of the Minority and has
been looked after by Shelby's (R-Alabama) staffer, Art Cameron.
There are no other earmarks for CIs in the Senate bill as far as
I can tell and there is no House language.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I looked back at the detailed FY2010 NOAA
budget. There is only a brief narrative for the Labs and CI line
which included no breakout among the components (i.e., only the
$21.84k number). The CIs are listed very briefly but with no
detail.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Terry</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The amounts provided for<b> Ocean,
Coastal and Great Lakes Research/Laboratories and Cooperative
Institutes</b> are as follows:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>NOAA Request:
$21,840,000</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>House: $21,840,000</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Senate: $25,040,000 (request +
$3,200,000)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Senate Report language:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Laboratories and Cooperative
Institutes.</i>-Of the funds provided</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>for Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes
Research, $3,200,000 is for the</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Northern Gulf Institute [NGI]. The NGI is
a cooperative institute</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>[CI] that was solicited and competitively
selected by NOAA to develop</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>regional approaches to ecosystem
management, and research</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>on the interface between human,
watershed, coast, ocean, and atmosphere</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>continuum. NGI won the competitive bid
and has excelled</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>in meeting its goals, as well as the ones
independently established</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>by NOAA. As a result, NGI has been held
up as a model institute,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>created under the new CI process, and has
had a major impact</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>on regional approaches to research and
educational program</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>development. The Committee is
disappointed that NOAA did not</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>request any funding for this cooperative
institute that NOAA itself</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>created. The Committee believes this is
yet another unfortunate example</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>of NOAA's failure to provide adequate
services that address</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>the pressing and critical needs in the
Gulf of Mexico. The gulf region</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>is a significant contributor to the
Nation's economy, and</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>NOAA's own data shows that the gulf
experiences the highest frequency</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>of severe weather and is affected by more
disasters than</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>any other region. Therefore, the
Committee expects NOAA to end</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>this inequity by providing adequate base
funding for this activity</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>in future budget requests.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Cisco Werner
wrote:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
I attach the Federal Register (Oct 7, 2008) call for the North
Atlantic Regional Cooperative Institute. The 2nd page, middle
column, specifies the funding availability. It does say the
usual "All funding is contingent upon the availability of Federal
appropriations."<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Cisco.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 9/3/09 11:27 PM, "Don Anderson" <<a
href="">danderson@whoi.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Don:<br>
<br>
The FFO specified a budget of $7 M, and we wrote the proposal as if
that was the amount we would have to work with. But we were told
by the program manager that even though $7M might flow through CINAR
in a year, most of that would be for projects that were already
ongoing between PIs in the region, and NOAA. For example, the
Climate Program Office gives about $4M to Bob Weller here at WHOI for
mooring arrays in the equatorial Pacific and elsewhere, plus ship
time, etc. That money was being routed through CICOR - the
CI that is ending, and it will now go through CINAR. So, in addition
to funds that NOAA gives to other PIs in the region for other ongoing
or planned activities, that is the $7M. There is no "new"
money in the pipeline - hence our need for program development or
internal research funds.<br>
<br>
Don<br>
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At 11:14 PM -0400 9/3/09, Donald F. Boesch wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Can someone give me a brief summary of
what the FFO specified?<br>
<br>
<b>From:</b> Cisco Werner [<a
href="mailto:cisco@marine.rutgers.edu">mailto:cisco@marine.rutgers.edu</a
>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Don Anderson<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Donald F. Boesch; Terry Schaff<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Status of CINAR<br>
<br>
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Hi Don,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the forward, no problem. Let me know if I can help
through our Federal Relations office in DC. She was a bit
surprised when I told her how little we were receiving (as you
detailed) despite what the FFO specified.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Cisco.<br>
<br>
Sent from my iPhone<br>
<br>
On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:00 PM, Don Anderson <<a
href="">danderson@whoi.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote>Cisco:<br>
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</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
Sorry - I did not copy you on this.<br>
<br>
Don A.<br>
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Don,<br>
This is helpful. I'll let you know what I find out.<br>
Don<br>
<br>
<b>From:</b> Don Anderson [<a
href="mailto:danderson@whoi.edu">mailto:danderson@whoi.edu</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Donald F. Boesch<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Schaff, Terry; Kleindinst, Judy<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Status of CINAR<br>
<br>
Don:<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, I know nothing of the FY10 CI budgets. But what I
expect is that for CINAR, they are only budgeting the small
amount we get for Task 1 activities (administration). For CINAR
- that was $350K - to cover one month of my salary, an administrator
(Judy Kleindinst) at half time, a half time staff assistant for
budget issues (now that all the grants for all 5 partners go
through WHOI), a bit of web design and data management time,
travel for investigators to our annual science meeting, and a bit of
travel for me to Silver Spring. What we need is some money to
give out competitively for research - right now the
non-administrative money that comes into CINAR is only for specific
projects where a NOAA program manager needs help from a specific PI.
We don't have any "program development" money, nor do
we have any discretionary money. The Northern Gulf Institute
(NGI) has an earmark for $3 M or so that they give out competitively
among the partners. I believe that CILER - Don Scavial's CI for
the Great Lakes also has a modest earmark.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
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So the bottom line is that I expect that the President's budget
includes enough for us to get our $350K, and the same for the other
CIs, but that there will not be any funds for us to build programs, or
to begin to function as an autonomous CI.<br>
<br>
Don<br>
<br>
<br>
Don,<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
Mike has been keeping me posted of the concerns about NOAA's
actual funding of the CINAR. I have been in touch with the lead
staffer handling NOAA on Senate Appropriations (our Senator Mikulski
is the subcommittee chair) and will be discussing this with him
further tomorrow. He has been informed by NOAA that the FY10
President's Request accounts for funding of this CI, as does the
Senate mark. "The Senate mark for all of the CI lines
are at the request or above it," they state. I need to know
of any information that you have to the contrary. Or is it the case
that the PR and Senate mark are too low to support what is in the
agreement? Need feedback before 11 am Friday.<br>
<br>
Don<br>
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Donald M. Anderson<br>
Senior Scientist, Biology Department and<br>
Director, Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region
(CINAR)<br>
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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CINAR web: <a
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Donald M. Anderson<br>
Senior Scientist, Biology Department and<br>
Director, Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><NAtlantic_CI.pdf></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Terry Schaff</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Director of Government
Relations</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>508-280-5913</blockquote>
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Donald M. Anderson<br>
Senior Scientist, Biology Department and<br>
Director, Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region
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CINAR web: http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=30715<br>
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