rick++ wrote:
On Apr 16, 9:15 am, Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote:

What would they do with more money? Build bigger walls against us
kooks? Besides, if it came to a choice I'd get rid of ...

I can think of lots of things. I guess the question is whether the
feds want to
retain their internal center of expertise (USGS) or outsource it to
universities.
The NSF buget has a healthy 13% increase in geoscience R&D.

I'd rather they keep it inhouse where the people can watch the politics,
and the studies are done by professionals. Too much NSF money is used to
fund graduate students, where the actual boots on the ground work is being
done by inexperienced technicians, often under the supervision of someone
who is not operating in their major field of expertise.

At least with the USGS, the technicians and scientists have some
experience and training, and the taxpayers have oversight.