[Shine-participants] Congressional Visits Day

Benjamin Chandran benjamin.chandran at unh.edu
Wed Jan 28 21:37:19 EST 2015


(From Gordon Emslie and Ian Cohen)

SPD Members Needed to Volunteer for Congressional Visits Day!

Each year the AAS brings members to Washington, DC to participate in Congressional Visits Day (CVD), an event organized by the Science-Engineering-Technology Working Group (SETWG) to gather scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, and technology executives in the nation’s capital to raise visibility and support for research in science, engineering, and technology. This year’s CVD will be held Tuesday-Wednesday, 17-18 March 2015.  Both days requiring full-day commitments, about 8 am to 6 pm, and business attire is required.

The AAS aims to select at least 15 volunteers who represent a balance among location, career stage, and experience. They especially encourage graduate students to volunteer.  The AAS will cover the majority of travel expenses for volunteers selected to participate. Sign-ups are open now through 5:00 pm EST on Tuesday, 3 February 2015, so the fuse is relatively short.

Obviously, we want solar/heliophysics research to be well represented in this event.  The SPD Public Policy Committee would therefore like to invite you to volunteer, by signing up using sign-up form at http://aas.org/content/congressional-visits-day-2014-sign-form <http://aas.org/content/congressional-visits-day-2014-sign-form> .  Note that you’ll need to sign in to aas.org <http://aas.org/> using your AAS username and password to submit the form.

Selected members will be notified by the AAS by 10 February 2015.  They will travel to Washington, DC, to participate in an all-day seminar on how to communicate effectively with policymakers, followed by a full day of meetings with Capitol Hill and/or White House staff. The pre-briefings will cover both astronomy-specific and more general science-policy issues, with the latter organized by SETWG. During the two weeks prior to your time in Washington, the AAS will also have a series of informational pre-briefings via the Web and/or teleconference, and we expect that a teleconference will also be arranged with selected volunteers and the PPC members.

Please consider contributing your time and talents to this very worthwhile event.  And a reminder – given next Tuesday’s deadline, the sooner, the better!

Gordon Emslie, Chair, on behalf of the PPC 
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