These modules feature career connections and real-world applications related to society, technology, and the environment and also highlight the work of current scientists who are representative of the diverse backgrounds present within the communities.
Fleischaker said his firm was seeking "a more reasonable conflict-of-interest standard which will not result in the loss of current scientists or the inability to recruit future scientists.
Overall, the effect on current scientists and trainees is likely to be small, since the cuts are aimed mainly at the undergraduate level and below.
"Whatever gets enacted in terms of immigration," Hira says, "is going to affect the careers of current scientists and postdocs, as well as future ones".
She is the 11th current scientist from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory invited to join the Academy for their excellence in original scientific work.
Although space weather scientists have seen no more significant activity since the solar flares that launched the current storm, scientists around the globe are still keeping a close watch on the Sun.
Southern Spain has long been plagued by cyclical droughts, but the current crisis, scientists say, probably reflects a more permanent climate change brought on by global warming.
When searching ancient climate records for parallels with the current situation, scientists point to the handful of instances where the Earth's temperature shifted quickly because of surges in CO2 linked to volcanic activity.
Asked to comment on the current case, scientists outside the military who research the use of amphetamines say it is impossible to know whether Dexedrine muddled the pilots' thinking without knowing how tired they were at the time, whether they had been taking the drug for many days in a row, and how strongly their bodies responded to it.
The world has already warmed more than 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 19th century, and at the current pace, scientists predict, warming could accelerate in coming decades if nations don't take serious steps to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
