CEDAR email: SPA Advocacy Committee requests community help

[Barbara Emery]

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SPA Advocacy Committee requests community help.
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 From SPA Committee <spacomm at ucar.edu> (will go to Maura Hagan).

Dear Colleague:

As recently announced - see 
ftp://igpp.ucla.edu/scratch/aguspa/volume20_2013/vol20no050 - the
Space Physics & Aeronomy (SPA) Section of the American Geophysical Union has 
formed an SPA
Advocacy Committee, tasked with advocating the scientific and other benefits of 
heliophysics
research to key stakeholders.  A fairly obvious strategy involves strengthening 
connections
with House and Senate members of the respective CJS (Commerce, Justice, and 
Science)
Appropriations Committees (and their staff).  The members of these Appropriations
Committee come from various states (see lists at
http://appropriations.house.gov/about/members/commercejusticescience.htm and
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/sc-commerce.cfm ), and each should be 
particularly
receptive to advocacy from individuals that have a connection to his/her home state.

Now, it is rather straightforward for the SPA Advocacy Committee to identify 
individuals
that WORK in particular states, but it is less straightforward to identify 
individuals
who have other connections to these states (for example, individuals who have 
graduated
from universities in those states). Therefore, I have a simple request - if, 
after reviewing
the appropriations committee membership, you believe that you have a meaningful 
connection
with one of the states represented on its membership, please sent me a short 
e-mail at:

spacomm at ucar.edu

indicating the nature of the connection.  For graduates, indicate the 
university(ies) from
which you hold degrees and the years in which these degrees were earned.

Similar emails are going out to the GEM, SHINE, and SolarNews communities, as 
well, so if you
receive multiple requests, you need only respond to one request as the Advocacy 
committee will
be coordinating responses.

Thanks in advance,

Maura Hagan (spacomm at ucar.edu)

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