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INSIDE ▲ Plate Boundaries to Politics: Pursuing Passions in Science, Sharon Mosher, P Vol. 12, No. 2 A Publication of the Geological Society of America February 2002 INSIDE ▲ Plate Boundaries to Politics: Pursuing Passions in Science, Sharon Mosher, p. 4 ▲ 2001 Medals and Awards, p. 14 ▲ Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, p. 36 ▲ Cordilleran Section Meeting, p. 41 Need On-Site Analysis? PORTABLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION THAT’S OUT OF THIS WORLD! hy send samples to a remote laboratory undergraduate laboratories. The low cooling Wwhen analysis is needed now. Whether it’s requirements and 110V operation makes it ideal on a drilling platform or a laboratory desktop, for portable power units. The cost-to-performance Rigaku’s Miniflex™ lets you identify compounds ratio is outstanding. Tight coupling of the x-ray immediately and locally. No expertise on site? source and detector provide amazing intensity at Rigaku’s software makes identification easy for low power. 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Image merges bathymetry predicted from gravity (Smith and Sandwell, 1997) Printed in U.S.A. using pure soy inks. with detailed bathymetry from shipboard cruises. (Southern third of data collected by Australian Geological Survey Organisation from R/V L’Alantate 2000 cruise (Bernardel et al., 2000); northern two thirds of data collected by R/V Rig Seismic cruise 124 in 1994 (Massell et al., 2000); note ship tracks in northern data. Imaging 50% Total Recovered Fiber courtesy of Geoscience Australia (Bernardel and Symonds, 2001; Meckel et al., 2001). 10% Postconsumer GSA TODAY, FEBRUARY 2002 3 GSA Annual Meeting, November 4, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts mental) research opens the door to Sharon Mosher, Department of Geological Sciences, other scientific developments that may University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA be more directly useful to the average person. Public support for better science education also is high (Fig. 1C). The public recognizes the need for a next INTRODUCTION and active. Numerous issues of impor- generation of highly skilled, well-trained Our passion for science, for scientific tance to us have become political issues: scientists and engineers. discovery, is our common bond as geo- evolution, natural-hazard planning, en- scientists: searching for answers to the ergy policy, climate change, environ- unknown, solving puzzles of the natural mental protection, research funding, and world, exploring the last frontier—scien- geoscience education, to name only a tific discovery. It is our passions that few. All of these and more have come drive us to the far reaches of the globe up before Congress or state legislatures to work under idyllic or harsh condi- this past year. Regardless of your views tions, that keep us up late at night on these issues, you have a stake in hunched over computers till we are their outcome. The following examples bleary-eyed and so stiff we can hardly are specific to the United States, but are move, or arguing for hours over beer also valid for other countries. long since warm and forgotten. We We have two primary reasons for be- come to GSA meetings to share the re- ing active. (1) We have knowledge that sults of our scientific passions with politicians need to make informed deci- friends, colleagues, students, and other sions: 50% of all bills that come before geoscientists, but I submit that we need Congress have a scientific or technical to broaden our audience to include pub- component; 81% of U.S. policy goals in- lic policy makers, the public, current and clude science and technology. Every future educators, the media, and other day, members of Congress make deci- scientists, as well as students and col- sions that impact the scientific commu- leagues. Here, I discuss using our scien- nity, yet few ever hear from scientists tific passions in different forums and before voting. (2) Many of us depend GSA’s role, starting with politics and on federal or state support for research ending with plate boundaries. funding or employment, either directly or indirectly. We have a vested interest PUBLIC POLICY in being politically active. Thomas Jefferson once said, “Science One common concern is scientific re- is my passion; politics my duty.” I find it search funding. Opinion polls show that inspiring that someone so well known the public supports spending money on for his political contributions fundamen- science; interest in science is at its all- tally viewed himself as a scientist. time highest level (Fig. 1A and 1B). The Figure 1. Results from public opinion polls. A: Although we need not become presi- public loves frontiers, recognizes the From Public Opinion Strategies, B. McInturff dent of the United States, now is a criti- economic benefits of research, and ap- and E.
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