A Space Physics Paradox Why Has Increased Funding Been Accompanied by Decreased Effectiveness in the Conduct of Space Physics Research? (1994) / Chapter Skim
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. The committee deemed it timely to address the issues involved and, like the Lederman report, seek to resolve the basic paradox behind the question: Why has increased research funding been accompanied by decreased effectiveness in the conduct of space physics research?
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Decreased effectiveness, and the accompanying widespread dissatisfaction in the research community, may be symptomatic of a system that is riot serving either space science or the public interest. Consequently, members of the CSTR and CSSP set out to assemble a data base of information ore grant programs and science projects supported over the past two decades by the main funding sources for these communities.2 The resulting data set consists of a combination of data from individual scientists, the funding organizations, and other supporting institutions (e.g., American Geophysical Union, International Association for Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, International Council on Scientific Union's Committee on Space Research)
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It also males clear that the established methods used for the past 40 years to fund research in the United States are changing, and changing rapidly. The present report addresses research funding issues specifically in the fields of solar, solar-terrestrial, and space plasma physics.
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