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Appendix A
Appendix A
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This is particularly critical in the solid-earth sciences because federal agencies use a wide range of earth science subdisciplines to accomplish a variety of national goals. In order to gain a perspective and sense of the diversity T have collected a data base that provides information on the scope of the solid-earth science disciplines as they are supported and used by U.S.
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For example the areas of soil science, cartography, and bathymetry have been included. The data base includes all applied areas that may benefit from the application of skills derived from training in the basic disciplines of the solid-earth sciences, or use basic solid-earth science information as essential components to accomplishing mission goals.
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The breakdown by Agency Function gives a visual description of the use of solid-earth scientists in accomplishing the missions of the agency, and the disciplinary divisions show the distribution of the types of skills that are needed. The Table gives a quantitative indication of the expenditures for each agency.
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4. Comments on collection/maintenance of solid-earth science data base II.
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Coal Oil and gas Geothermal Hydrological resources Groundwater reservoirs Surface reservoirs Education and Human Resources Engineering Geology Construction Land use/urban geology Mining engineering Mining technology/mineral extraction Petroleum engineering Global Change Studies (solid-earth components only) Natural Hazard Reduction
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Estimate percentage support of the total solid-earth science budget. Extraterrestrial Meteorites Planets Terrestrial Continental (non Polar regions)
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NASA 66.47 NOAA 41.85 . NRC 7.77 NSF 134.70 Tom1 1368.01 Facilities and Instrumentation Education Percentage $ millions Percentage $ millions Percentage 20.18 USDA 3.51 0.26 USDA o 4.47 DOD 25.09 1.83 DOD o 11.77 DOE 7.57 0.55 DOE 0.41 0.03 42.56 DOI 32.67 2.39 DOI 10.29 0.75 0.04 DOS o 0.11 DOS 0.00 0.91 o 2.65 EPA 1.51 EPA 0.07 4.86 NASA 15.74 1.15 NASA o 3.06 NOAA 0.60 0.04 o NOAA o 0.57 NRC
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The mission Gals include research, soil, chomps, energy, regulatory geology, engineering geology, remediation, de~nse, naor~1 hazards, minera1 resources, globe cb~nge, educadon and barman resources, nuclear monitoring, land management, planetary geology, and other.
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Research 2. Global Change 3.
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Soil Science DISCI PLI NARY Fl ELD FIGURE A.3 Percentage of the solid-earth science expenditures within selected agencies subdivided according to discipline.
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Soil Science 3. Geology 4.
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