PA13C:
Frontiers in Geoscience Funding and Innovation II

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Elizabeth A Landau, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Katherine S White, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Katherine S White, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Maeve Boland, American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA, United States and Erik R Hankin, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Erik R Hankin, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Federal R&D Funding: Trends and Projections
Katherine S White, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States
1:55 PM
 
New Patrons of Research
Marcia K McNutt, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, United States
2:10 PM
 
Trends in geoscience funding and governance.
Ira Bennett, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
2:25 PM
 
Is Crowdfunding Right for Me?
Daniel A Jaffe, University of Washington Bothell Campus, Bothell, WA, United States
2:40 PM
 
A Diversified Approach to Funding a Paleontology Program
Alton Dooley Jr, Western Science Center, Hemet, CA, United States
2:55 PM
 
Opportunities and challenges for collaborative funding with industry
John Francis Thompson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
3:10 PM
 
Success and Failure in University-Based Startups
Jonathan Dehn, Peter Webley and Keith W Cunningham, V-ADAPT, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States
3:25 PM
 
Is Privately Funded Research on the Rise in Ocean Science?
Margaret Spring, Monterey Bay Aquauium, Monterey, CA, United States, Sarah W Cooksey, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover, United States, John A Orcutt, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, Steven E Ramberg, National Defense University, Washington DC, United States, John E Jankowski, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States and Claudia Mengelt, the National Academies, Washington, DC, United States
 
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