Here's a recent distressing development. The University of Wyoming is facing an $18.3 million budget cut. Of particular concern to the readers of this blog will be:
As ReBecca says, the museum's public outreach and research are top quality, and it would be a tragedy for this to be lost. Wyoming is one of my favourite states in the US, and I feel tremendously sad that it is facing cuts, but most devastating is the loss of the Geological Museum. It's in Laramie, as in the Laramide Orogeny - doesn't a site like this demand somewhere the geologically minded can go to find out about the area?
I am sure there are further plans in the works, and troops will be mobilised (metaphorically of course, although literally could be interesting...). In the meantime, however, you can sign this petition, repost it on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, everywhere you can. There are also some addresses for your correspondence listed. If anyone has any further tips, please post them. And any pertinent links will be gratefully accepted.
This is, sadly, one of the first casualties of the increasing global desire to restrict funding to only science that is deemed economically profitable. Science for the sake of increasing our knowledge of the world in which we live is clearly not a priority for any administration.
In total, 10 units will see employees terminated: [...] the geology museum will lose two...Which means the director of the University of Wyoming Geological Museum, good friend Brent Breithaupt, and the secretary will both lose their jobs.
As ReBecca says, the museum's public outreach and research are top quality, and it would be a tragedy for this to be lost. Wyoming is one of my favourite states in the US, and I feel tremendously sad that it is facing cuts, but most devastating is the loss of the Geological Museum. It's in Laramie, as in the Laramide Orogeny - doesn't a site like this demand somewhere the geologically minded can go to find out about the area?
I am sure there are further plans in the works, and troops will be mobilised (metaphorically of course, although literally could be interesting...). In the meantime, however, you can sign this petition, repost it on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, everywhere you can. There are also some addresses for your correspondence listed. If anyone has any further tips, please post them. And any pertinent links will be gratefully accepted.
This is, sadly, one of the first casualties of the increasing global desire to restrict funding to only science that is deemed economically profitable. Science for the sake of increasing our knowledge of the world in which we live is clearly not a priority for any administration.
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