Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences (1991) / Chapter Skim
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To accomplish this, the staff conducted a survey of the agencies and departments of the U.S. federal government that were expected to have some level of research activity in the hydrologic sciences.
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This information is generally unavailable and unknown to the scientific community. The agencies were not asked for project details, but instead were asked to attempt to classify their efforts to the extent possible according to the eight contemporary categories of the hydrologic sciences adopted by the committee (e.g., earth crust, climatic processes, living communities, and so on)
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To provide additional perspective, the total federal budget for basic research in FY 1990 approximated $10 billion. Therefore, the total amount of funding for research in the hydrologic sciences (about $127 million)
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